Million Dollar Baby is all hype!

Rating: Null/10 (19 February 2005)

I can only imagine that the film industry and its critics feel that Clint Eastwood only has a limited time left on this planet, and deserves one last rave review before he goes to meet that big 'gun-slinger' in the sky. Million Dollar Baby is all hype! The movie is slow moving and predictable lacking any sign of an intelligent story line. If you have ever been involved in the Boxing scene you will know that there are plenty of interesting avenues to travel down for a really good story line; looking for this avenue Clint lost his way and found himself in 'Jerry Springer-land'! Yep! This movie is that believable! The fight scenes in this picture were as bad has those we have witnessed in the 'Rocky' movies and Eastwoods fake 'gruff' voice helped continue the misleading stereo-type of Boxing trainers. The thing that separates Eastwood's movie from Stallone's (particulary the first of the Rocky series)is the lack of empathy the audience can share with the characters.
Finally, what was the moral of this story? Girls with fat mothers in trailers should Box?? I sat this movie out until it's 'drawn-out' end, hoping that a referee would step in and save me from further punishment. No more awards for this movie please, give 'em to Jim Carey he deserves them!