"An uninspired and undirected performance from Sydney Sweeney means there's a fatal lack of power in this movie from director and co-writer David Michod. It manages to be unsubtle without being powerful. His subject is Christy Salters Martin, who under the grinning tutelage of Don King became the world's most successful female boxing champion in the 90s and 00s but faced a misogynist nightmare outside the ring."
"The film fails to deliver the power of the traditional boxing movie, or the real importance of a story about domestic abuse and coercive control, or the sensory detail of true crime. It relies on the simple fact of a woman pioneeringly taking on what had once been solely a man's sport and relapses into cliche. Christy, with her frizzy hair and brown contact lenses, doesn't seem to plausibly develop as a character throughout the film."
An uninspired and undirected lead performance by Sydney Sweeney creates a fatal lack of power in David Michod's movie. The narrative follows Christy Salters Martin, who became the world's most successful female boxing champion under Don King while enduring severe misogyny and domestic abuse. The film fails to capture the emotional force of the boxing genre, the gravity of coercive control, or the sensory texture of true crime. It leans on the novelty of a woman entering a male-dominated sport and falls into clichés. Characters like Christy's mother and her husband-manager are portrayed cartoonishly, and Christy's character arc remains implausible and underdeveloped.
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