So many reviews give this film high marks simply for being pro union, or Stallone not in a right wing role. But either as drama, action drama, or a history film it fails.
This is incredibly oversimplified. One union, one leader, and apparently no one in the over 100 years that labor unions have been around before this time ever ever thought of doing anything like Stallone's character.
No one ever fought back against hired thugs? Really? No one even thought about not bowing and scraping during negotiations? Seriously?
The film also reduces a strike to done by one local at one factory with a single bad boss who apparently watches in fascination and is shocked, shocked, when union men fight back. None of this is believable.
Perhaps a middle school class might need to be talked down to this much, but for most of us it stretches belief. A shame, given the subject's importance.
This is incredibly oversimplified. One union, one leader, and apparently no one in the over 100 years that labor unions have been around before this time ever ever thought of doing anything like Stallone's character.
No one ever fought back against hired thugs? Really? No one even thought about not bowing and scraping during negotiations? Seriously?
The film also reduces a strike to done by one local at one factory with a single bad boss who apparently watches in fascination and is shocked, shocked, when union men fight back. None of this is believable.
Perhaps a middle school class might need to be talked down to this much, but for most of us it stretches belief. A shame, given the subject's importance.