touching, great and deserving any kind of prize! A masterpiece!

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2005)

It's really difficult to find any kind of words to describe this film greatness. What first seems to be a conventional boxing plot turns into an incredible, brilliant and devastating movie. Devastating is perhaps the right adjective to tell about the life experiences here handled. It also shows fight sequences but it's not about boxing at all, it's about second chances and love and also meditates on death, friendship and life failures. It's impossible not to be impressed with the grandness of the lead's performances and in particular with the level of perfection achieved by Clint Eastwood. The moving and emotional finale makes the audience wordless and breathless. Don't you dare miss this masterpiece!