Not essentially a bad movie, but no surprising twists in the plot. It's like an automatically fabricated product, it lacks the soul of genius. Daniel Brühl delivers quite a performance, especially given the fact that he ain't the role model of a ghetto boxer. But all along the movie, I couldn't help asking myself: Is this it? I was waiting for something else to happen, some of the lead character to freak out or go on a rampage. The happy ending came all to sudden and some of the side plots were left in the dark and developed no real pattern. And, again, it was a sort of American Rocky knock-off which was telling the exact same story of a boxer growing up in sad conditions and still succeeding in the end. In a nutshell, for its genre this film isn't bad, but it doesn't add anything to it.
Review of Elefantenherz
