Very obvious, very earnest and a little overwrought.
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01/01/00
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Price of Glory (2000)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:18
Rotten:38
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Weak script and predictable story undermines the intensity of the film.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: PRICE OF GLORY tells the uplifting story of Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), a former boxer who lost his chance at glory when a greedy promoter pushed him into the ring prematurely. Still reeling from... [More]
Starring: Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Ernesto Hernandez
Director: Carlos Avila
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Reviews for Price of Glory
Top CriticTelegraphs every punch.
01/01/00
When the film suddenly turns into Rocky -- as all boxing films of the past two decades invariably do -- it invalidates its theme.
01/01/00
Goes down for the count in a hodgepodge of emotions and familiar boxing-movie conventions.
01/01/00
Everything is spelled out with thudding obviousness until the film's one stab at originality - a Latino family at its center - is KO'd, too.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's not the TKO you hoped for, but you will get your moral victory.
01/01/00
The road to glory is often paved with good intentions, but so is the path to mediocrity, which exactly where Carlos Avila's well-meaning drama heads in no time.
12/28/04
The sense that Berger ... brought the sport to the table while Avila made the family element flesh is probably accurate. But the twain meet often enough to create sparks.
01/01/00
What's peculiar is that the film doesn't build toward anything because even as the boxing careers flourish, the character of Arturo drags everything down.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere are enough such moments, thanks mainly to the actors, to make Price of Glory worth the price of a ticket. The conviction of those who made it overcomes some pretty blatant cliches.
01/01/00
For boxing fans, it's a must see; and a solid video rental down the road for most everyone else.
01/01/00
Directing newcomer Carlos Avila doesn't always generate the emotional impact the drama deserves; it has the look and feel of a nondescript television film.
01/01/00
Not particularly well acted, it overstays its welcome and proves simultaneously predictable as a sports film and unconvincing as family drama.
01/01/00
Top CriticPrice of Glory isn't awful, it's merely pointless.
01/01/00
The specificity of Glory's setting and the ethnicity of its characters enrich the story without moving it one iota away from a mainstream frame of reference.
01/01/00
Top CriticFirst-time screenwriter Phil Berger, who has covered the sport for The New York Times, relies heavily on clichés but somehow manages to make this melodramatic story take off.
01/01/00
As the film unspools to the final reels, building to a predictable resolution with yet another kinetic, well-filmed fight sequence, it's hard not to be absorbed by the story of the Fighting Ortegas.
01/01/00
It may know what it's supposed to do to succeed, but is too flat-footed, throws too many weak punches, and telegraphs most every move to the point that it will never have a chance of being seen as a champion.
01/01/00
Absent the excitement generated by the powerful theater speakers as they pound out the Latino music, what we have is not much more than a made -for- TV film.
01/01/00
While the intentions are good, Price of Glory is never confident enough to push the boundaries of the sports drama mold.
02/01/01
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