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Sting: Moment of Truth

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STING: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (2004)
directed by George King
approximately 1 hour 25 minutes

This is the biographical DVD of pro-wrestler Steve Borden, best known to the world as "Sting". It deals with the difficulties of being a wrestling superstar and is made from an overtly religious angle.

The story starts with young (blonde) Steve in Southern California hitting the gym and bulking up. He accepts an offer to join a group of bodybuilders who are trying to break into the wrestling biz. Whittled out of this group is a tag team consisting of Steve Borden and Jim Hellwig, who later became famous as the Ultimate Warrior. The team starts out in Mid-South Wrestling before splitting up and Steve takes on the Sting persona in his solo career. 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.

The structuring of the movie is weird. 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. Then later on he is interviewed for the second time by a fanboy internet writer (probably the funniest scene in the movie). This interview is brief and again Sting continues to talk about the story after it is over. Also there are a lot of vingettes that go on for a long time. One that comes to mind is early on where we see memories of good ol sunny California and get the montage of beach bums and people riding their bikes on Venice Beach. Not a bad scene, but I felt like I was watching video from the Southern California Board of Tourism.

Another thing (which I admit is pretty nerdy of me to complain about) is that the wrestling clips are shown in an order that makes no sense. One of the first WCW clips shown is from like 1999 or 2000, later on a clip from 1997 is shown etc. A TNA clip is even shown between some of the WCW clips! There's a different scene where Steve is on the phone with his wife discussing a match he fought in earlier in the night. Wrestling fans will recognize this as Bash at the Beach 96, one of the most famous events in the history of WCW. This segment comes after a scene where Sting is being trained to drop from the rafters which didn't take place until the nWo storyline had taken off. 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.

The real focus here is on Steve Borden's spiritual redemption and non-Christians may not enjoy the DVD for this reason. There are some parts which may be of interest to the more secular wrestling fans, such as the direct questions about Starrcade 97 and the "nWo Wolfpack", which Steve describes as "the beginning of the end for WCW". I do wish that somebody had asked whether Borden ever considered signing with the McMahons though.

I've been a fan of Sting's since he debuted with the Ultimate Warrior as a tag team back in the UWF with Bill Watts. The movie is an awesome story and testimony chronicling Sting's life behind the scenes and off camera, particularly his inner struggles and conflicts and a a spiritual journey that led him to Christ and the restoration of his inner peace and family. A great movie, however, while I waws touched by the story, I was hoping for more footage of Steve Borden in action, maybe even a few matches...which would've been a 1st(a Christian wrestling superstar anthology)...but oh well, Sting's still the man. God Bless You,Bro. ~*REDD*~

I've always been a big fan of STING. This dvd helped me get a closer look at the real him, not just the wrestler.

I enjoyed it very much. I like that it had steve borden the actual sting play in it. It showed his career cool and showed he had problems. It did not go into detail about his problems but it showed who he was in a way only a movie can bring. It is in one of my top 10 favorite movie list. That is only because I am a die hard wrestling fan. I loved it

I saw the movie. I wasn't all that impressed, but his journey to return to Jesus, is commendable. God Bless Steve Borden and his family.

While I liked the movie... I liked the Book way better. The movie just didn't have enough detail about Sting journey to Jesus. If you collect Sting then get the movie, otherwise I wouldn't recommend ordering it.

I thought this movie would follow the typical wrestler theme...where they grew up, how hard it is to make it, great matches of their career. Shame on me.

I loved Sting in the late 80's and the 90's but this movie was awful.

At times I felt like I was watching SCinemax but it never got to the money shot. During certain parts I thought Sting was having an acid flashback but then stopped and realized that acid flashbacks probably aren't as poorly directed and produced.

Stinger, please stick to rastlin and leave wrestling docudrama to projects that get funded by WWE studios. On a side note, I will switch religions to have Sting perform my kids baptism or provide communion in costume with the offering on the tip of a black baseball bat.

I've seen better actin in tough actin tinactin.

Peace and Love....Peace and Love

This movie is great! It shows the power and the mercy of God in the life of anyone who will let Him enter into their heart (in many cases in our darkest hour or moment of greater need) and how, through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, we can all be saved.

I thought this was poorly done and wouldn't take a free ticket to see it again. Sorry Sting.

It's a very good movie. The story is interesting. The acting is solid. The message is powerful. The only thing I have a problem with the film is that the cover claims that Hulk Hogan,Kevin Nash,Ric Flair & other big stars are in this movie but in actuality it is just the stock footage of those stars. The wrestlers that actually appear in Sting's film are Abyss,Chris Harris,Lance Hoyt & TNA stars. Other then that,It's still worth seeing in the longrun. I give this movie a 9 out of 10.