Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Philly Kid (2012)


A local wrestling hero breaks up a robbery and spends 10 years in prison for killing a guy. This sets up as a fairly generic hard luck/true heart story. Our hero has to survive crooked cops, other peoples debts, gangsters, a trainer who tries to hamstring him.. about the only one not bird dogging him is the paper boy screaming "Two Dollars!". We have all seen this movie a dozen times before, think a reboot of Lionheart (1990) although I am sure there are more recent examples (funny IMDb gives Lionheart a 1.3 better rating when the two are basically the same movie.. go figure). Anyway there is some cool MMA style cage fights that don't come with a Rocky theme song so thats refreshing. Easy watching you may want to catch when cable is showing it 4 times a day.

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