Setting aside questions of belief - for the record, I’m still where I was at the time of What the Bleep, which is to say between noncommittal and the far side of skeptical - Peaceful Warrior works surprisingly well as an engaging story with two strong central performances. Possibly, I was simply relieved to find a well-crafted, well-acted film and not another amateurish scattershot meditation like What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004).

Alas, I was sorely disappointed.īut I found Victor Salva’s film a good bit better than I had been led to suspect. The marquee in front of the Fine Arts Theatre in downtown Asheville claimed that Peaceful Warrior would be “life changing,” so believing in the concept of truth in advertising, I walked in and announced to the folks there that I had come to have my life changed - and that if this did not happen and I did not learn how to levitate to the top of a gas station (as I’d heard Nick Nolte does in the film), I was going to be sorely disappointed.

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