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Generally unfavorable - based on 25 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: Arturo Ortega (Smits), a former boxing champion, focuses all his attention on the single-minded pursuit of training his three sons to follow in his footsteps, coming close to tearing his family apart in the process.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Negative: 11 out of 25
  1. Reviewed by: Other (Specify)
    85
    Complaints? None, except perhaps a wish for more length, and a little more depth.
  2. When the film suddenly turns into "Rocky" -- as all boxing films of the past two decades invariably do -- it invalidates its theme.
  3. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2

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