Resurrecting the Champ Reviews



  • Resurrecting the Champ
    • Genre : Drama
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : PG-13
    • Duration : -
    • Production Budget : 13
    • Studio : Yari Film Group Releasing
    • Official Site : http://www.resurrectingthechamp.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
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Movie Reviews

  • smartly measured, both robust and delicate, giving full whallop to the personal dimensions
    by Duane Byrge [Hollywood Reporter ]
  • seems to be just what you expect
    2.5 of 4 by Geoff Pevere [Toronto Star ]
  • Samuel L. Jackson is wonderful; too bad the movie is not
    2 of 4 by Pam Grady [Reel.com ]
  • one-sided Hollywood claptrap about honesty and valor
    2 of 4 by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
  • never really explores the exploitation that is at its heart
    2 of 4 by Jason McBride [Globe and Mail ]
  • Michael Bortman and Allison Burnett?s screenplay is textbook-perfect
    4 of 5 by John Thomason [Orlando Weekly ]
  • Like a boxer whose jabs range from precise to punch-drunk, the movie connects on some of those swings and misses on others
    2.5 of 4 by Barbara Vancheri [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]
  • leaves a lot to be desired as a boxing movie
    2.5 of 4 by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]
  • it's more intelligent than most Hollywood movies you'll find in the heat of summer
    Review rate : B- by William Arnold [Seattle Post Intelligencer ]
  • captures the hard-boiled tone of a big-city newsroom almost perfectly
    by Stephen Holden [NY Times ]
  • a tedious melodrama whose sole saving grace is the performance of Samuel L. Jackson
    2 of 4 by Jack Mathews [NY Daily News ]
  • a snooze, but at least it's an honest one
    2 of 4 by Paul Schrodt [Slant Magazine ]
  • A good little scrapper, but not a title contender
    2.5 of 4 by Carrie Rickey [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

Reader's Reviews

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