A near masterpiece that rocks your heart

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2005)

This movie is not a typical boxing movie.Thew script is perfect in a classic way,the actors are great and the surprise near the end hit your heart like no other movie has done in recent years.Clint Eastwood is a good storyteller in John Ford's tradition(many shots are like Ford's movies) but with modern themes and without obvious sentimentalism.(Ford used it sometimes,although did masterpieces like The Searchers, The grapes of Wrath or Stagecoach among many others).May the only failure of this great movie is the portrait of the girl's family (too obvious and manipulative for my taste),but this is a hell of good movie.Bravo for Clint,i'm only 22 years old ,but your cinema likes me much more than many young directors of today.