excellent work!

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2005)

Clint sure knew how to hit the audience unguarded.When I was watching the movie I was expecting an encouraging girl-dream-come-true story. But the ending was so astonishing and hurting.
The movie is great, Clint, Hilary and Morgan gave their top performance in that film while never overacted. The cast was simple and tense kinda helped the audience to focus on the main emotional interactions among the leads.
And Freeman's voice was graceful.
The story was conventional topics on boxing.But that was exactly what's so marvelous about this movie. They made a cliché into a touching masterpiece.There's a long time since a well-made movie came along.
There's one regret though. I think the mother's behavior was exaggerated a little bit and appeared unconvincing. The cold-hearted thing in the hospital was just too much for a mother...just a thought