The Fighter (2008) User Reviews

Asked hubby to rent the Mark Wahlberg movie by this title and he got this instead

[micases · 2/10 · 15 June 2012]

Don't make the same mistake my husband did. I heard that "The Fighter" was a great movie and had won Oscars so I wanted to see it and asked him to rent it. He didn't know anything about the movie so he brought home this instead. At the start of the movie before I realized the mistake, I told him that this movie had won Oscars. After the first five minutes of really terrible acting, he said "are you sure this has won awards? This acting is really terrible." This is actually really hilariously bad and we were cracking up while watching it, but maybe we were just laughing about the absurdity of this SO NOT being the Mark Wahlberg/Christian Bale movie by this title. This has terrible acting, over-the-top melodrama, cheesy fake Italian accents (which are apparently supposed to be Mexican instead?), "Mexican" characters who don't look Mexican at all, a creepy stalker of a nurse who follows the main character everywhere for no apparent reason and may or may not be a love interest, laughable fight scenes in which the crowd members are wearing the same clothes in fights on different days, plot holes galore and ridiculous coincidences. It would be giving this movie way too much credit to call it a B-movie. And did I mention the bad acting? If what you really wanted to watch was the Marky Mark version of "The Fighter," you will be sorely disappointed if you end up with this version instead. I'm giving it two stars instead of only one because this was actually so bad it was funny.

A boring movie

[Jeremy_brewer1 · 1/10 · 13 February 2012]

This movie contained to much drama! They could of at least said that instead of sport so I wouldn't of watched this movie. This is another film they used a lot of harnesses and ropes in it. There is no way this girl could do a back flip over another guy while he is standing up. Unless she had some sort of wings then I would understand, but that would never happen. The last fight of the movie was horrible. They kept play fighting and zooming the camera closer to their faces. All you can see is them expressing their love to each other or else the guy would of won the fight. Because how could the guy have more hits than the girl and the guy acts like a dumb ass and stops fighting. Then let's the girl get the final hits for her to win the fight. That is fighting with to much love and not enough anger which is pointless of even thinking that your going to win.