It wasn't the best boxing movie I ever saw but I enjoyed it. It's slightly overdone/caricatural to be truly realistic and the dialogs are difficult to understand at times especially in the beginning when everybody seems to be talking at the same time. I thought Wahlberg played his best role yet although Bale steals the show and rises high above everybody here. He's so good at playing tortured souls. Melissa Leo is great as the Ward's very controlling matriarch. For a better boxing movie than this check out The Boxer with Daniel Day Lewis.
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