This movie is more than just arm wrestling...it would have to be wouldn't it?

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2009)

Yes, if the movie was just arm wrestling it would be kind of hard to make the entire movie revolve around it and still be motion picture length. So how do you fill the rest of the time up, you add the touching story of a man trying to reunite with the son he left for his mother and grandfather to raise long ago. A plot straight from the lifetime movie channel that makes all the growling and yelling at the arm wrestling tournament all the more stupid. The saving grace of this movie is the rather good soundtrack. The music is good and saves this otherwise to sappy and overemotional movie. The arm wrestling tournament at the end is full of colorful characters, but they are not really delved into because we are busy trying to have the son driving to the matches to see his dad and they can have the sappy reunion. We get lots of arguing between father and son, mother and grandfather, grandfather and father this and that and we get a big migraine. Perhaps this is to better distract us from things that happen in the matches such as Hawks (Stallone's character) being in the perfect grid to face Bull Hurley in the final showdown or other strange occurrences like the fact Bull never seemed beaten at any time on his road to the finals. Of course, this type of movie is kind of Sylvestor's type is it not? He had Rocky and some other sports themed movie about wrestling that is not quite as well known. To bad he did not make more like that cop one he did with Billy Dee Williams, now that one was good.