Written by Paddy Considine
Directed by Paddy Considine
Starring Paddy Considine...
This film has 'vanity project' written all over it and from the very start I found it unconvincing and impossible to get into.
Considine doesn't even look like an amateur boxer making his debut, let alone a World Champion and is at least ten years too old for the part. Instead he should have cast a younger, fitter actor in the role, but I guess his ego got in the way.
If you get can get past the implausibility of a 43-year-old Considine playing a world class boxer it's quickly followed by the equally unlikely concept of a wealthy brain-damaged fighter receiving no professional care at all and a wife who leaves her increasingly violent husband alone with their baby.
I think this would have worked a little better if the central character was an aging F1 driver who crashes and suffers life-changing injuries, but this is contrived, dull and uninvolving throughout.
I doubt many IMDb users will find this review helpful (because a lot of people seem to think this film's amazing) but I found it impossible to care about the story or the characters.
This film has 'vanity project' written all over it and from the very start I found it unconvincing and impossible to get into.
Considine doesn't even look like an amateur boxer making his debut, let alone a World Champion and is at least ten years too old for the part. Instead he should have cast a younger, fitter actor in the role, but I guess his ego got in the way.
If you get can get past the implausibility of a 43-year-old Considine playing a world class boxer it's quickly followed by the equally unlikely concept of a wealthy brain-damaged fighter receiving no professional care at all and a wife who leaves her increasingly violent husband alone with their baby.
I think this would have worked a little better if the central character was an aging F1 driver who crashes and suffers life-changing injuries, but this is contrived, dull and uninvolving throughout.
I doubt many IMDb users will find this review helpful (because a lot of people seem to think this film's amazing) but I found it impossible to care about the story or the characters.