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Title: Bleed for This (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Miles Teller | ... | Vinny | |
| Aaron Eckhart | ... | Kevin Rooney | |
| Katey Sagal | ... | Louise | |
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | Angelo | |
| Ted Levine | ... | Lou Duva | |
| Jordan Gelber | ... | Dan Duva | |
| Amanda Clayton | ... | Doreen | |
| Daniel Sauli | ... | Jon | |
| Christine Evangelista | ... | Woman in Caesar's Hotel Room | |
| Tina Casciani | ... | Heather | |
| Liz Carey | ... | Charity - Woman Freaked out by Halo | |
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Denise Schaefer | ... | Leigh |
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Peter Quillin | ... | Roger Mayweather |
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Jean Pierre Augustin | ... | Gilbert Dele (as Jeanpierre Augustin) |
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Edwin Rodriguez | ... | Roberto Duran |
The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza who, after a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sport's most incredible comebacks.
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Bleed for This a sports drama based on the champion boxer Vinny Pazienza and the accident that almost left him paralyzed. It does not stop him on the road to recovery in training to get back into the boxing ring. These films are suppose to make you feel a little inspirational seeing real life situations happening to real people. The film does show very little for the inspiration.
Vinny (Miles Teller) is a cocky boxer, who rigs his body weight to meet the requirements. After the car accident, that leaves him wearing a halo ring on his neck for six months to recover. And the doctors telling him he is unable to ever go back in the ring. He spends his day, eating junk food, watching day time TV, going to strip clubs, and hanging out with his personal trainer Kevin (Aaron Eckhart). Vinny decides that he needs to work harder to train himself to get back into the ring against the doctors wishes.
The positive things about Bleed for This is it tries to have a fun sense of 1980s direction with the music soundtrack. Also, the inspirational true story about a boxer never letting a severe injury from stopping him to doing what he is inspired to do. The climax of the boxing match as Vinny is risking himself from severing his spinal cord from a single bad throw that can paralyze him was cringe worthy. Also, Miles Teller did a great job in portraying Vinny Pazienza. Aaron Eckhart playing a balding out of shape trainer was also good.
The negative thing about the film besides knowing how the turn out and what will happen to the character ends. I felt like the direction could have been a little stronger with its inspirational tone. The film does so well in trying to have a fun 80s tone, or delivering great performances with the cast. To make you feel for the moment and making it memorable unlike the others does not have much going for the movie. It can get pretty slow in the middle of the film until Vinny tries to lift weights while recovering. The music score Julia Holter does so little in making a memorable score besides having a couple of beat down 80s song.
Overall, Bleed for This is a fair sports drama film that has good talent, and an inspired concept but does so little with trying so hard on making the movie emotional. The hard recovery the boxer went through will be inspired as a strong motivation but the film sadly will easily be forgotten. I will rate the film 3 out of 5 stars.