Clint will never let us down!

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2005)

There's something that characterizes Clint Eastwood's films: he usually makes a nice movie out of a simple story. Anyone else would have converted Million Dollar Baby into such a TV Movie or something, kind of a "Karate Kid" mixed up with a moral conflict. Nevertheless Eastwood has a steady hand, he's tough when he thinks he has to, and he's spectacular when he thinks the story can afford it. Once again he plays the lead role: the cynical-skeptical-heartless old man unable to feel anything for anyone  till he finally does. Someone will say Clint Eastwood can only play one character; OK, maybe that's true: but he is the best playing it. Hillary Swank makes a great job, bringing to life that white-trash-boxer-aspiring (the first time she participates in such a nice project since "Boys Don't Cry").
A good movie as was to be expected if Clint Eastwood is behind and in front of the camera. And, why not, he resolves it courageously (there are some subjects that they don't want to talk about there in the United And Puritan States Of North America).
My rate: 7.5/10