Nothing can feel that real unless it is real.

Rating: 10/10 (11 September 2005)

I watched this movie today, as usual phenomenal performance by Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger.
I have never experienced this sense of reality, emotion as I did today. I felt as if I was watching the real James Braddock and Max Baer match and so was the rest of the crowd in the theater. I have never seen the crowd holding their nerve but this was really something different. Especially in the second half of the movie, the fight between James J. Braddock and Max Baer is pictured phenomenally. The crowd was dancing with ever punch that landed on Baer's face and suddenly got grim when Braddock got punched.
The movie is inspirational, motivational and a great mixture of love, sportsmanship and responsibility. Ron Howard, this man can visualize things. He had shown this in every part, every frame of the movie. The choice for the cast is ideal. Russell Crowe has presented the same Braddock as real. The whole cast has worked in congress which has resulted in such a sensational film.