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Rating: 1/10 (6 October 2015)

Wow, I was not expecting this. I normally use IMDb as a bench mark prior to watching films if i am torn between 2, I am often surprised when watching a low budget low rated film how good they can be, with some good unexpected performances and story lines.
This brings me to 'Southpaw', a bad surprise, how a film can be rated so highly having so many holes in the story line. A world champion light heavy weight boxer that over the course of what felt like a week lost his title, his wife, all of his possessions and his daughter. Sure having 'fiddy' as promoter may not be the smartest idea but surely even he could have managed his money/assets so he had something. No equity in his property, owned no possessions, no savings. Christ look at his story Im sure he could have had a couple of TV interviews to raise some cash rather than living in the gym. I don't live in America but the system seems harsh that after the death of her mother a child can be removed from her family in the same week, and shoved in an Oliver like orphanage. Oh and when he gets his daughter back they say something along the lines of 'you did a great job of turning your life around', he did literally nothing to turn his life around, he was a champion living in a mansion now he lives in a squat and has no food to feed her.
The amount they have tried to shoe horn into this film is astounding and having already made the film so unbelievable as a concept why did they not shove more in, an alien invasion, the odd shoot out, an x wing or how about a scene where Jake and Forrest race each other on the beach using it as a gauge of how his training is coming along. Or maybe even better a cameo from Clubber Lang, maybe he could be the trainer in the sequel.
I have about 10 more gripes about this film if people have found this helpful I will add more..