Jake Gyllenhaal got buff and shows off his acting chops playing "Billy Hope" - an undefeated, professional boxer in the movie, "Southpaw". This isn't your average boxing flick, this is an intense, gut-wrenching and heart-breaking movie about a Light Heavyweight champion boxer that suffers a great loss outside the ring and has to overcome many personal battles before climbing back to the top of the boxing world.
This movie also features Rachel McAdams as his wife, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as his former manager, and Forest Whitaker plays his new manager for his comeback. I thought "50 Cent" was going to be the bad guy who is responsible for "Billy's" loss. But it turns out he's just an asshole traitor (and a surprisingly decent actor). The actual perpetrator never faces any consequences in the movie and that leaves a big part of the story unresolved.
It was an incredibly simple plot, but it's a really good movie that gets the audience emotionally involved with the story. Gyllenhaal really brings this character to life and makes you almost feel his pain, he's such a great and versatile actor, it makes it so realistic! I enjoyed watching this action-drama film so much, I didn't even notice it was 2 hours long. I give "Southpaw" a 8 /10.
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