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| Play It To The Bone | 31 Dec 99 |
While there's a core interesting idea here, and the performances and the writing in a number of scenes is fine -- the end third lifts it from an F to a C -- there's a major error in thinking at the core of this trip. Taking place over one afternoon, really, as two boxers get a second shot at fame if they can get to a fight in Vegas that evening, a good portion of the film takes place in the car on the way to Vegas (with their mutual sort-of-ex girlfriend) as they have dicussions that set up their various relationships, desires and ghosts. That drive is deadly; it may be an hour of screen time, but feels much, much longer than the actual four hours it takes to get there. There's a reason "Rocky" didn't take place in one day. C