The life of Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen (Robert De Niro) and Henry 'Razor' Sharp (Sylvester Stallone), two courageous and well known rival boxers, who throughout their history in boxing, achieves a great success and break the records, has been changed completely, when they have the opportunity to play a final match after many years of their retirement.
"(Not only) is this sports comedy poorly timed, it has more than just a whiff of desperation, both on the part of its remaining cast and the filmmaker."
The jokes are clumsy, the dramatic scenes stale and lifeless; like the climactic bout, the movie itself is a freak show, a fantasy matchup between two icons with nothing better to do than spend down their legacies.
I do have to marvel at the way Stallone has always been able to make himself the underdog. This is a massive monster of a man who should by any account be the Goliath to any movie's David, yet he's always able to play vulnerable.
By the time Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro start training for the big match -- it's called Grudgment Day -- you give in because, surprisingly, both actors have reported for duty, especially De Niro.
