January would have been better

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2014)

Sylvester Stallone made another boxing movie but it's not Rocky 7. It's Grudge Match and Robert De Niro is Stallone's co star. The premise is two boxing rivals, Razor and Kid come out of retirement to have one final match.
How was it? It was alright, it could have been worse. The writer thinks frequent S bombs is funny and most of them were forced. There's some vulgar humor, only a little would have been better. Some of the jokes were forced, a huge deal or flaw. The grudge match was lame, it was lazy. The ending was abrupt.
The acting was good. De Niro's the best actor here not to my surprise and he didn't phone it in. Stallone may not be a great actor but he can act when he wants to which he did here. Rocky and Rambo are opposites and Stallone was good as both characters. Razor was like Rocky. Kid was rude, overconfident and womanizing. Kevin Hart plays Dante, a loud mouth fight promoter. He was funny and he reminded me of Chris Tucker who is funny also.
I liked the story. The grudge match allowed Razor and Kid to go back to their pasts. Razor reconnected with his ex girlfriend and Kid met his son and grandson. Maybe a lot of people found Razor's story boring. No one can say it's better than Kid's story. This movie is similar to Grumpy Old Men.
This movie was originally scheduled for January and it was pushed forward to December because the test score was high. Maybe that reason was false. I understand why the odd person thinks this is good. I will watch it again eventually, maybe I will laugh a little instead of barely. My hopes weren't high, I didn't think I would laugh out loud ten times or so. You could see this on the big screen but waiting for the DVD is better.