Its a gut punch to the heart

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2019)

Million Dollar Baby stars Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, and Clint Eastwood and is also directed by Clint Eastwood. The film follows a veteran boxer trainer who reluctantly decides to train an inexperienced female boxer and along the way they begin to develop a surrogate father and daughter relationship. I would describe this movie as the Shawshank Redemption of sports movies and it even has Morgan Freeman as the narrator. Hilary Swank stars as Maggie Fitzgerald a waitress who knows nothing about boxing but decides to pursue it because she finds something that she is passionate about. Million Dollar Baby treats Maggie Fitzgerald as a human being that we can all learn from her and inspire to become like her. She's not doing this for money or fame, but instead does it for her love of boxing and also to help her greedy selfish family. Even though they clearly have no love for her, which increases our love and affection towards Maggie making her a great role model for everyone. The movie also shows us that Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood are the same person. They both are haunted from their past and are also looking for a shot of redemption with Clint Eastwood reluctantly helping Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman deciding to help another aspiring young boxer. In a way it almost seems like Clint Eastwood has a split personality with Morgan Freeman being his logical side. Even though this may be a sports movie and being a shot of redemption for the three main characters it's not your typical sports movie as the last thirty minutes are an emotional roller coaster ride. In conclusion Clint Eastwood directs a knockout film that felt like Clint Eastwood reached out and ripped my heart out from my chest that left me in shock. I'm still in shock that I ask myself do I watch it again, but I don't know if I can because the movie is fantastic, but brutal that I don't know if I can do it. So to wrap this up, Million Dollar Baby is a fantastic film with great performances, dialogue, to just about anything I can think of.