Amazing sports drama since Rocky, the best!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2015)

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a sports boxing realistic Drama, ignore this review, as well. We'll both be better off.
Since new spin-off Rocky movie Creed (2015) was been released and I am against it for ruing and killing off my Rocky balboa character including all movies I decide to watch a Boxing Sports Drama movies. Southpaw was the first Boxing movie in 2015 I saw since Rocky. I am not a big fan of Jake Gyllenhaal and his movies, recently I just watched Nightcrawler (2014) and I hated that movie since everyone is praising it. But I did like Donnie Darko (2001), Jarhead (2005), Zodiac (2007) and Prisoners (2013). This movie surprised the hell out of me. What I mean with that, this movie was portrayed In realistic Boxing drama since Rocky about an human man's life. At times, you feel like you're watching a documentary on a real man's life. It's that much realistic. I had no idea that actors portrayed and acted so good, that it feel realistic to me. I am sorry if you don't agree with me, but I think this movie is miles away better than Creed. I love drama movies portraying a human's life a man's, boy's, girl's or woman's it doesn't matter as long the acting is good. In here the acting and portraying a human Boxing sports Drama is good and convincing.
This movie isn't masterpiece but it is so much good. I am also not a big fan of Antoine Fuqua movies but Southpaw become my favorite realistic Boxing drama movies alongside Rocky, Million Dollar Baby and Rocky Balboa. My favorite movies of Antoine are: The Replacement Killers (1998) and Training Day (2001), those two movies are good. Denzel Washington is my favorite actor. The actors everyone does a great job. Especially Forest Whitaker as coach Tick Wills, he was awesome and did a believable acting, I have ever seen. I still remember him from Bloodsport (1988) as Agent Rawlins. The man still can act and he made of 100 movies. Jake Gyllenhaal was amazing as always but so were Forrest Whitaker, Rachel McAdams, and the actress Oona Laurence who played the daughter. It had a great story focusing on dealing with grief, anger, and maturity as well as controlling your destiny and not letting your emotions overtake you. the fight scenes were well done as well. It was a little cliché but hey if it ain't broke don't fix it. The film focus more on one man's struggling trough hard time in life.
A World Light Heavyweight boxing champion loses everything after his wife was accidentally murdered. He loses his property, his self respect, respect from his fans, he loses his next fight, loses all money and the court takes him his daughter away and gives her to a social service, he may lose her forever. The man who was guilty for his wife's death walks free smiling and wins the title. This movie is about a hardest fight in the man's life. He has to fight against all odds. He need to get his daughter back and he needs to train and get's self respect including avenging his wife's death. The training sequence are awesome and I have never saw any training sequences in any movie not even the technique Billy was using in a movie like that. I only saw one technique different used in Rocky IV movie.
Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an adorable daughter (Oona Laurence) and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future riding on Tick's guidance and tenacity, Billy enters the hardest battle of his life as he struggles with redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.
That is the main basic plot and it is not all about boxing and fight, but it is about struggling life and his only living family member, his own daughter. I love this movie and gets a perfect 10 for me. Southpaw is an excellent boxing Sports Drama film from beginning to end. Give it a chance.
Southpaw is a 2015 sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, and Rachel McAdams. The film was released on July 24, 2015, by The Weinstein Company.
10/10 Grade: Bad Ass Seal Of Approval Studio: The Weinstein Company Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Naomie Harris, 50 Cent, Oona Laurence, Rachel McAdams Director: Antoine Fuqua Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, Peter Riche, Alan Riche, Antoine Fuqua, Jerry Ye Writer: Kurt Sutter Rated: R Running Time: 2 Hrs. 4 Mins. Released: July 24, 2015 Budget: $30.000.000 Box Office: $52,316,554