The Fighter

[yoco]

Release Date: December 10, 2010 (limited; wide release: Dec. 17)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: David O. Russell
Screenwriter: Scott Silver
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee
Genre: Drama, Sports

"The Fighter" is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his unlikely path to become world lightweight champion. Bale plays Dicky Eklund, Micky's half-brother and a talented fighter who once went the distance with Sugar Ray Leonard in a title fight but then turned to crime and landed in prison. Then he turned his life around and helped his underperforming brother find the spark for a remarkable run that led to the world title.

[slikrapid]

started off good with the 2 brothers in the street scene and then got gradually sobering as wahlbergs acting incompetence just destroys any promising angles of the movie, then we get a handful of jerry springer action degrading the experience even further, usa egoism, ignorance & intolerance crammed together attempting to appear as something inspiring or meaningful

for a better boxing movie see just about any of the rocky movies, especially:
Rocky (1976) excellent

[tokiodrift1]

Sounds good n' will check it out.

@slikrapid: rocky is awesome, it's the best boxing pentalogy (excl. the last one).

[yoco]

Watched it today. I really liked it. Everything is awesome. The story, the cast, the acting. It's simply amazing. I can't believe I didn't watch it earlier.

8,5/10

[SBI_Freak]

It's the biography of a fighter. I don't like this kinda movies. 5/10

[segadj]

My fav boxing movie
-Million Dollar Baby
-Cinderella Man
-Rocky
-Against The Rope
-Ali
and my all time fav Raging Bull.

And there's still plenty more...