Boxing movies have been as much a part of the movie industry's storytelling arsenal as the Western... There's the cinematically rich sleaziness that surrounds the boxing world, bookies and gangsters, the temptations of easy money, drugs, floozies. We've seen it all before. "Chuck" does nothing new, and it moves through boxing tropes like it's ticking off checkmarks, but there's an honesty to it, a fresh and messy one.
Sheila O'Malley
May 5, 2017