A New Biopic on Mike Tyson Plays Patty-Cake With the Past
Ferocious performances aside, Hulu’s Mike misses a chance to add anything new to the fighter’s now-familiar tale.
Mike Tyson, played by Trevante Rhodes, and Don King, played by Russell Hornsby, before a fight with Evander Holyfield.
Photographer: Alfonso Bresciani/Hulu
Before writing that “there are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald should have met Mike Tyson.
Almost 40 years after he began a boxing career in which he became both the youngest heavyweight champion and the victim of the biggest upset in history, earned and lost more than a half-billion dollars, and served a three-year sentence for a rape conviction, Tyson’s celebrity has hardly dimmed. Despite our nation’s limited attention span, “Iron Mike” remains one of the most famous faces on the planet.