Well-Crafted But Ludicrous, Insulting Story

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2006)

GOOD NEWS - Interesting, right from the start....nicely filmed......an involving story with a female lead character you really care about with a fine performance by Hilary Swank, and the always-entertaining Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman as the male leads. The story, whatever one's view of the topic here, is well-crafted and certainly one you remember.
BAD NEWS - Talk about an agenda! Who produced this film? Dr. Kevorkian? Hollywood's Liberal agenda for this year must have been euthanasia because this picture, as good as it is, is not Acadamy Award Best Picture material. The championship fight scene, too, is ludicrous, in that the "bad girl," if this was real life, would have been disqualified - period: no if, ands or buts. And - having a priest say the "f-word?" Give me a break! There's an example of yet another liberal "agenda." - make a cleric look bad whenever possible.
OVERALL - A severely flawed film but definitely interesting and worth seeing if for nothing else than provoking a good discussion on and pros-and-cons of the main subject matter (which ain't boxing, folks).