Resurrecting the Champ Reviews

What ever happened to Josh Harnett? At some point, following 'Pearl Harbor', he seemed to be on the verge of becoming the next best thing but it never really happened. Apparently, he refused a couple of high profile roles like Superman for example to focus on some smaller movies with a supposedly higher artistic value. Well, this movie was one of those but, I have to admit it, the story was pretty good. Unfortunately, I had some trouble to connect with the main character. I mean, I'm not sure if we should blame Josh Harnett since this character was not really well written and you never really know if the guy was actually an opportunistic douche-bag who manipulates everyone to get what he wants and even lies to his kid to impress him or a talented writer who really loves his son. The other thing that bothered me is that they tried to convince you that this reporter was careless and that he didn't do his job properly but I didn't buy it. I mean, he didn't make it up, he made some research, his assistant made some research as well and he even got a video were the guy was actually fighting the other guy he was impersonating (such a convenient but preposterous gimmick to move the story forward). And, suddenly, all this material that they couldn't find was revealed when 5 minutes before that there was nothing to be found about this boxer. Still, in spite of these flaws, it remains a pretty good story with some great potential and I still think it is worth.