This won movie of the year?????

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2007)

Unbelievable that this type of movie would win so many awards. I would never recommend this movie to anyone. The content was as depressing as depressing can get. And many parts of the movie were UNREAL; they didn't ring true. It was contrived dialogue and inappropriate emotions.
Let's start with boxing. Boxing is a brutal sport and how anyone can get excited about people knocking the crap out of each other and risking serious injury is beyond me.
Then the entire second part of the movie was about the fallen champ becoming a bedridden vegetable. Depressing all the way to the end! Of course, Clint wants to help her out of sheer guilt. So he somehow forces himself to pull the plug despite any legal consequences and despite the fact she IS conscious. Unreal. Didn't buy it for a minute.
I also didn't buy her family. There are redneck hillbillies and then there are just people with absolutely no moral fibre, good judgment or sensitivity in their body. Her ENTIRE family was the latter. Nobody's entire family is that bad.
Piece of contrived, depressing art is all this movie was. And I like Clint. My friend's Irish old dad is a dead ringer for him.