This is the biographical film of pro-wrestler Steve Borden, best known to the world as Sting. It deals with the difficulties of being a wrestling superstar and how becoming Christian save his soul. The movie is supposed to tell the story of Sting's life, but the movie has no clue about setting up time periods and when it does, the movie jump around. Example: the young child Steve Borden is watching wrestling that isn't from 1960s, but modern day starting his dreams. When he join World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s, a lot of the footage use to represent the company, comes from a company that wasn't formed until 2002 called Total Nonstop Action. When not trying to recreate scenes with TNA wrestlers, over use of smoke, and no crowds around the arena. The movie tries to steal a lot of the WCW footage that World Wrestling Entertainment now owns, but cropping the film footage so the WWE symbol isn't shown. If you aren't a wrestling fan then this stuff probably doesn't make a difference to you, but this DVD is targeted at a wrestling audience. They know what events happen when and with what company. Wrestling is also the closest thing we'll get to a real-life Rocky match, with larger-than-life drama and tension. Don't lie to wrestling fans, movie. The movie also overused montage of stock footage of anything to make the movie even longer. The movie has long periods of endless driving shots, and tourist like vignettes of sunny California full of beach bums that looks like the opening to Baywatch. One of the biggest faults of the film is having an actor play the Young Steve Borden whom looks nothing like him. He's shorter than the real life Borden, doesn't sound like Borden, and doesn't have the same build. Then the film has the nerve to cut from the actor, to stolen stock footage of young Sting wrestling. While still struggling to get by, Steve marries a girl named Sue who stands by him. The Sting character becomes a huge success, but with the success comes temptation and responsibility. One scene features heavy-handed symbolism showing Borden stumbling through an alley, with loose women, an alcoholic and a man throwing money all chasing after the superstar. Steve struggles to keep his marriage together and slowly becomes more spiritual by praying and attending Christian gatherings. Still, for someone who is just learning about this guy for the first time you are left feeling unfulfilled at the documentary, because you want to know what the hell happened to Sting to make him repent. It's never truly show it. The structuring of the movie is tell than show. For example when Steve first starts telling his story, he is talking to a newspaper reporter. When that interview ends, he continues telling the story with another interview for with a fan boy internet writer. This interview is brief and again Sting continues to talk about the story after it is over for some odd reason. Redemption movies do work in Hollywood, but the reason why most Christian movie fails is most people in the art are right-brained thinkers, visual communicators. Right brain thinkers love telling stories of the innovative individual overcoming their struggles, while priests and ministry leaders are primarily left-brained thinkers love to be quick to embrace group ideology in the form of religious dogma or political movement. It's hard for people to give up themselves. People love seeing other people overcome their problems by themselves. To give up, and seek help, it's a sacrifice that most people don't like to do due to their whole idea of building your own future. Our brains are designed to find meaningful patterns in the noise and chaos of life, and this movie doesn't give us enough noise. It's doesn't give us the meat of the story, and we don't eat it up. The bottom line is, you have to first have darkness in order to fully appreciate the light. Stories without conflict, darkness, are boring and uninteresting. Sting, please stick to wrestling and leave wrestling docudrama to projects that get funded by WWE studios

Just wanted to point something out to azrael979 then give my own person critique. Azrael979, you're wrong, you CAN in fact see WWE logos. I noticed it immediately when they showed the first bit of footage when he faced Flair. You can clearly see that they tried to shrink the picture, but they didn't do a good enough job because the tops of the W's are still clearly visible in the bottom left. Just wanted to let you know that you should maybe recheck things before you go accusing people of being wrong when you in fact are the wrong oneNow, on to my critique. I've been a wrestling fan for 20 years, and I've seen damn near every documentary that has come out. This, plain and simple, was the WORST i have seen. Let's start with the obvious of the acting was HORRIBLE. I caught myself rolling my eyes at many scenes wishing they would end. Next, the thing that bothered me a lot was that in the opening scene they introduce the show as being a WCW event, yet you can clearly see TNA plastered all over the place. Next problem was presentation. This movie jumps through a lot of periods of time, the least they could do is make it believable. The scenes of Sting's childhood don't reflect what things were like in the 60's. Not to mention, every scene that they show "Sting" driving when he first gets his break, there are recent car models all over the place. Then again when "Sting" is teaming with "Warrior", that match was supposed to take place in the 80's, yet if you look in the crowd you can see their modern clothing. One good example, is I saw a woman wear a number 27 Tennessee Titans jersey. Come on, time periods are a very basic and important part of a film. The last things that bothered me were simple. I feel like the filmmakers just found whoever was in the TNA locker room and whoever was on the street to portray characters. Sting is a rather tall guy. 6'4", yet the guy who plays him in this film looks like he may be 5'11" max. And they got Ryan Wilson to play "Warrior". Not a smart decision. The guy is close to 7 feet tall and towers over the actor playing Sting, when in actuality, the warrior is only 6'2" compared to Sting's 6'4". Really simple details like this will bother a true fan I think. All in all I will unfortunately have to say that this was a HORRIBLE attempt at a documentary. If you're going to document the career of such a historic and legendary figure in the wrestling business like Sting, I suggest making it look credible. Here's to hoping the WWE decides to make one about him that can take the sour taste out of my mouth from the TNA version

Although it took me quite a bit of time searching the discount DVD bins, I finally found a copy of this little bit of docu-drama. The movie is a thinly veiled commercial for Jesus. This low budget flick was just like Ted Dibiase's book "Every Man Has His Price" with the search for Christ over shadowing the story wrestling fans want to see. The wrestling in the film is wrapped around "The Message" in archive WCW clips and "re-created" matches that are done in an empty room with a wrestling ring or with TNA help. 1 match has Stinger confronting Abyss for the WCW World Title (WTF?). As good quality as a student film, but the legend of Sting deserves better.

This movie was great! Loved the music. The movie takes you back through Steve Borden's wrestling career and even includes his days tagging up with the man who would later become the Ultimate Warrior. And all the way through his career to this point. This movie showcases how it really is most wrestlers, outside of the WWE, most wrestlers have to travel all around just hoping for a break. This movie is a Christian movie, but not too overly Christian if you know what I mean. Really enjoyable! As a wrestling fan you will just love this movie as it shows highlights of the Stinger against Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, and even some updated footage against some of the NWA-TNA stars.