Low budget shot on video boxing movie about two boxers, one a well off kid of some notoriety and ability and the other a street kid looking to stay out of trouble. The film follows their lives as they try to navigate life in and out of the ring. This is a good looking little film that, unfortunately, is dramatically inert. There are long silences and other attempts at meaning but it never amounts to much, worse not a lot of it seems real, the boxing scenes really didn't, even in a home movie of an amateur match sort of a way (certainly I don't know of any fighter who would fight in matches with an announcer calling the action every week). It does have heart felt performances but there is no real emotion to hook unto. One can pretty much guess where things are going but it's the sort of thing that you really won't care about. On the plus side I let the DVD of the film run to the end with out fast forwarding, on the negative side I got up in the middle of it and did other things only to come back at the end and realize I had left it on. I'd take a pass.
Review of Harder They Fall
