what a waste of a movie

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2005)

Around half way through the movie I started to realize that this really had nothing in it. The fight scenes sucked lasting a total of 30 seconds each. Hillary Swank becomes a good winning fighter and we see none of the growth which is supposed to be joining her success, I know that the house she bought for her trashy mom was aimed at this but failed miserably. The whole euthenasia (sp) scene with Eastwood putting Swank 'down' like her late father did to a dog (circa old yeller) was contrite and completely unrealistic, ie when a patient is hooked up to those machines the whole system goes crazy if they are shut down and the fact that it is 'murder' under our judicial system, save Oregon. The writers want us to believe that all of a sudden Eastwood is going to be living in the boonies somewhere for the rest of his existence when in fact he will be easily found, (he has been visiting her everyday since she was admitted) arrested, put on trial and then thrown in jail. And what's up with the whole last half hour anyway not a mention of what happens to the other boxer, it was a boxing movie right, well what the hell happened to her? Sorry but Hollywood just took a whole slew of 'blockbuster' type scenarios put them all together and viola Oscar. "Lets put a Freedman voice over, boxing, somebody running on the beach trying to 'prepare', Clint Eastwood being a tough ass, unaddressed societal issues all wrapped together with Hillary Swank's ugly ass face on it and see how much money we can rake in." Well screw you Hollywood, I dissent from your Oscar winner.