There Should Always Be Hope.

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 2015)

Whenever I decide to watch a mainstream movie, I always hope to get enough satisfaction, excitement and joy. Because I believe that the first goal of a movie is to entertain and give the feeling to you in a right way. I am or the general audience is not an academy jury member and "Southpaw" is not an artistically estimated movie neither.
I can tell that the movie has that stereotype motive blended all over in its structure.But like I said, I always try not be a smartypants like the audience who has nothing to do with film business and watches few films, criticizing them as same copies of each other. The work, effort of the crew and actors, writers and everyone else is always deserve respect in this business, unless they obey the rule of honesty and only if they avoid commercial concerns, crew, actor based self-entertainment motive, which means fooling the audience with trashy and slipshod work.
So, after I put all these elements on the consideration of my review, I found the movie satisfying. The film bases on a success story of a boxer (Billy Hope) who has a rugged up life comes from bottom, reaches the top, falls to the bottom and gets his throne again in the end. It seemed so familiar to you too. Yes, I know. However, sometimes you watch a movie even if you know what will happen from the beginning till the end. And yes "Southpaw" is a kind of these movies.The attraction mostly takes place in the mid part in this kind of movies. And every time it is the deciding part. The mid part (except the beginning and the ending) showed me some different dialogues, characters and motive of a boxer that I can call them unique in comparison with all time sport movie clichés, that every one of them's must have scenes lets call it.
Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his elder statesman coach Tick Wills (Forest Whitaker) maintains harmony and the depiction of their relationship got the best points from me. The two Star's performances is the biggest reason for the great harmonic relationship depiction for sure.
The other appreciative point from me goes to the physical pain and psychological pain blend's success. The both Billy's and Tick's sufferings from their miserable life and sharing that in a frame of a naive and honest friendship, Billy's remembrance of his orphanage years and his hard tries to prevent his daughter to end up like him until her adulthood, gives the feeling. And despite the Billy's story is more original and less stereotype than Tick's returning to professional Trainor life for just one match (Like many of the other sport movies) I felt sorry for him anyway, because I usually observed that in this kind of movies the returning trainer's arrogance still does exist and distance with his students stays stable. But as I said I felt sorry and pitied him maybe because of Forest Whitaker's fatherly performance and giving the soft-hearted courageous man image inside his huge and tough looking body.
For last words, I recommend "Southpaw" as a watchable movie without big expectations of a masterpiece. And it will a good choice to spend two hours if you have some spare time and you have nothing to do anything else.