gratuitously violent, especially regarding treatment of dogs

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2001)

This movie showed several scenes of the underground dogfighting world as a casual sidebar to the unlicensed boxing main theme. In one scene a guy, who you already know is a serious bad guy, is jabbing a stick in through the cage bars at a Pit Bull-type fighting dog which you can hear yelp, while the camera pans across to show the bloodied carcass of another dog who didn't survive the fight he was just put into, while the scarred victor stands nearby. All of this happens in a part of the movie which is supposed to be darkly humorous. It wasn't -- it was disgusting. Anything that portrays animals in this manner is revolting.