10 out of 10

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2006)

Yes folks this ones about as good as it gets.
There are story's within story's..heartstrings to be tugged, funny-bones to be tickled and that uplifting feeling that something with this much sentiment can only provide.
SEE IT! Just to counter(pardon the pun) 'the unemployed critic', i actually found the boxing scenes quite refreshing, anybody who has ever boxed, even anybody who watches a lot of it will be able to tell you that frantic is what boxing is, you do wear them while giving them! the scenes to me felt authentic...no one man taking what might seem 25 consecutive clean shots but still on his feet, no one man fresh as a Daisey come rnd 15....if you want rocky thats fine(but it isn't anything like real) and if you want the simplicity *see amateurish* style of a million dollar baby, that's fine too(though the movie should possibly be about amateur boxing...or female boxing), but for me this reflected the era and style of the times........