Featured Actress: Vanessa Ferlito - When it first aired, I was excited to see this 2003 HBO movie, because I love fight films, I like John Leguizamo, and I think Vanessa Ferlito has a very sexy and hot quality. Well, I got some of it right.
Vanessa looked great in the movie, and Suzy McCoppin makes a believable call girl. Otherwise, the movie falls short.
As a fight film which shows the rise of an amateur fighter to professional champion, it's extremely sterotyped and predictable. There isn't one unique thing in this movie, and the ending doesn't exist. The movie doesn't end, it stops.
HBO has produced some great movies, but this isn't one of them. I saw this movie when it first aired, but even though I was disappointed in the movie, and even though it's been widely capped, I still wanted it for my collection, so here goes.
