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Title: Sucker Punched
Review: Paul Haggis is up for a Best Screenplay Adaptation Oscar for his reconfiguration of "Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner" by former cut man F.X. Toole. Toole's writing supplies the film's life blood, a knowledge of boxing and its people while Haggis supplies the kind of formulaic cliches you'd expect from a guy who wrote TV shows ranging from "The Love Boat" to "Mr. Sterling" for twenty-nine years before writing and directing his first film, "Crash" (which apparently was never released in theaters or on video).The situation in Toole's story has emotional impact but it's a good thing "it's not a boxing movie" because everything about the character's rise to the top is unbelievable. And the "movie about a boxer" is about what you'd get if some truly talented actors starred in a made-for-tv movie.
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