Russell Crowe's third Oscar coming up!

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2005)

Russell Crowe's stunning Maximus won him a deserved Oscar, then he won another one in Ron Howard's "A Beautiful Mind", and now Crowe and Howard has teamed up again and he's got all the odds to strike an Oscar again! Crowe being a down-and-out boxer that lives with his family under the depression of the 30ties, get's a million-to-one chance to earn some money in one fight again, and this is the start in one of the most amazing career comebacks ever...
Russell Crowe acts simply amazing, he hasn't been as good as this since is he did "Gladiator". You really get sympathy for the guy, a former great winning boxer that only because of the depression falls behind and looses everything he's got. Renee Zellweger does probably her best performance as an actress as his wife, and topping the mountain of glorious movie-making comes Paul Giamatti as Crowe's loyal and good-hearted coach. So, here's a brilliant boxing movie that truly breaks a bit of your heart while it's rough in it's boxing business.
Clint's "Million Dollar Baby" is better, but it doesn't mean that CINDARELLA MAN falls behind, not at all - it's just as a perfect piece of drama motion picture that you can't avoid it.
CINDARELLA MAN is the early on Oscar-challenger this year, and it's heading straight up. Going for the knockout.