Why Does Everyone Love This Movie

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2014)

I watched this movie because everyone said I had to. That it was amazing, was such an inspiring story, and that Christian Bale was awesome in it. I'll give them that. He did a good job. But everything else was disappointing. There was no emotion in the entire movie. I didn't feel anything the entire time. In the end, when Micky won the fight, I didn't even care. There was nothing leading up to it, nothing to make me excited about it.
The entire movie was a downer, everybody hated each other and complained all the time. Amy Adams, who is normally beautiful looked terrible. Melissa Leo somehow won an Oscar (??!!) for her role, when she didn't have a challenging, significant nor sizeable role in the film. She didn't have many lines, and had the oh-so-difficult role of being a rude person and a bad mother.
The character development was a disaster. Christian's character did a complete 180 in the blink of an eye, and all the other characters were the exact same the whole movie.
Finally, Mark. Mark Wahlberg has done some great work. His performance in the Departed was outstanding. But in the Fighter he was boring, dumb, and lacked emotion.
All in all, I felt I owed it to anyone that hasn't seen it to give them the other perspective, since majority of these reviews are positive. Don't watch it.