To me, this movie is perfection.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

"Grudge Match" is certainly a fun and entertaining movie, although it was also somewhat of an odd movie at the same time.Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro do play their parts quite well. There is a good cast list to support the movie, and people were definitely doing good jobs with their given roles and characters. And there is a good storyline with lots of flavor and background.The movie did, however, feel a bit long dragging in the build up to the actual match between Stallone and De Niro.And while we are on the fight, then it was rather enjoyable to watch.All in all, an entertaining movie although I feel like some parts of it could be been more polished for a better final product.

I would not say this a good movie. If other people like it that's fine. But it is a fact this movie has violence and cursing. So how is that a family movie? This movie is boring. It is badly written. There are so good actors in this awful movie. They wasted there talent. There writer are awful. There hummer sucks. This is not a good movie for the Christmas season. Because it has nothing to do with it. To guy that are boxer that do like each other have fight each. With a lot of cheap laughs to make it really stinky. This is not a 6.4. This is a pooh pooh. Story but it is true. The kid in this movie is stupid. Like most kids in a Hollywood movie.

After many years of wishful thinking, we finally get to see the ultimate showdown of Rocky versus Jake LaMotta....to a degree. Obviously, the characters in Grudge Match are not the same characters listed above, but they are played by the same actors, thirty plus years later. The film itself is actually a very good film....if you can take older men with no shirts. But the film is an excellent drama and is a lot funnier that I thought it would be. There were some great, though somewhat cheesy lines of dialog. I like how the film is not just about boxing, but about the characters. In fact, the actual boxing scenes are relegated to only like twenty minutes, if that. Peter Segal's film is about two Pittsburgh boxers: Henry Sharp and Billy McDonnen who are the worst of boxing enemies. Sharp decides to retire early after being defeated by McDonnen. Thirty years later, fate comes a-calling when a promoter named Dante Slate Jr. offers each of them a good deal to bring one last fight to the table: to fight a grudge match.I thought the film had fine acting. Robert De Niro is a very talented actor and it was nice to see him back in the ring, 33 years after Raging Bull. Sylvester Stallone managed to do a good job bringing back his inner Rocky. Kevin Hart added a funny presence as the promoter, Dante Jr. Alan Arkin added lots of humor, admittedly most about old-age, to his elegant performance. Kim Basinger was very good as Sly's former lover and Jon Bernthal as De Niro's long-lost son. Overall, Grudge Match is actually a quite humorous and moving film that managed to stay entertaining. It doesn't reach the scale of Raging Bull and Rocky, but it's not meant to. That does not stop the film from making some excellent inside references to those classics. A very entertaining movie, though I could use an ending that was not so abrupt. I rate this film 9/10.

*Spoiler/plot- Grudge Match, 2013. Two up and coming fighters in the same weight class hold a vendetta between them over a girl and the boxing title's belt. Many years later, they come back to clear the record.*Special Stars- Sly Stallone, Robert De Niro, Kim Basinger, Ireland Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Jon Bernthal.*Theme- Give your best and you don't have to regret the outcome.*Trivia/location/goofs- Canadian, Most people think this film was a Sylvester Stallone project, but according to Robert De Niro he got the script first and quickly came to the conclusion that Stallone would be the best choice to play his opponent. Stallone himself was actually quite reluctant to do the film at first, as he did not want to parody Rocky (1976) and De Niro had to talk him into it. Stallone himself claimed that he had a harder than usual time training for the role since he was taking a break from action roles and had stopped working out.*Emotion- This film is a clever plot and has a 'heart'. Both leads play the full depth of emotions for their role. No doubt their film careers gave them plenty of experience. Not sure how much acting was involved here. A good film to see and experience.*Based on- Lossely based on DiNiro's and Stallone's major fight film career moves and loses.