THE FIGHTER

As a boxing fan I was satisfied with this movie.


Its a piece with a careful set of selected events in the fighter career of Micky Ward for cinematic purposes. shot to the body.  He has the perfect left hook to the body and that is has been his bread and butter throughout his career.  I actually remember the fight where he was getting his ass whooped for 6 rounds and then made do cry with a hook to the body.  Micky Ward had a phenomenal boxing series with the now deceased Arturo Gatti. The first fight being regarded by many as the fight of the 20th century.  Real life Rocky shit.

Now this is some real white nigga shit okay.  There aren't any blacks in this movie, except the occasional small extra type parts.  I say nigga shit because the people exude a raw rough ghetto ass up north white attitude that would be labeled by some as white trash.

Micky Ward is a boxer. Micky's older brother, Dicky, was a boxer and he fought Sugar Ray Leonard in the 80's. A fight where Leonard won, of course, but he slipped in the fight and that Dicky's ride to fame in his town.  He got on this "I put Suga Ray on his ass" kick and never left it.  Even while he was on crack.  Not only was this nigga on crack but he let HBO do a crack smoking special on him.  First time I ever seen someone smoking crack was on that HBO special and Dicky was rocker.  Dicky is a real loser in the movie.  But you cant tell this to his momma because "her baby ain't no crackhead".


Dicky trains Micky when he's not on crack binges with his crack smoking friends and the HBO crew.  Now if you check his record Micky Ward got his ass whooped more than a little bit but that's where the carefully selected events come into play.  This movie goes through the ups and downs of his career in a selected fashion and it works.


A boxing movie can be excellent (see Rocky series) if done correctly.  This movie was done correctly.  With all the Great White Hope factor in here for you to get behind this mediocre boxer.  Is it better than Rocky? I wouldn't say that.  But my biased nostalgic ways might be not allow me to say that.  But it is a good movie.


You get to see a lot of wild white ghetto family action in this one.  The mother and sisters of Micky fighting with the new girlfriend.  Crack smoking.  And just a bunch of other funny, sad, and ultimately entertaining action.