One dollar ending

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 2005)

This movie is great, if not spectacular in the first half, only to be very slow and predictable in the second-half. I think where this movie makes it points (and thus the high rating) is from the acting performances by Eastwood and Swank who are solid. Swank does an excellent job in her portrayal of a boxer in her early 30s, who Eastwood takes on as a student. I have to mention what I didn't like about the movie, enough people told you about the good points by now.
First off, there is no development of the characters Danger and Swaraylle (whatever the heck his name is, the black dude that freeman knocks out) they don't really serve a purpose other than comedic relief. The whole fight with Billie the Bear at the end is reeeediculous. OK, obviously they know she's a dirty fighter, they would have studied her at length before the fight.. So why the heck does Maggie turn her back on her, and even worse, WHERE IS THE REF?? At the very least, Billie The Bear would have been disqualified and fined, if not suspended by the WBF boxing commission. And the ending is too similar to what happened when Frankie was "sub" manager for Scrap. They needed to come up with something else, its too darn predictable. The last hour of the movie is just unduely depressing.. They needed to take a different turn on the ending. Anyway, its right there with Butterfly Effect- great first half, lousy ending 5/10