In 1975, a Bayonne, New Jersey underdog boxer gets a shot to fight the champ.In 1975, a Bayonne, New Jersey underdog boxer gets a shot to fight the champ.In 1975, a Bayonne, New Jersey underdog boxer gets a shot to fight the champ.
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10canecop
Excellent. Never a dull moment. All star cast, Great script and different levels of story telling. We now know why Chuck Wepner is the Real Rocky
The acting and the script in this film are so incredibly bad that I have to believe it's bad on purpose. Especially Muhammed Ali, his character portrayal is nothing short of a hysterical comic.
Asking his opponent to call him the N word. I'm a pugilist fan, but this film really shows the underside of this dark sport.
Acting was strong. Story was strong. I was engaged until the final act. The writers didn't close. Flat and disappointing ending.
The question is this: Who was dumb enough to give these amateurs the money to make this horrible movie? To call this a cliche boxing movie would be an insult to all of the cliche boxing movies out there. It's hard to identify all of the individual areas where this movie suffers, because everything about it was bad. If you are an aspiring filmmaker, you'll draw inspiration from this. Because if these filmmakers are capable of making a movie that is prominently featured on Netflix, so can you. To give you an idea of how bad this movie is - one of the actors portrays Sylvester Stallone. This particular actor was a very overweight man with pock marked skin and a heavy east coast accent. I don't mean to be insulting, but he looked nothing like Stallone and it was preposterous to watch. I'm genuinely embarrassed for everyone attached to this project. This movie is about Chuck Wepner, "the underdog who went the distance with Muhammad Ali." The only problem with this point is that Ali TKO'd Wepner in the final round of their 1975 fight. Do your homework, fellas.
Did you know
- TriviaJames Brown sang in the ring for the Muhammed Ali fight vs Chuck Wepner and did a pre-fight performance onscreen in "Rocky IV," which starred Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa as inspired by Chuck Wepner.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Cine-Masochist: CHUCK WEPNER VS ROCKY BALBOA (2021)
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Дебошир
- Filming locations
- Patterson, New Jersey, USA(location)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m(95 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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