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Grudge Match (2013)

Comedy | 113 minutes
3,05 489 votes

Genre: Comedy / Sport

Duration: 113 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Peter Segal

Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro and Kim Basinger

IMDb score: 6,4 (63.724)

Releasedate: 25 December 2013

Grudge Match plot

"Stallone vs DeNiro"

Henry 'Razor' Sharp (Stallone) and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen (De Niro) are old boxing rivals from yesteryear. Now they're leaving retirement for what it's like to fight one last game, thirty years after their last fight.

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Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

Henry 'Razor' Sharp

Louis 'Lightning' Conlon

Dante Slate, Jr.

Sally Rose

Frankie Brite

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Brabants

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Grudge Match what a chemistry between Stallone and De Niro! The story is a great platform in which these gentlemen know how to shine. It actually has everything in it. Well entertained.

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Could this movie have been made if Jake LaMotta and Rocky Balboa hadn't signed on for the lead roles? I doubt it. The plot offers little news and I already know all those gyms and training methods from countless previous boxing films, but because the two stars play their roles so confidently and also go for it in the physical scenes, I finally had to surrender to this. Sure, Alan Arkin pecks almost every scene from Sly with his vinegar-pissed one-liners, Jon Bernthal is remarkably effective as a rough husk white pit (especially since he's still on my mind as Brad, the unlicked bear in The wolf of Wall Street) and the director keeps a fast pace, but otherwise the film is all about the two stars, one of which shows that he has learned to act quite well and the other that he is still can make an impression when he's not on autopilot.

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Lovelyboy

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Grudge Match, well...what can you say? I was under the impression that this had something to do with Rocky, and I have little to do with the Hollywood follow-up culture anyway. So Grudge Match was something I always brushed aside and paid little attention to. But recently it was on TV, I watched the first few minutes and I was like let's give it a try.

And hey...what a surprise, no Rocky Balboa but a completely different character. Although, Stallone as a boxer, well the link is made quickly of course and the decline is also the same to a certain extent. Nice is certainly the old sore with the rival who is insufferable to say the least. There are also some private things. The humor and witty remarks of Hart are also nice, which seems quite appropriate and forms a counterweight between the two grumbles.

But other than that...there is not really any depth, it feels like nonsense that such old boxers still enter the ring, the parallel with Rocky, Rocky Balboa in this case, is not far away, the whole run-up tends to be with relational concerns and physical problems towards melodrama and the match itself tends towards the obscene. Two oldies going after each other, it will be...

Still, it's not all that annoying to watch once. Especially De Niro partly saves the show as an unsympathetic opponent, a role that suits him. Therefore, nice for once but certainly no more than that.

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