A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
A miscast Ryan struggles with a Detroit accent and a script that goes nowhere.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb 2004
rotten:
What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness.
– Laura Sinagra,
Village Voice,
24 Feb 2004
fresh:
Somewhere along the way, I found myself enjoying Against the Ropes, not in spite of my better judgment, but because something in the movie defies the whole notion of better judgment altogether.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
21 Feb 2004
rotten:
So anemic you should probably order iron supplements with your popcorn, its plot so predictable it makes falling dominoes seem like a white-knuckle thrill ride.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
20 Feb 2004
rotten:
A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.