Another great white hope story

Rating: 2/10 (21 March 2011)

To say this was as predictable as boxing itself, possibly the most fixed sport of them all, is a gross understatement. I may have been in suspense watching this at age 5. I wish I could screen write, since this obviously made a lot of money for its producers. It's 3 hours I'll never get back; not that the movie was that long, but I stopped in the middle to calculate postage for a package I need to send, which seemed more gripping at the time. I also didn't like "Rocky". I tend to dislike the movies that most other people like - anything based on a comic book or a sequel or TV show is usually drivel that I expect to be below contempt. I don't waste my time watching such drivel, at least not usually. I must say that they sounded like Lowellites and Bostonians, at least of the demimonde. I liked "Roseanne", purported to be about "white trash." That was funny and didn't take itself too seriously. More's the pity that the same can't be said about this one...