The film never recovers from my reluctance to accept the actor in the title role as Roberto Duran.
The genuine boxer was a small, skinny rat-like character in his early lightweight days.
However, the actor is tall, strapping, chisel-jawed and above all far too clean-cut to pull off the sinister Duran persona.
I also do not buy the 'pretty boy' Sugar Ray Leonard character because 1) the actor looks like he's about forty years-old and 2) he's not good-looking.
I wanted to see filth, poverty, violence in Duran's early days because this is what I've heard his background is, but where was the grit? the pain?
Nobody else is going to make a film about this legendary boxer so we are stuck with this disappointing effort.
The genuine boxer was a small, skinny rat-like character in his early lightweight days.
However, the actor is tall, strapping, chisel-jawed and above all far too clean-cut to pull off the sinister Duran persona.
I also do not buy the 'pretty boy' Sugar Ray Leonard character because 1) the actor looks like he's about forty years-old and 2) he's not good-looking.
I wanted to see filth, poverty, violence in Duran's early days because this is what I've heard his background is, but where was the grit? the pain?
Nobody else is going to make a film about this legendary boxer so we are stuck with this disappointing effort.