Greetings from Lithuania."Bleed for This" (2016) would be a good but by the number boxing movie except for one major exception - this is absolutely true story and this fact pushes this movie to better heights. This is a great inspirational story about hope and what happens when you don't give up in seemingly a "no way out" situation. Miles Teller gives a great performances (one of his best yet). Supporting characters were great as well. Overall, "Bleed for This" is a very good movie that shows a highly inspiring story. This is as well a good movie about boxing. It doesn't bring anything new to table, but its a damn good movie.

'Bleed for This' is about as "by the book" as movies come sadly. It's based on a true story, but in a lot of ways it does a disservice to the real story. First of all, the main character Vinny Pazienza is portrayed in a very unbelievable way. The movie goes out of its way to make him seem like an absolute saint, for no reason other than that we are supposed to root for him. I would've preferred his character actually had some realistic outbursts and we weren't necessarily rooting for him. It would have made the whole experience feel more authentic.The first half hour of the film, the set-up phase, is pretty dull and uninteresting and is going to lose a lot of people right there and then. The middle third of the film is certainly the most interesting. His dealing with the accident and the recovery side of things is far more interesting than the parts that should have been the most exciting at the beginning and end (go figure).'Bleed for This' does nothing to stand out from the crowds of movies being put forward today. The only people I can see getting any enjoyment out of this film are people who have a love for boxing or a particular interest in this story. For everyone else though, give it a miss.

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.

Darn. Just darn! If the boxing matches in this film were filmed a hell of a lot better, this film would have been nominated for picture of the year and etc, etc. The film is shot well but like I said before, the action choreography cheapens the film, and that is a darn shame because this isn't just your average Rocky-knockoff boxing picture. This film is based on a true story. This review will avoid any spoilers because that is how I went into this film and I'm better for it. All I knew about this film was that it is a boxing movie. I didn't even know it was based on a true story, they should have marketed it that way. This is a great film regardless of the action's short comings. After watching the film, I went as far as to look into the life of the boxer this film is based on. It all happened just like the film depicts. They do skip a few minor fights to add dramatic flare but whatever. But yeah, shame how the dramatic tension falls flat whenever he steps into the boxing ring. It is painful but I have to give this film a seven out of ten... maybe a 7.5 out of ten but I'll round up because the whatever and blah.