Conor McGregor: Notorious

Fans will find this outing a bit old-hat, and newbies will probably be wondering what the fuss is all about.

... cringeworthy fluff piece...

[Conor McGregor's] never less that watchable, but the film is disappointingly one-sided.

Fans will get a brutal blood rush from the fight footage, but this brand hagiography is mercilessly one-sided.

No allowances are made for dissenters because dissenters are not invited. Slickly edited, noisily scored, it will do perfectly well for those who already know they're going to like it.

If you're not a fan of McGregor, there's no real story here for you to get invested in.

Eschewing interviews and talking heads for a fly-on-the-wall approach, Fitzgerald submerges the viewer in McGregor's ambition.

The movie does a good job of providing highlights of each fight that tell the story of what went on in the Octagon, but as someone who's already seen these fights, it reinforces the biggest question at the heart of this movie: Who is this documentary for?

Unfortunately, an unseemly proportion of the running time of Notorious is wasted by its constant feeding of McGregor's monstrous ego.

"Though it doesn't dig deep, Notorious: Conor McGregor is exciting, energetic and occasionally revealing..."