Great Movie, Mickey Ward is a Legend!

Rating: 9/10 (23 September 2012)

I wanted to see this as soon as I heard it was about "Irish" Mickey Ward. I watched his 3 last legendary fights and he won me over. The story itself was a great one. Christian Bale, who played Mickey's brother stole the show and was the real strength of the movie. Amy Adams did a stellar job as well
I only had 3 problems with this movie. 1st, I really didn't like Mark Wahlberg as the lead, there are other actors that I think could have pulled it off better and may not have been so upstaged by Bale. I think the movie portrayed Mickey as a little too soft spoken and sort of passive when it came to things going on around him, but if you ever watched his real interviews he seemed anything but that way. These things aside it was a great movie, but it lost one star for me because it didn't take us to the real glory of this bio.
They only made mention at the end of his legendary fight and the subsequent 2 rematches ( also Legendary), that many of us fans thought he won every one of but got robbed. I understand a little bit if they didn't want to recreate these and leave those fights to stand on their own, but Ithink they missed a great opportunity for people that have never actually watched one of his fights.
Great Story, Great Fight Movie!