Grudge Match

Is it Perfect?, No but I did like it a lot. It was a lot of fun. Everyone aside from the child actor and Kevin Hart were good and pretty entertaining. I agree with another reviewer that it did kind of seem like another chapter in the Rocky saga, however I found that it played out more like "Play It To The Bone" filtered through the Rocky Balboa mold. Bottom line it made me laugh a couple of times but most of all I had a smile on my face almost the entire time.

If it's a Stallone boxing flick, I'm there - repeat viewings of Rocky and of its sequels make that a certainty. And this movie does offer the increasingly rare pleasure of non-action hero Stallone. It takes way too long to get to the fight though. In the best Rockys you hit the climactic fight at the perfectly satisfying moment. Here it's like "FINALLY!" And the obviously still-powerful Stallone vs. 2013 De Niro is an absurd and unintentionally comic visual. (But it's still better than Rocky V.)

A nice little film,had a few good laughs.Nice how the two of them take the mickey out of each other.

Rocky Balboa vs Jake La Motta and the story was pretty good also the fight was great but of course Bobby D and Sly were great together.

When it got out I thought trying to squeeze something out of Rocky and Raging Bull was too gimmicky. But actually they pulled it off quite nicely. The references to the specific scenes in the movies were well sprinkled in the movie. It is slightly above average comedy, but with such low expectations I enjoyed it.

Uhhh Stallone would rip DeNiro in half like an old wet soggy phonebook every time. Great restraint by the filmmakers in not having an old wrinkly ballsack droopin past the boxing shorts and flappin around during the match it takes us forever to get to, I wouldn't have been able to handle it.

I actually dug this screenplay. Some thought that this was overall a bad movie but really it's not that terrible. I did enjoy it, for it's cast of course. I love De Niro and Stallone is a good actor too. If there's any flaw in the movie it's Kevin Hart. He's a funny guy but he just didn't fit in as much as the others. That and it's too often stereotypical. Arkin always makes me smile. Overall, not a bad movie thanks to the chemistry between the leads and an alright screenplay.

Film this 15 years ago and you have a shot at mildly entertaining. Now it's just a a few chuckles with a cast that genuinely seems like they are having fun.

Cinematic diarrhea churned out by a Hollywood landscape bereft of original ideas and has now resorted to WWE "what if" match ups. Piss weak phoned in performances by two guys who are obviously "doin' it for the money, adrian." Watching this is like having sex with a fat girl. It doesn't feel that good during the act and a deep sense of shame and regret accompanies the deed. This also has a screeching black man who I thought was Chris Tucker at first but turned out to be a bad imposter.

It was okay. Basinger is charming as hell. I can't believe she has turned 60. Kevin Hart is funny, he is just in the wrong movie. His comedy was not for this. - Okay

This is just lame.

Rocky vs. LaMotta could have been great, if it had been made 30 years ago...

Aint realistic at all. But its not fantastic iction either. Cast and acting nice. Screenplay is solid but .. choreos .. And please for the god's sake. There is a thing in boxing callin as "guard" .. Which we cant see for this movie.

B-

This particular old timers' reunion could've been brilliant or absolutely terrible, eventually slotting neatly somewhere in between. Accessible to all, it's a very easy watch that stays just the right side of predictability to keep you interested. Perhaps I would have enjoyed this more had the cheesiness - personified by Jon Bernthal - remained at more palatable levels throughout: it almost manages it, but can't resist forcing you to reach for the sick bucket as the climax nears.

The "plot" is more properly a succession of cliches, but it actually manages to remain rather funny, and it's the only boxing movie I have ever seen without nausea. Pleasant enough way to pass the time.

This film has one really good joke. The two leads try their best but they have both been in a lot better films about boxing than this one before. The script is weak and uninspired. You should watch Rocky or Raging Bull instead of this movie.

I thought this movie wasn't nearly as bad as the users and critics have been saying. It was a pretty entertaining comedy for the most part.

Much better than I expected; it might be the best Sly Stallone movie I've seen in at least 15 years. Kevin Hart was funny, as always, but Kim Basinger was terrible; was she always such a bad actor? Both Sly and Robert De Niro were great as aged former boxers. Their characters were well-written, and I found myself not knowing who to root for in the titular grudge match.

It probably would've been better if they had made it a bit earlier, it wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen but it's a pretty middle of the road affair. It's nice to see De Niro and Stallone share the screen again though.

It's cute that they preserved Stallone as a hero and De Niro as a sort-of anti-hero (castrated by his likability), but Rocky vs Raging Bull this ain't.

Grudge Match is one of the most desperate ideas for a film I can recall. I've grown up loving Stallone & De Niro. And the 10 year old in me wanted Rocky Balboa vs Jake La Motta to be great. But realistically it's stupid and ultimately it's just a cringe worthy parody just trying to cash in. I love the Rocky films, but this is one boxing outing too many for Stallone. And I give up with De Niro. Arkin is fun in a supporting role and the fight is worth a watch, but otherwise it's a tired gimmick.

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(Viewed on 08/06/14): Grudge Match can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy or drama and feels phoned in by everyone involved. What's the point in getting these two movie legends together for such a rinky dink plot? The whole project has the air of a pseudo-event; a wacky concept concocted by an MGM studio executive 25 years ago when it would have mattered. Pointless but watchable for the two leads if you are a fan.

A funny and entertaining but very mediocre film that has its moments.

Enjoyable for what it is. Slightly less annoying than expected, slightly funnier than expected, with Stallone and De Niro clearly enjoying themselves. Passable.

1245: not bad!

Didn't need to be 2 hours long and my two favorite scenes are during the credits. Too many bad jokes.

58.500

Worth seeing for the Tyson/Hollyfield cameo in the post-credits, with Kevin Hart trying to negotiate a rematch at Wembley. The rest of GM? Well, it is sad to see these two actors kind of returning to their best roles -- boxing dudes dealing with love, hate and anger --, but what the film lacks in charisma -- something many recent dinosaur-driven actioners have --, it delivers with a curious self-depreciative tone.

Come on really!??

This movie was a total TKO... and by that I mean it almost put me to sleep. This film managed to almost ruin the Rocky movies and Raging Bull for me. The comedy was pretty flat, even from Alan Arkin which I love quite a bit. The movie goes just like the fourth Indiana Jones movie went "Oh gosh I'm old" "I'm getting fat", "I can't handle action scenes like I used to with my arthritis"...

Rocky vs. Raging Bull could have been fun if the screenplay could have went for the throat. This premise needed some imagination, but alas, it's a completely safe movie with scenes that run awkwardly too long and have little flavor. DeNiro does fine, but Stallone sleepwalks through the movie.

Lots of bad jokes but some good ones too, and the drama side of it works better than expected.

I wonder how Stallone still manages to pull off nice boxing/action movies :D Just makes the cut to be termed as a decent watch. The two legends deliver what it takes to sail the movie home.

Lame.

Had a feeling I was going to hate this film but it was actually alot of fun! There were several funny one liners and a decent enough story to keep you interested. Im still not sure why De Niro has to do these movies but considering the shit hes done recently (The Family) this one wasnt awful!

I didn't hate it or anything, but Last Vegas delivers more laughs and is the more consistent overall product; and at any rate, I don't think the market needed two old-guy dramedies wherein De Niro settles an old argument released in a two-month period. Sporadically funny, mostly inoffensively watchable, but never even comes close to "good".

not bad. but it's NOT the standard comedy you may expect from trailers and reviews. it's a lifting sports drama with some (very) dark comedy peppered in for taste. good film but it's not for everyone. watch if a fan of the actors. a fan of boxing or like soap operas.

Boxing is the movie's theme, but it's really about redemption from past mistakes. Unfortunately Grudge Match didn't make me care about either front. This movie was made to sell on the strength of it's aging stars, not it content. Might have been better if they canceled the fight

It's a schlumpy comic remake of ROCKY BALBOA with a watered-down Jake LaMotta shoehorned in. Nobody's working too hard on either side of the camera--I spent most of the movie wondering if the two leads looked so tired because they were acting, or because they really were just frigging tired. But I guess the movie does putter along amiably enough, and it's worth sitting through for an amusing, genuinely satisfying ending. Mostly forgettable, though.

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I thought it was quite funny, and so did the theatre I was in. It's pretty mean-spirited, but I'm not even saying that as a criticism because the digs everyone took at each other made me laugh. I liked watching Stallone and De Niro verbally spar and then actually fight. It was a good time.

But Grudge Match isn't about making art as much as it is about providing another payday for its two stars--not unlike, come to think of it, the fictional grudge match it boasts. And for Plugged In's purposes, it's pretty grimy and very coarse. More salacious jokes are thrown around here than fists by the final bell. Bad language lands a series of shots to the gut. And for me, the KO comes in the form of an 8-year-old's innocence serving as an awkward, off-color punch line. (pluggedin.com)

Grudge Match almost comes close to working but the majority of both the comedy and drama falls flat, leading to a relatively dull two hours watching the movie. It feels uninspired, as if it's just going through the routine. The only bright spots come from Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin in comic relief, and the end fight -- which we all know is coming, meaning any forced drama the film throws at us that might end up canceling the fight carries with it no tension; we know how it ends.

Rocky 7! Grudge Match is basically another Rocky. The beauty of the Rocky series is Stallone is getting more dramatic and more powerful as he ages. Honestly 3 and 4 didn't do much for me. But Rocky Balboa blew me away! This is another experience that will blow you away, but not the way you expected!