Big emotions, nice fights... but where is the value?

Rating: 2/10 (11 November 2005)

It is so sad that movies like this one win so much attention. Why? Is it because Clint Eastwood did the job or is it because of the more common phenomena of the Americans' humble minds? The plot is so simple and everything in this movie is cliché and overkill - exaggerated extremities in all the simple characters. Everything seems so made up and so so so sad and dramatic that it just isn't what it should be: a story about a female boxer and her trainer. Watching the movie I was drown in all the "strong" emotions that, in the end, it just didn't feel right. It is not right because you will never encounter these bittersweet black and white feelings in real life but just in a Hollywood movie like this one. It was so extremely serious and dramatic that it even seemed to be a masochistic parody. The closer it came to its end the more often I thought "Come on, ANOTHER BAD THING?" until the absolute climax was reached. For me, that was the suicidal part of the story. The first half was quite nice but then it just decrease until an absolute surreal and spoiling overkill end came. What is the value of this movie? It didn't "move my mind"; and moving a mind is, in my opinion, the crucial emergent element of a good movie. Sorry, but this one is just selling primitive American-style cliché. Exactly 2 points for the two things that this movie could convey: strong emotions and nice fights.