Not quite there

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2011)

To start with, there are some decent fighting scenes in the movie which are nice, Brendan's underdog style of fighting comes across quite well.
Unfortunately the movie attempts to deceive the audience into crying at various times with things like background music soaring without reason - e.g. person walking out of the room or a boxer out of cage with music reaching the crescendo, you wonder what the glorification is all about? Typical things we associate with a soap opera or Hollywood superficiality. Nothing honest and real, more contrived.
What one really misses in the last fight is two players giving their best and fighting out like two competitors, in the end acknowledging the best performance.