Boxing Fan's Dream: Rocky vs Raging Bull

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2013)

I saw "Grudge Match", starring Sylvester Stallone-The Expendables movies, the Rocky movies; Robert De Niro-Last Vegas, Raging Bull; Kim Basinger-Cellular, Never Say Never Again; Kevin Hart-This is the End, Soul Plane and Alan Arkin-Argo, Freebie and the Bean.
This is a boxing fan's dream; Rocky Balboa vs Jake LaMotta, aka, The Raging Bull. Sylvester and Robert are basically playing their two iconic characters and show what might happen if they had a fight in their older years. They play boxers that had two matches against each other in the 1970's, each one winning a fight. The third tie-breaking match never happened for various reasons-which you do eventually discover. Kim plays a love interest that was involved with both of them, at one time, and had a child with one of them. Kevin plays the son of a boxing promoter that is now trying to coordinate the new match and Alan is Sylvester's old friend/trainer. There is comedy, with Kevin handling the majority of it, but there are also jabs at the Rocky and Raging Bull characters, especially in the training scenes. Also, at their advanced ages, each of the boxers have problems, anywhere from being blind in one eye to womanizing and having a drinking problem. For all of the UFC fans, there is a cameo of Chael Sonnen that is funny and there are a couple of scenes as the end credits start-nothing at the very end. It's rated "PG-13" for violence, language, and sexual content-no actual nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 53 minutes. If you are a fan of any of the actors or boxing, you will probably enjoy this one. I did and I would buy this on Blu-Ray.