Overrated but not necessarily bad

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2011)

I find it hard to enjoy movies where the (main) characters are despicable. In this movie there are way too many characters like that, and the main character Micky Ward is kind of dull and tricky to relate to at all.
The characters also develop in a weird way (as in a bad one) throughout the movie, and so does the story itself, leaving us with an ending that in my opinion didn't do justice to the few characters I liked.
What really killed the movie for me though was some of the boxing scenes. Especially the KO:s are simply awkwardly enacted and look silly. I am aware of the fact that it's hard to make a scripted boxing fight look good but thats not an acceptable excuse for it looking bad..