Jim Braddock, Dr. Nash, Ron Howard really knows a lot of old people

Rating: 2/10 (19 September 2005)

Is very simple, this movie is about Jim Braddock (Russel Crowe) the famous "cinderella man" a boxer that everybody thought that he was done and suddenly he has a big shot and return to boxing.
Ron Howard really know how to make big budgets Hollywood films, this one is the Oscars type of film, but that doesn't mean that is a great movie, in fact it means that Ron has found the "formula". I mean, this, "The gladiator", and "A beautiful mind" all have the same elements: Russell Crowe is important, Russell Crowe is a shame, Russell Crowe is more important than before, the end.
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti are great actors and they demonstrate in this movie, solid acting really.
If you exchange Sylvester Stalone for Russell Crowe in any Rocky movie you will get "cinderella man" the difference is this is a real life story, exaggerated of course but in the end is a real life story.
I would recommend this film to those who don't really want to think to much about a movie and want to be entertain with exaggerated boxing and a good story.