Good in the beginning, Bad in the end.

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2005)

I still have a lot of respect for Clint Eastwood. He's a very accomplished actor of his time. When he did Million Dollar Baby, it was scraping at the bottom of the barrell. In this one he plays a boxing trainer who's on a guilt trip about his daughter. It never specifies what exactly he did to his daughter. Morgan Freeman's performance was the usual narrative state he's best known for. Hillary Swank plays a female boxer determined to achieve her dream of being a boxer. So she asks Clint Eastwood's character to train her, at first he's hesitant. I didn't like Maggie's trailer trash family, either.
It was good in the beginning when he was training her and bonding with her like she was his daughter, then once she finally achieved her dream, the boxer sucker punches Maggie and she becomes paralyzed. Then she protests by biting off her tongue. Plus, this movie sparked a lot of controversy about euthanasia, and the right to die. The best example of this was the Terri Schaivo case. Million Dollar Baby should not have won the Oscar. The Aviator should've won instead. Clint Eastwood as good of an actor he is, he could've done better. This whole movie could've been better. See one of his other movies instead. Stay completely away from Million Dollar Baby. It will just be a big disappointment.