Blu-ray Review: ‘Grudge Match’ is Strictly Lightweight

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CHICAGO – This forgettable time waster is mildly amusing as long as you don’t let yourself go into mourning over Robert Deniro’s career. But then again that almost goes without saying these days. Likewise Stallone who has had far more interesting career choices in the last decade than this. The pair play retired boxers who comes out of retirement for one last fight. One for the paycheck. The other to settle an old score.

HollywoodChicago.com Blu-ray rating: 2.0/5.0
Rating: 2.0/5.0

Both have a hate/hate non-relationship with the other. The catalyst for their big bout is the quippy but often obnoxious Kevin Hart who was presumably cast to draw in an audience that has never heard of Rocky or Raging Bull. Alan Arkin plays the grumpy old trainer who verbally spars with Hart. There’s little energy on display here comic or otherwise. Worse, there’s a pointless subplot thrown in involving an illegitimate son that just makes the movie seem like it’s reaching for emotional straws.

The extras on the disc are every bit as perfunctory as Grudge Match itself. You get a couple of vanilla featurettes and two truly boring moments in which Tyson and Holyfield discuss the fictional boxers of the film

Grudge Match
Image credit: Warner Brothers

“Grudge Match” stars Robert Deniro, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 8, 2014.

HollywoodChicago.com contributor Dave Canfield

By DAVE CANFIELD
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