Good start, but then it gets ruined

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

1. Tiger Ali-Singh Vs. Gillberg - I never liked, how they mock real Goldberg. Unnecessary match. 5/10 2. Viscera/The Acolytes Vs. The Brood - Very good triple tag match. Bradshaw pinned Christian 8.5/10 3. Steve Blackman Vs. Droz - Totally ordinary match. 6.5/10 4. Mideon Vs. Kane - Dq ending, weak match 5.5/10 5. Tori Vs. Nicole Bass - 10 Seconds squash 5/10 6. WWF European Title Match: X-Pac Vs. Champ-Shane McMahon - Shane retained with a help. 7/10 7. Billy Gunn Vs. Mick Foley - Mr. Ass pinned Mick Foley? Why Foley had to always job, even if he's better wrestler than almost all of his opponents 6/10 8. Triple Threat World Heavyweight Title Match: Taker Vs. HHH Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - Austin scored omt, this time over HHH. 8.5/10

The tag team ladder match was born. Triple H finally got his one on one PPV match for the WWE Title, the Rock took revenge on a nasty Englishman and a 70+ year old woman became the Women's Champ on this terrific return by the WWE to their very best PPV form.The big event going into the PPV was British Bulldog's interference in the Rock's title match with Triple H at the UK only Rebellion event. Rock would face Bulldog here looking for a measure of revenge. This left Austin as the No.1 contender.The night began with the Godfather pinning Mideon despite the interference of Viscera to win a terrible match. This was followed by another poor match which saw Ivory lose the WWE Women's Championship to the 78 year old Fabulous Moolah. THis was followed by another average match which saw Hardcore and Crash Holly defeat the New Age Outlaws by DQ after Gunn performed the fame asser on a steel chair.Next up came the first memorable match of the night as Jeff Jarrett, in his final WWE match, dropped the Intercontinental Championship to Chyna in a Good Housekeeping match. This was basically a hardcore match using kitchen implements and cleaning tools. Jarrett knocked Chyna out using the championship belt, but referee Teddy Long refused to count the pin because an IC Championship is not a household implement. Jarrett the assaulted Long, allowing Chyna to smash Jarrett with his own guitar (which I would hardly call a household implement either) and pick up the pin. Chyna became the first and only woman to win the IC Championship. Jarrett therefore took an unwanted place in history as the first male to lose a major WWE title to a woman. He would have both Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero for company by the time WrestleMania 2000 rolled around. Jarrett has been widely ridiculed by the WWE since leaving and starting the unsuccessful TNA promotion and his blind faith in Vince Russo, but I thought he was a decent worker and the WWE thought enough of him to give him the IC Title on 8 different occasions, and was professional enough here to lose to a woman on PPV while working out of contract. Two sides to every story they say...Fun match too.Next match saw the Rock challenge the winner of tonight's WWE Championship match to a title match at Survivor Series immediately after making short work of the British Bulldog. Triple H clobbered the Rock with a sledge hammer for his troubles and "The Great One" left the ring on a stretcher.Next up saw one of the most important matches in WWE history, the first ever tag team ladder match. the contestants Edge and Christian and the Hardyz. The match came about as the culmination in a month long storyline which saw the former Mrs Goldust Terri Runnels put her services up for grabs in a best of five series. They won two matches each and so the contract for Runnels services was put into a briefcase and hung above the ring. No one had ever seen anything quite like this in the WWE or WCW and it was easily the best match of 1999 and started a memorable run of ladder matches involving the two teams and usually the Dudleyz as well. Jeff Hardy eventually grabbed the briefcase and the Hardyz had won the services of Terri Runnels. From a career point of view all 4 had achieved considerably more. Three of them would go on to become world Champions in the WWE and the fourth certainly had his high points as well.Next match saw Val Venis defeat Mankind for no apparent reason, countering the mandible claw into a pin attempt.Next match was a four corners elimination match won by X-Pac. Others involved in order of elimination were Bradshaw, kane and Faarooq. Entertaining enough match, but probably went too long before the first pin.This brings us to the main event, in which Triple H defeats Steve Austin to retain the WWE Title. This was a typical main event for the time period. Vince McMahon was then in a rivalry with Triple H and stopped him from using the Sledge hammer he had used to take down the Rock earlier in the night. Triple H gets busted open, but regains the ascendancy, causing the Rock to come to the ring with the sledgehammer Triple H had used on him earlier. Guess McMahon either gave it to him or just casually left it backstage where anyone lying on a stretcher nursing broken ribs and bleeding internally (all storyline folks) could pick it up and run down to the ring to take revenge on the man who had hurt him. Anyway, his vengeance didn't quite go to plan, the Rock accidentally taking out Austin and then eating a pedigree. Triple H pinned Austin, who then brawls with him into the parking lot, only for new IC Champion Chyna to save the day and get Triple H to safety in a limo.So there you have it, slow start building to a brilliant tag match and an entertaining main event. Easily the best PPV show of the year, apart perhaps from the excellent UK only show also called No Mercy, which occurred in May. We seem to be building nicely to a Rock/ Triple H feud for the belt, and between Jericho, Angle and the new ECW guys, there seems to be a lot of fresh talent there ready to take off. No to mention guys like Rock (as a good guy anyway), Big Show and Triple H who are still relatively new to the main event.

Without a doubt, the Tag Team Ladder match here was arguably the greatest feat to ever grace the eyes of WWE's faithful fans. Flying about, dominating one another and destroying themselves, the match without a doubt blew every other event on the card right out of the water, putting both teams of Edge & Christian, and the Hardy Boyz (in particular, Jeff, who put by far the most effort into the match) on the map. The latter helped to revive tag team wrestling, this being the first stepping stone to do so.Looking back at this one match, I wonder to myself "where did tag team wrestling go wrong?"The answer is simple: The Hardy Boyz split, and this match here is enough of a reason why they never should have done so.

I used to love UK events until I began to notice that they managed to get gradually worse over time. This is the a nice improvement over the 1998 Mayhem PPV which was average to say the least. There is one rule that must be observed in UK exclusive events however; the can be no major story twists or even developments... this PPV is meant only for exhibition.One final note is that this PPV has its own narrative, much more than most PPV's, basically the dominance of an evil force against its enemies, culminating a deceive battle at the end.Gillberg VS Tiger Ali Singh (winner)- 4/10 The opening match was the usual novelty. The Goldberg novelty is actually well done and this is probably the only ever match that is ended by a neck-breaker without outside interference. All in all a crap match saved by a comical gimmick.The Brood VS Viscera and the Accoytes(winners)- 9/10 My favourite match on the card, though I could not help but notice that Edge is so lean here compared to the Rated R gimmick. The layout of the match is well thought out, the Brood do manage to keep to the concept of using speed to gain an edge. One thing is noticeable, the crowds is quiet, really quiet for the most part which is strange for a WWF/WWE event. This match is pretty much a traditional tag match with the smaller face isolated for most of it. Of course the desperately needed tag is made and all hell breaks loose. Mideon makes his in ring debut for the evening delivering a so so DDT to the outside, rolls him in for a convincing Clothesline from hell from Bradshaw.Droz VS Steve Blackman(winner)- 5/10This is a passable mid-card match with little to jump up and down for. Kane(winner) VS Mideon 5/10A lapse in the Mid-card was inevitable and this was it, Kane is faster and stronger than Mideon and it was only a matter of time before Mideon is seemingly beaten. The mass run in from the corporate ministry was predictable here, X-PAC comes in to save the day. Nichol Bass(winner) VS Tori 7/10Sable appears for her match but speaks of a bad cough that is keeping her from wrestling, in her place the female body builder Nicole Bass. This is the second gimmick match of the evening and is actually shorter, the choke slam was good but could have been better but good enough to get the job done.X-PAC VS Shane McMahon(winner)8/10An entertaining and possibly better rematch from Wrestlemania XV. The highlighs package before hand is very good and the match action is of a very nice pace. Shane was not know for in ring ability back then but it is clear that he has received a great deal of good training. Anyway, Triple H and Chyna get involved here and aid Shane in retaining the title.Mankind VS Billy Gun(winner)- 7/10Mankind was out earlier in the night basically brown nosing the audience, this was actually in my opinion to raise the popularity of Foley in order but make Billy Gunn less well liked, helping his heel turn. Moments before the match the Ministry of Darkness attack him and damage his leg. Of course Mankind fails to make it to the ring at first, Billy Gunn now tries to get the match thrown out and claim victory, further aiding his heel push. Mankind eventually makes it to the ring... and then out of it as the two battle outside the ring. As predicted this match is dominated by Gunn working the leg of Mankind. This never works however and Makind takes control even though it is now clear that Billy Gunn is the scheduled winner. The prediction is correct when Gunn hits the Fame-asser onto a chair for the victory.Steve Austin (winner) VS Triple H VS The Undertaker- 8/10 This is the main event for the PPV, by the way I should mention that this match is no DQ (Austin will surely win now). I say Austin will win because back then the WWF would use the same match layout for every main event and this is not different. This fight begins on the ramp. Austin manages to hold his own against a unified Triple H and the Undertaker, amazingly these two tough men seem to be easily subdued during this part of the match. It takes a good few minutes for the match to get to the ring and the tide begins to turn on Austin. And what a surprise Undertaker and Triple H fall out (like that was never going to happen). So while those two fight each other Austin call rest up a little, of course based on my rule written at the start of this view Austin is the winner here so it is just a matter of time. And the time comes as the corporate ministry head to the ring followed by the disgruntled opponents from earlier. Undertaker disappears in the scuffle (in a similar fashion to the inaugural brawl at Invasion) and does not appear again. Tirple H and Austin are left, which means a stunner and a 'shock' victory against all of the odds. X-PAC joins Austin and Hebner in the ring and toast the victory.All in all the best UK event since Summerslam 1992!