Charlene said it, crazy duckin' family

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2015)

I have always had a mild problem with western sports series. The characters often suck so bad and the writing centers too much around one thing, making the titles not only character-centered, but seem like the whole world turns around the main character, and not the other way around.
The Fighter is a prime example of a sports title that does this exact thing. From the home town common folks to people in prison, every single one exists in the name of main characters, making the movie one-dimensional. This one-dimensional nature also spreads to the characters. As the summary implies, we have loads of stupid people in it. The family, and do it for the family philosophy, both are very annoying. The family itself contains drug addicts, self-centered arseholes and, in generally, hoes whose IQ matches their shoe size. This makes the movie seem like reddit where few people who have it going fight against idiots that come in masses.
Despite the terrible characters, The Fighter does good thing on delivering the idiocy and destroying it. The development almost makes this a feel-good movie as it is rewarding to see stupid people getting owned. The bad things unfortunately still out-weight the good, because there simply isn't enough time to make all the stupid people seem stupid enough. All in all it is not that bad of a movie, but definitely not good either.