Lowell's glory days have past when it's own Dick Ward went from being a boxing champion and turned into Andy Dick... I mean a crackhead. Years later Dick is still on the gonja, but his brother Mick is quickly rising as a serious competetor in boxing, but due to his family's selfish motives and Dick's addictions, it proves to be a lot harder. Will Mick become the world champ? Tune in after these messages.
The Good: This movie looks B-E-A-UTIFUL. The only thing that doesn't look good is the run down town of Lowell, which looks more like Death Valley with tumble weeds rolling all over the place. Before watching every Best Picture Nominee in 2011, the only reason I wanted to see this was to witness Christian Bale's performance, and it was amazing. The mans a method actor, and so I want to tell him to settle down with all the physical preparation he goes through before something bad happens, then again it's fun to watch the result. Marky-Mark although was not as good as an actor as his crack head Christian-Bale-of-a-brother, he was still a good lead for the movie... And holy Lindsey Lohan!! Mark is buff in this film; he seriously looks like he eats nails for breakfast, and then at dinner he forces Chuck Norris to wear a tutu and dance in public. Christian Bale looks as though he only eats a single tic-tac and some crack for breakfast.
The Bad: The danger with making a boxing movie is everyone will compare it to the "Rocky" series, which if anyone has seen them, they'll know that those movies are a hard thing to live up to. Although I did think "The Fighter" was good, it wasn't as good as any of the "Rocky" movies... except maybe the 5th installment. Seriously what was Sylvester Stallone thinking? I would rather clean a toilet seat with my tongue then watch that, but I digress. What i'm trying to say is this movie probably would have been better had the boxing scenes been left out, because during the second half of the film C and I thought it quickly became a John Cena movie once Marky Mark got into the ring. We thought the boxing scenes were awesome, no doubt, it's just we felt they were a little anti-climatic when compared to the drama-filled build up.
The Ugly: This aint no "Rocky" flick, but it is still a very good film to see. The two of us were going to finish the other half of the movie the next day, but C got so glued to the story that she wanted to finish it, so I put the remote down and she dropped the turkey carving knife from my throat; we both got what we wanted, I got to live and she got the movie.
3 1/2 out of 5
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