Jake Gyllenhaal

Rachel McAdams

Forest Whitaker

Oona Laurence

50 Cent

Skylan Brooks

Naomie Harris

Victor Ortiz

Beau Knapp

Miguel Gómez

Dominic Colón

Jose Caraballo

Malcolm M. Mays

Aaron Quattrocchi

Lana Young

Danny Henriquez

Patsy Meck

Vito Grassi

Tony Weeks

Jimmy Lennon Jr.

Charles Hoyes

Clare Foley

Rita Ora

Jim Lampley

Adam Kroloff

Joe Fishel

Michelle Johnston

Jackson Nunn

Antoine Fuqua

Kurt Sutter

Jason Blumenthal

Mauro Fiore

Merissa Lombardo

Mary Vernieu

Lindsay Graham Ahanonu

Steve Tisch

John Refoua

Derek R. Hill

Peter Riche

Gregory A. Weimerskirch

David C. Robinson

Alan Riche

James Horner

Todd Black

Ezra Swerdlow

Bob Weinstein

Jonathan Garrison

Harvey Weinstein

Gary Cheng

Paul Rosenberg

David Bloomfield

David L. Schiff

David Ranes

Fang Zhao

Kat Samick

Stuart Parr

Dylan Sellers

Diane Collins

Karen Lovell

Laura Pliskin

Liz Bernstrom

Louie Zakarian

Alison Evans

Deirdre Horgan

John Houlihan

Eminem

John Cenatiempo

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Drama

Southpaw

Fuqua Films

Escape Artists

Riche-Ludwig Productions

Wanda Pictures

United States of America

English

sports

fighter

tragedy

death

boxing

box ring

father daughter relationship

Andres Gomez

Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker and, specially, Jake Gyllenhaal show us how good of an actors they are. Also, we discover the great performance by Oona Laurence but that's the(one and only) big strength of the movie; its cast.

The story is the one told a thousand times without many new details that would make it any different. The directing is correct but the story is just too well known.

I can handle the rules, man, I'll handle the rules.

Ultimately this is just another one of those sports movies about someone who went off the rails due to tragedy, but came back to make the audience cheer. There is absolutely nothing new here, every cliché is adhered to, every chance to tug the heart strings is prominent, while the finale is as obvious as any one who watches sports movies will expect. But these things don't make it a bad film.

It's very well mounted by the makers, expertly performed by the principal actors, and, well, there's often a time when you need a rousing pick-me-up movie. The camera work and choreography is high grade, while director Antoine Fuqua is able to keep a realistic feel to the drama throughout. It is what it is, a very well made boxing movie, it's just not champion in story, just merely a contender. 7/10

As far as boxing sport movies goes Southpaw isn't a film to remember, but the whole aspect of a criminal being made a successful man because of his wife/daughter, people in his life the MC deemed to fight for, added that one drama notch to get you all goose bumped.

Regardless, as far as boxing goes, these fights weren't doing it for me as a boxing sport fanatic and practitioner myself. They were unrealistic to a certain extend.

Southpaw Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams Movie HD

Southpaw( 2015)

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A review by Andres Gomez

Written by Andres Gomez on Fri Jan 22 2016

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