WOW! Who would have guessed? Well maybe the Academy did.

Rating: 10/10 (19 April 2005)

Let me start by saying I hate boxing and I had ABSOLUTELY no interest in seeing this movie at all, but my boyfriend dragged me to it. I wanted to hate this movie, really I did, but I just couldn't. After about 15 minutes I stopped sulking and actually watched it without thinking of it as a boxing movie. Though there was a lot of boxing involved it's not a boxing movie. It a movie about life decisions, love, regret, and ultimately death. I cried for the last 30 to 45 minutes of the movie and even my boyfriend cried a little. Although it was incredibly depressing it was one of THE BEST movies I have ever seen. I do suggest you sit down and watch it, but not alone and not without a big box of Kleenex.