Eastwood and Haggis make a good team.

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2005)

Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker. Written by Paul Haggis. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
Eastwood and Haggis make a good team.
Normally I don't care for Boxing movies like Rocky's 1-5 but I made and exception for Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby and later on Cinderella Man. The story is two men that own a gym when a troubled waitress Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank, a surprising bolster in the actress category) waltzes in their gym and wants to be trained by Frankie Dunn (Eastwood; also the director). After her plea for his help he gives in along with the co-owner Morgan Freeman. Who makes a good sidekick and helps make the movie more enjoyable. Even though the screenplay written by Paul Haggis (who will later go on to make Crash) was fantastic and one of the best boxing screenplays since Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin did Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull screenplay. Overall the movie had a great script with capricious dialogue along with just plain good acting on Eastwood, Freeman, and Swank's part. My final rating 10/10.