“Welcome to New York.”

James Braddock- ‘The Pride of New Jersey’. I’ve been wanting to watch this for a while, since Braddock is a fairly popular name in sports history in NY/NJ.

This is a pretty great biopic. Russel Crowe was great, the script was tight, and it was really well made. Definitely one of the grittiest boxing movies I’ve ever seen. I love that they were able to make it so gritty while also really pushing Braddock’s family life. But, of course, the real star of this movie is Paul Giamatti.

No, I will not shut up about Paul Giamatti being under appreciated. He definitely should have won a Supporting Actor Oscar for this performance, but lost to George Clooney in Syriana. RESPECT THE KING 😤

اكثر بكثير من مجرد فيلم لرياضة الملاكمه ..

الفيلم يتكلم لنا عن الاسره ، الفقر ، وبذل كل ما في وسعك لـ ضمان معيشة عائلتك ...

قدم لنا راسل كرو واحدًا من أفضل الادوار التي قدمها على الإطلاق ، تقمص 
لنا شخصية جيمي بكل تفاصيلها الصغيره ...
 وايضا قدم لنا كل من رينيه زيلويغر وبول جياماتي أداءً مذهلاً ، وربما يكون هذا أفضل فيلم رون هوارد مع "عقل جميل" في تاريخه ...

بالنهايه من اجمل الافلام الرياضيه التي شاهدتها ان لم يكن من افضلها ..

this is the american dream. it's a symbol of love, hope, and courage. such a beautiful story to tell & glad they've executed it perfectly in this film.

Howard maintaining a sweeping populist command, crafting a tribute to the American working class (a group he’s fetishized throughout his career) by delivering a hero who literally punches his way out of economic strife. Gorgeously detailed and photographed, the dynamic between Crowe and Giamatti is terrific (with the burly Aussie reminding us why he’s one of the most charismatic movie stars of this age). But it’s the fights that are the real story here - brutal and physical while slipping inside the strategic mind of a boxer through slick edits. The moment where Braddock picks his bloody mouth guard off the mat is a killer.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Title card: "In all the history of the boxing game you find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock..." 

Russell Crowe’s stars as depression era boxer Jim Braddock. One of his most overlooked performances. Paul Giamatti was rightfully nominated for best supporting actor for his work here. Renee Zellwegger is strong too. Directed by Ron Howard and it’s my fav film of his (2013’s RUSH is massively underrated too). This is a Beautiful and moving film that deserves a little more love 

Jim Braddock: I have to believe that when things are bad I can change them.

The Trailer is maybe why this bombed back in 2005. it does look like Oscar Bait. It's a really great flick tho

While at times follows beats of the generic biopic, CINDERELLA MAN engaged me through some pretty well-choreographed and edited fight scenes, great performances, and a fantastic score. The movie as a whole is shot pretty well too. I've never been a huge fan of Ron Howard's films, but this might be up there with his best that I've seen. Either way, regardless of how good his films are, Ron Howard as a person gets 5 stars from me.

It took me a while to realise it but I finally figured out what was bothering me the most about the film half way through.

Ron Howard chose to shoot each boxing scene in perhaps the most conventional way possible and that I found to be a hindrance at times. They’re all fine but nothing really sets them apart from many other boxing films we’ve seen.  Raging Bull for example, does a great job with using close ups and slow mo shots whilst Cinderella Man mostly just rapidly cuts back and forth with moderate success.

Regardless, it’s an otherwise interesting and really well acted film across the board, Crowe especially shines.

Ron Howard for sure won the match for his directorial efforts in Cinderella Man, a wonderful crowd pleaser from beginning to end. It’s a film that revs up the excitement up to the final match, which is the best sequence in the movie. It’ll surely put a smile on anybody’s face, to know that even though he lived through rough times during the Great Depression, he never gave up. Like a true master warrior.

watched this in history class. representation of the great depression was good.

cinematography and the visual aspects weren’t incredible but represented life at the time pretty well.

wouldn’t have watched this one on my own.

Always love a historical film. Did feel a bit long and something about the camera work was funky enough that I noticed it which means it wasn’t good. But other than those things it was good.

문제가 뭐냐면요, 지금 난방비를 못 내서 아이들을
친척 집에 맡겨놨는데요 근데 일자리도 없어졌고요
그래서 딱 21300원이 모자란 상황이거든요

(8.5/10)

The original heavy weight Champ looked like Raging Bull Robert DeNiro

I am not the biggest fan of Ron Howard. Outside of Apollo 13, I don't particularly care for many of his films. I'm not a huge fan of A Beautiful Mind, his previous film with Russell Crowe and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman. Also, it has to be said that this feel-good sports movie may be as by the book as it gets. But darn it, I just had a great time watching it.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for a crowd-pleasing underdog boxing story (I cried watching both Creed movies). Maybe Crowe just gives a great performance as Depression era boxer Jimmy Braddock. Maybe sometimes a movie doesn't need to be heavy hitter to work well.

Watched this for history class to learn ab the Great Depression. Movie was good, but the way that they did the fight scenes are what made this movie awesome.

There’s nothing about this that’s absolutely awful, as the way it’s shot, acted, and assembled are all adequate... it’s just so dull and by the numbers.

I’ve enjoyed movies I’ve rated lower than this more than this, but I gotta recognise that it is technically well made, even though the story isn’t told in a particularly exciting way, and no aspect of it really rises above being decent.

I will say: the boxing scenes themselves were disappointing, as even with the Rocky series varying in quality, you could usually rely on them to have a good fight scene or two. I guess they’re not awfully choreographed or filmed here: more just presented in such a matter of fact, very unimpressive way.

Just such a whatever of a movie. 2.5/5 feels generous, but when there’s a minimum amount of effort put into making everything “okay,” I guess that’s worth something? Even if that something is literally just the bare minimum.

Like Far and Away, I watched this in social studies while I was learning about the great depression. So thank you Mr. Hyen very cool.

I lived the film like I was in it. Awesomeee

A solid boxing movie, it lags at times, but it carries on with a lot of momentum with the comeback story.