Bleed for This (2016)

• Year: 2016
• Released: 18 Nov 2016
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 win & 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620935/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bleed_for_this
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/bleed-for-this
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
• Runtime: 117 min
• Writer: Ben Younger, Pippa Bianco, Angelo Pizzo
• Director: Ben Younger
• Cast: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal
• Keywords: biography, sports, boxer, underdog, fighter,

	6.8/10
	62/100
	70% – Critics
	69% – Audience

Bleed for This Storyline

In November 1988, Vinny Pazienza boxes Roger Mayweather for the WBC World Light Welterweight Title. He arrives late to the weigh-in, as he has been riding a stationary bicycle in order to make the weight limit. Vinny’s final weight is 140 pounds even, which qualifies him for the fight. Instead of resting up for the fight, Vinny spends the night at a casino. The following day, he loses to Mayweather. At one point during the fight, Vinny is hit after the bell. His boxing manager Lou Duva causes a scene by going after Mayweather, but is punched as a result. Following the match, Duva tells the media that Vinny should retire from boxing. This angers Vinny’s father Angelo (who serves as his coach), and he confronts Duva. In the ensuing argument, Vinny announces that he wants another fight, and hires Kevin Rooney as his coach.

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boxer biopic

This is a biopic of boxer Vinny Pazienza. He’s an obsessed gambler. His boxing is faltering after three consecutive losses. Even his manager advises him to quit in a TV interview. As he makes his comeback, he gets into a car accident on his way to a casino. He is endangered of never walking again. Despite the dangers, he secretly trains with his head halo brace. At first, no one is willing to fight him due to his injury but with some media attention, he gets a title fight with champion Roberto Durán.

This is sorta like Rocky without the romance. My only drawback is that I don’t love Vinny. It’s not that he’s mean-spirited or villainous in any way. It’s more like he’s self-destructive and not in a loveable way. Maybe they could downplay his gambling instead of highlighting it. He’s bull-headed which could work during his halo section but it’s already used-up by his gambling. Some parts work better than others. The biopic aspects work even if I don’t like the content sometimes. There is a stereotypical reality to the characters and Vinny has my grudging respect.

It is easy to give up

The film is based on the true boxing story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller). It starts with his defeat in November of 1988 to Roger Mayweather (Peter Quillin). It appeared his career was a wash and after a training music montage he won the second fight of the film, 30 minutes into it with the training help of Aaron Eckhart, going whiplash all over Gilbert Dele. The fight was a set up and he was expected to lose. Paz gets into an auto accident and the bulk of the film is about his remarkable comeback.

The film skips a few fights in between. Paz didn’t go from training to title bout as the film portrays, forgivable for time considerations. I thought the acting was excellent, decent New England accents. At the end of the film you get to see the real characters on which the production was based and they looked were remarkably similar. Good casting. Good film for the genre. Good sound track.

Guide: F-word. Nudity ( Noelle Trudeau, Christine Evangelista)

Power of the Will

I don’t know if you like boxing. And even if you “like” it, if that means you do it yourself or you just like watching it. I reckon if you sit back and kind of detach yourself from it, you may start thinking “Why?”. Why would anyone want to do that and risk their own health? But as the movie and life in general shows, risks and other things are all over our daily life.

Maybe you can understand what drives someone like our main character, it is not that it will be served on a (silver) platter – you have to feel it and get it through smaller things that happen. This being based on a real character, a man who fought as hard as one can imagine … it is quite something to watch unfold. Whether everything played out exactly as it is shown – I can’t tell. But I know I was expecting something at the end … let’s say it didn’t quite happened as I thought it would … which will tell you something about me, once you’ve seen the movie I reckon.

Great performances and the boxing scenes are well done too. A lot of reaction cuts during the fights … which I thought worked … just mentioning it.