Million Dollar Swank

NOTE: The following is intended to speak about this film for an audience who may or may not have seen the movie. So, if you are reluctant to read further because you are scared my "review" might ruin the movie, then fear not for I am thinking about you my friends...

There is not a whole for me to say about this movie. But I'll find something to ramble about, don't you worry. I generally don't like talking in great detail about a movie this good with people that may not have seen it. I believe that for one to wholly enjoy a movie it is best to go in with as clean a slate as possible. Which is why I normally avoid reading a film review until I have already seen the movie so as to form an opinion as genuine as possible on the film, allowing me to hate whichever pretentious dick is reviewing it in my school's newspaper. This movie however, is one of those movies that every critic has to like or else they will be run out of town with torches and pitchforks and boards with nails in them. I will try to keep this as general as possible so as to not taint the film for those who like me, stick to the "tabula rasa" mentality of film viewing. In order to do that I think I will just focus on the actors in the movie and not reveal anything specific about the plot except that it is about boxing. Which if you dont know then you're just weird because its on the movie poster and in all the comercials you freak.
Hillary Swank is awesome in this movie and she is going to win the Oscar so is Morgan Freeman. I love Morgan in this movie just as in every film I see him in. He is in another one of the movies that I watched over winter break, The Big Bounce, it is a movie based on another Elmore Leonard novel so it is in the style of Get Shorty and Jackie Brown. That movie sucks ass, its not very good at all and I don't recommend it unless you have a lot of free time and a stomach for bad movies--such as myself. In The Big Bounce Morgan Freeman is shat on with a shitty script and a shitty movie altogether but despite all that he is still awesome. So when you take Morgan Freeman and put him in a movie like Million Dollar Baby it's a knockout combination (get used to the puns people). So if Freeman can be awesome in a shit movie just imagine how great he is in one with a million dollar script. Also what i just said applies to all the lead actors in this movie. They all have a shitty movie that they were awesome in: Clint Eastwood was awesome in the sucktastic Blood Work, and Hillary Swank was the best thing to ever happen to Beverly Hills 90210 not to mention her claim to fame The Next Karate Kid.
So as we can see each of these actors have participated in the creation of at least one shit fest but have all come together to make this movie. But let's talk about Hillary Swank for a moment. I never knew she was this hot. If you know anything about Boy's Don't Cry (don't worry I'm not gonna ruin it) you know that her role doesn't allow her to look as sexy as she can. So when I first saw her in that and previously in 90210 I was not very impressed. However, I can say with confidence that in Million Dollar Baby she is hot^2 (squared). Also, I remember watching The Next Karate Kid and there is one scene where Mr. Myagi walks in on her while she is changing and we get to see her in her bra, and while I thought it was awesome when I was 14, it's not so great anymore. My main reason for bringing that up is that I really hate the fact that they turned The Karate Kid franchise into a stupid movie with situational comedy. Come on let's be honest Pat Morita you're better than that, it's things like the "bra scene" that forced you to make Collision Course with the likes of that chinfucker Jay "Lame-o" Leno. That pissed me off, but luckily Swank's career was able to survive the "bra scene" and she already has one Oscar and will very soon have a much deserved second one. So please people do yourself the favor and check out this film, it is high quality and worth a million bucks at least.