Step back too far, you ain't fighting at all

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2005)

Just saw it.
So it's like Snap, Crackle and Pop put together in One Box, huh? Frankie the ******* pagan...
I loved how Eastwood had true bitterness in him when he agreed to train Maggie. Everything she needs to know, and then she finds a manager to make a million dollars.
Everyone was cheering on Freeman as he beat the crap out of the bratty African American boxer who was leaving "Danger", the noisy kid hapless and bloodied all over the face.
And even with what happened to Maggie, I was amazed of the audacity she still had, and she didn't lose her sense of humor. "Fly there, drive back".
A nice and insightful commentary with Freeman's voice over. Sometimes, to win a fight, you gotta step back. But step back too far, you ain't fighting at all, says Freeman in the scene where Frankie genuflects and asks forgiveness for what he can't be able to do.
Worth watching. And hey, this movie's edited on an NLE. Telecined and cut on an Avid Film Composer.