By Emilio Frenk
Director: Ben Younger
Cast: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds, Christine Evans, Amanda Clayton and Ted Levine.
Rating: Excellent.
Ben Younger, writer/director of “Boiler Room” brings “Bleed for This” and once again he delivers.
Based on true events, “Bleed for This” tells the story of boxer Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller) who suffers a major car crash accident that almost left him paralyzed.
Now Vinnie is with his family and trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart) who is helping him with his rehabilitation now that Vinnie is wearing a halo that protects his neck and spine.
A desperate Vinnie is not willing to give up and submits himselfwith the help of Ronney to a training that could cost his life and makes one of the biggest comebacks in boxing history squaring off against Roberto “Hands of Stone” Durán, making it one of the greatest matches in boxing history.
“Bleed for This” is one of the best boxing movies of this year because it doesn’t have any cliché moments and the story line is straight forward.
Ben Younger wrote a brilliant screenplay and directedthe movie with so much precistion that the result was a great movie. This is so far one of the best performances of Miles Teller, who had his breakthrough role and received critical acclaimed for 2014 “Whiplash”.
He has been getting better and better with this type of performances. The chemistry between Teller and Eckhart who previously worked in the 2010 drama “The Rabbit Hole” gives great results and Eckhart makes a huge comeback portraying Kevin Rooney with so much realism.
The only thing that I was hesitant with “Bleed for This” was the use of one flashbacks that were used during the third act of the film. Other than that the movie is brilliantly acted and has a wonderful screenplay.
Hopefully we can see both Teller and Eckhart score Academy Award Nominations for Best Actor and Supporting Actor.
This is a moving and inspiring story with a deep message on not giving up. And this can be a huge example of people who are struggling and I encourage you to watch this inspirational film.
“Bleed for This” is one of the year’s best films and I give a huge recommendation and is in the level of movies like “Rocky”, “The Fighter” and “Warrior”.