Strictly average movie

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Girlfigh a coming-of-age story about boxing and love, its also Karyn Kusama's directorial debut, telling the story of how a girl finds herself in the world of boxing.One does not see many movies about women's boxing so often actually there very few. Diana lives with her brother and single dad, Sandro, in a housing project in Red Hook. Each week Sandro pays a local trainer to put some meat and muscle on his son, but when Diana decides she, too, wants to be a boxer, he refuses. With dogged determination, Diana begins a grueling training regimen, the discipline, cunning, and humility required to be a contender are the cold shower Diana needs to focus her ambitions. But when she falls in love with a promising amateur, her priorities are forced into burning focus...it looks like a good plot, but here is when the movie looses me for a movie about a female boxing there's not much of that, she spends the majority of the movie fighting men,there is a sole fight against another female witch is done pretty well it capture exactly what should look like when two people are boxing,but after that she only goes against men.surprisingly in this world which Kusama tries to give a real perspective of what is boxing in the shoes of a woman,decides to create a inter gender tournament because its so hard to find opponent's in a city like New York, were Diana and her love interest face one another,mixed boxing which is not sanctioned by any legitimate governing body, and are almost always intended to be a display in erotic exhibitionism.If the intention was to see how a woman can beat a man by sheer determination It never goes well in combat, because the man is in a no win situation on one hand he beats a woman which our society sees it as the outcome of the contest in the other hand he looses to the women he is seen as a weakling, besides we only see Diana train a few months and have ONE amateur sanction bout in the hole movie against the only female fighter in the movie and her love interest as been fighting for alonger period so in terms of skill and experience its more likely he would whip the floor with her.Do all female boxers have to best men to prove their equal? or they can show as great athlete's by besting themselves.The ending is very unrealistic for the simple fact that this type of tournament would exist and be sanctioned by the state of New York, had this movie been set in a state were only football is the only sport would make a more interesting scenario were the lack of support and opponents is more visible but NY is the cradle of the golden gloves.

Well I must admit that I had expected something more in the likes of "Rocky" here, just with a female lead instead, but it turned out to be something more of a 'coming of age' story rather than a hard-punching boxing movie.The story in "Girlfight" is about a girl who is quite a tomboy, and she wishes to take on boxing, much against the wishes of her father. Training is hard and laboring, but the girl is determined to pull through. Love also comes knocking on her door as she falls in love with a fellow boxer at the gym, but the way to the top is not easy.What made this movie work out, was the atmosphere during the training scenes and the atmosphere in the boxing gym. Plus the performances put on by Michelle Rodriguez and Jaime Tirelli, as they really carried the movie nicely.There is a fair amount of late teenage stuff in the movie, which may or may not be suitable just for anyone. And some might certainly think that it is slowing the movie down, and I believe that would be those who come to watch this movie for the boxing scenes. (Which I initially did in the beginning.) For a first movie appearance, then Michelle Rodriguez really pulled it off nicely here and establishes her characteristic face on the map.I went into this movie with one expectation, but the movie turned that around and made me walk away with something else entirely. "Girlfight" is quite a good movie, entertaining and fun.

OK, let's get serious here, this movie is just Karyn Kusama's feminist fantasy of sex role reversal and hatred of men put to film.Spoilers**** Spoilers*******We have the rejection of motherhood in the beginning where Diana looks down upon the mother and children from above- yes this was planned.Diana is fairly masculine in appearance and attitude but is showcased as being 'feminine' by the reactions of others outside of her father. So the new definition of 'feminine' gets established as no longer being soft and empathetic but hard, strong, and muscular (masculine).We have the always present abusive father who also happens to 'support' those bad traditional and 'sexist' roles found in intelligent cultures everywhere across the globe.We have the 'tiny' effeminate brother, helpless before the might of his sister when she beats down and nearly strangles her father in the kitchen. Tiny boy represents Kusama's acceptable role for a male as he can do nothing but beg his sister who now rules the house.Lastly we have the ridiculous love interest named after Rocky Balboa's wife, Adrian, who falls in love with Diana but then must fight her in the ring... um yeah right. So in a nutshell Diana beats up all the men in the gym, finds a surrogate father who shows her that, physical reality be damned women can do anything. She then beats her up father, and then beats up her boyfriend who then begs to have her back when it's all over! Kasuma fantasy is pretty simple- she covets male power, hates men, and despises femininity, so her answer is the fantasy of women becoming men (while still being labeled women) and for men to turn into women or just disappear entirely.

I saw this film for the first time last night and absolutely loved it.Michelle Rodriguez's performance was amazing (especiallty as it was her debut movie) she was completely believable as Diana the tough troubled girl.I liked the way that in the movie not everything worked out to provide a perfect ending, like how her Dad never saw her win her big fight and there was never a soppy 'I love you daddy' scene, it just showed a snapshot of her life and I am sure she would have continued to struggle and fight for what she wanted pretty much for the rest of her life.I also liked the ambiguity about her relationship with Adrian at the end, because after all this movie is not a fairytale!An excellent movie with brilliant performances from all especially Michelle.