Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Overrated

Load of rubbish!!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This was okay. For the most part, I enjoyed Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson in their roles as washed up boxers with "issues" and the boxing scenes themselves are quite well done however as a comedy it failed.The storyline was mediocre, following two aging fighters and best friends who get a chance at the middleweight title (and purse) providing they can get to Vegas in 24hours and then fight each other. The story is mostly a road trip with Antonio's current and Woody's ex girlfriend/promoter along for the ride and to create conflict. The guys do have good chemistry though and along the way we get flashbacks of their careers and competitive friendship over the years.The final fight in Vegas was the best part of the movie, exciting and well choreographed in a Rocky sort of way. I really wondered who was going to win. A bunch of fun cameos in the audience too (Mike Tyson, Kevin Costner, Wesley Snipes, George Foreman etc) and the announcer was familiar. I'm assuming this was also one of Lucy Liu's first roles, she is so young here.03.13

"Play it to the Bone" was almost a good sport themed film with some good performances by Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson and Lolita Davidovich. As I said almost a good film because it tries too hard to be a funny experience, finishes in a very obvious way and in the end it has nothing much to say.The premise is good and the story has its moments. Woody and Antonio play two boxers who have many things in common: both of them were called to a big fight in Las Vegas, they're gonna have to fight each other; both of them are coming from shameful defeats and they're traumatize with that; and both of them dated the same women (Davidovich) and they're gonna take her along with them driving all the way by car. This part of the film is a road movie with good moments, when some of the laughing parts appears when Woody's character shares his about Jesus or his sexual relationship with a crazy nymphomaniac (Lucy Liu); Banderas goes well in funny scenes where he's dumped by Lolita's character, and his story of how he become gay for one year after losing a fight for a gay boxer.When these characters get to Vegas the movie slowed down, it becomes a sleepy and not interesting experience, although some parts of the road movie doesn't work very well, it was difficult to pay attention to some of the things which is quite odd if you consider that this is just a simple entertainment.The third act is the so awaited fight and it drags down for too long, starts without any kind of appeal from the part of the extras (you can't hear no one cheering in the audience) and the cameos from actors like James Woods, Kevin Costner, Tony Curtis and others who are there to try to make this event more interesting but they don't speak at all and that is disappointing. Some of Woody's delusional moments during the fight were distracting, slowed down the fight's rhythm, intended to be a funny thing, well it wasn't. The rest of the fight and its ending are great, but predictable all the way.Master and commander of this film Ron Shelton is a good creator when the deal is to make good sport themed films. He gave us "Bull Durham" (baseball), "White Man Can't Jump" (basketball), and "Cobb" (baseball again) all equally great, but from 1996 with his weak "Tin Cup" (golf) his career started to slowed it down and "Play it to the Bone" almost got there along with his best films but it lacked enthusiasm, more interesting moments and the sport itself only appears in the ending and in some flashbacks, something that doesn't occur in his previous works. Again, the principal cast is good, it also has some good performances from Richard Masur, Tom Sizemore, Robert Wagner (even though his last scenes were so dull) and there's some enjoyable moments, but it never recovered his potential. 5/10

I just saw this movie the other day and, unlike some reviewers, I had a problem with the fight scenes. I thought they were too unrealistic.First off, let me say that I loved the celebrity cameos at the arena; they certainly added a touch of realism, and having Lucy Liu's character show up with Rod Stewart was a stroke of genius. But I thought it too unrealistic the way the two boxers slugged each other without lingering effect. How many times did one of them get knocked down and struggle to barely get up at the count of nine? Too many to count. And in real boxing matches, whenever someone struggles to get up at the count of nine, it is all they can do just to hang on until the end of the round. Yet in this movie, each time someone gets up at the count of nine they immediately launch a counteroffensive that has their opponents on the ropes. They just does not happen in real life.Am I nitpicking? Perhaps, but it ruined the film for me.

This actually wins the award for the worst movie I've ever seen. I give that award seriously. I've seen everything. At one point in this movie I said, "If she (Lolita D) laughs again for no reason in that annoying way, then I'm going to turn this off." seconds later she laughed for no reason in that annoying way for about the millionth time in the movie. I turned it off and have never seen the ending. One day I will muster the courage and watch it again. Like torture. to make me appreciate good movies. This movie is so canned that it looked like it written and directed by the same person...Hey! IT WAS written and directed by the same person. Ron Shelton. Classic movie idea of the week that fulfills his contract and Woody's and Antonio's. What did the story sessions sound like in Shelton's head?"Let's make them doctors....no, basketball players. No, that movie has already been made. Didn't I make it in 1992? Oh, yeah. How about boxers? Yeah. And they'll be totally out of shape. Or maybe I'll just direct the fighting in such a way that you can't tell they are out of shape. yeah. and they'll drive for 60 minutes from L.A. to Vegas so I can keep it under budget and take care of that favor I owe the guy at MGM. Sure. And there will be a prostitute. And they will take bathroom breaks. And there will be expensive cars. We want the 15 year old kids who are stoned and who snuck into the movie to be happy. So the hooker will have sex on a pile of tires. Yeah. that's funny. Will we need a script? Naw. why bother? we need to make this movie in six days because I've got to go to Hawaii to play golf. So no script. And if we can't get Antonio Banderas then well use Lorenzo Lamas. No one will know the difference. Or maybe Woody will just talk to himself and we'll treat it like a David Lynch movie. They will ad lib everything. The important thing is to imply a lot of raunchy sex and to waste as much time in the desert as possible. And when in doubt we can just play Motown songs for 11 minutes. That will keep the stoned kids awake."After that Shelton wrote this down on a napkin and got his agent to broker the deal. a week later the movie was in the can. a month later it was in a video store collecting dust. five years later I picked it up because I'd seen everything else. an hour into it I sat with an absolute blank look on my face and announced "If she laughs for no reason one more time..." the rest is history.