One big joke...

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2005)

Is this one big joke I'm not in on? I can understand how people might like LOTR (although I thought the series was...boring), but Million Dollar Baby was just horrible. I don't think Eastwood could have jammed more over-used clichés in if he tried. Morgan Freeman played the same character he does in every movie these days (I actually laughed out loud when I heard he was nominated for an Oscar). The writing was awful, the acting was bad...so why did everyone like it??? Some brilliant "foreign films" have come out, but the award shows group them into one category...so we are left with pathetic attempts at cinema like this to celebrate.