A Modern Day Rocky?

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2015)

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he is trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
This film is necessarily compared to "Rocky", with its underdog fighter who is moving up in the sports world. But now we have the UFC and MMA, which is today's version of boxing. (When we go get hot wings, we watch MMA. Rarely do we pay big money for boxing anymore.) Somehow this film has been praised so much it ended up on the IMDb Top 250. Exactly how is a mystery to me, though compared to other films that get on there, I suppose it is not so strange.