Dismal

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2011)

The bottom line-I just didn't care about anything that happened in this movie, nothing.
Why? Dicky- a has been drug addicted boxer was terribly portrayed here. We see Christian Bale jump out of a top floor window several times into a garbage dumpster to avoid his mother finding out about his drug taking, (which we never see apart from one time). We never find out jack about his drug addiction apart from a TV show about his life.....why was so many things left out in this film?
Mickey-a momma's boy who does not act like a boxer in the ring and casually struts about getting bashed to hell then suddenly, manages to KO an opponent with a liver shot. I can't stress enough how badly the choreographed fight scenes were, absolutely pathetic. They barely touch each other.
Annoying mother, a bunch of ugly sisters that just seem to lurk about the family house....this film was TERRIBLE. An extremely hollow film.
Its so boring, so dull.
Christian Bale's performance was mediocre and nothing more. Wahlberg was pathetic.
Give this dismal film a miss.