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Price of Glory
Metascore
32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 25
  3. Negative: 11 out of 25
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  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Other (Specify)
    85
    Complaints? None, except perhaps a wish for more length, and a little more depth.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    75
    Hollywood keeps turning out boxing movies. Price of Glory is the latest to step into the ring and face an increasingly no-win situation
  3. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    A movie that features rich Mexican American characters and an uncompromising story line is always timely.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    The movie, while heartfelt and vividly shot, takes too many rote genre turns.
  5. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    75
    Price of Glory won't make anyone forget "Raging Bull" or "Rocky."
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    58
    When the film suddenly turns into "Rocky" -- as all boxing films of the past two decades invariably do -- it invalidates its theme.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    Made me feel like I was sitting in McDonald's watching some guy shout at his kids. Price of Glory gives us two hours of that behavior, and it's a miscalculation so basic that it makes the movie painful when it wants, I guess, to be touching.
  9. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    50
    A pretty good film, acted powerfully .
  10. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Curtis Morgan
    50
    Moves too slowly, running out of gas in the later rounds of the plot.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    Price of Glory isn't an embarrassment on the order of the last major boxing movie, "Play It to the Bone," but it's not especially worth intercepting on its way to the video racks.
  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    A boxing movie that exists in that gray area between prototypical and typical, the quintessential and run-of-the-mill.
  13. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Despite excellent performances all around, the actors can't overcome the script's limitations.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Eric Harrison
    40
    The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference.
  15. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Stumbles over its own clumsiness until it goes down for the count.
  16. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Sean Means
    30
    It's not easy to go 12 rounds against a cliche-ridden story like Price of Glory and remain standing. But somehow stars Jimmy Smits and Jon Seda, and first-time director Carlos Avila, manage to survive.
  17. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    The film is a TKO before it even had a chance to get off a decent hook.
  18. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: M. V. Moorhead
    20
    Predictable and conventional and unadventurous. It can't really be defended, except that it's comfortably enjoyable.
  19. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    20
    Not a very good movie; it's sentimental, pandering and psychologically anorexic.
  20. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    20
    In films, as in the ring, heart and will without exceptional talent don't produce winners.
  21. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    20
    May hold some appeal for Latino auds in the Southwest but will fold after a couple of rounds in the big arena.
  22. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    20
    Smits can't wrench free of this tangle of cliches.
  23. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    The labored storytelling in this movie about displaced ambition diminishes the impact of the powerful performances.
  24. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: John Patterson
    10
    It's outclassed by the memory of just about every prizefighting flick you've ever seen.
  25. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    10
    Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda.
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