Well I saw it...

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2005)

If you want to see heart wrenching emotion, please tune into CNN sometime to check out the latest Tsunami disaster updates. There you can hear stories that really will break your heart. Maybe it's just all the emotion of the new year ( along with the fact that someone so gladly spoiled the movie for me before I saw it) but I personally found this movie to be dull, manipulative and uninvolving.
It reminds me of the time when I saw the Titanic and saw people around me crying, while I was glad that Leonard DiCaprio Died. I did cry when I saw Forrest Gump, but this, well it didn't leave me feeling anything, simply because there are too many plot holes.
I can't review this fairly, without going into some of the SPOILERS so here's A WARNING NOW
First off the acting was great, what more can you expect from Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood and Hiliary Swank.
But there are a lot of things that just don't make sense.
One. Frankie (Clint Eastwood) is having bad troubled relations with his daughter who never opens any of the letters he sends. AND YET the cause of the bad relationship is never explained. IT JUST IS. I thought that they might go into his psyche as to why he feels the way he does but the movie never really develops this.
Second. AFTER the bell rings, Maggie goes back into her corner and then gets decked in the neck, paralyzing her from the neck down. Now, the problem was is that the dirty fighter was declared the winner! WTF. In real life, she would have been disqualified because the bell ALREADY RANG before the punch was thrown. Maggie would be declared the champ, even though, she could never defend it. But instead she loses.
Third. Maggie decides she wants to die by way of Euthanasia. It is to be a "peaceful death". Okay, so first Frankie takes off her mask. She can't even breath without it, wouldn't it cause her to sputter, choke and die first. But instead she is happy. So he then pulls the plug, which would have caused all her body organs to die. And then, sticks the needle in her arm killing her. Seems like they should've got it the other way around. They should have stuck the needle in her and let her die, before unplugging the machine and pulling off the mask.
Oh and Morgan Freeman is a dummy in this movie. He doesn't do much in the way of plot. He explains to the audience in these fancy montages that Maggie just keeps getting better. It would be nice to actually SEE her getting better instead of this quick change from waitress to champion.
And then we're supposed to cry when she dies. I'm sorry, I'd rather watch Forrest Gump all over again.