Good Grief

Rating: 1/10 (21 November 2015)

Saw Jake on British talk show bigging up "Southpaw" and being a big JG fan was delighted to see it on the list of available films to watch on a recent flight to New York.The film (A boxing theme for us thickos) is now on my list of the top ten worst films I've ever seen. Mr. Gyllenhaal is a very talented actor but he and even Forest Whittaker can't do anything with this screenplay which is almost a carbon copy of (all the bad bits) of similar screenplays which won great acclaim 40 years ago (When it was fresh). A truly awful film which keeps you riveted because it's so bad you really expect a brilliant twist towards the end. Alas not. Inexplicable dialog and plot "I gotta be there" (Hero's 12ish year old daughter repeatedly insists) but there is no explanation why she gotta be there. Absolute tat. Brilliant film "Love and Mercy" saved my soul on on a 7 hour flight.