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Strength and Honour (2007)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:2

Rotten:15

Average Rating:3.9/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some violence

Runtime: 1 min 44 secs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 7, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $51,933

Synopsis: Set in Cork, Ireland, STRENGTH AND HONOR is a boxing drama with heart. The film stars Michael Madsen as Sean, a young boxer who accidentally causes the death of his friend with a punch that proves... Set in Cork, Ireland, STRENGTH AND HONOR is a boxing drama with heart. The film stars Michael Madsen as Sean, a young boxer who accidentally causes the death of his friend with a punch that proves fatal. Seven years later, Sean's wife dies of a hereditary heart condition, and he promises his dying wife that he will not box again. But when their young son (Luke Whelton) starts showing sings of the same illness, a widowed Sean finds himself in a moral dilemma as well as in debt. With hospital bills piling up and insurance companies screwing him over, Sean must give up his home and move with his son to a trailer park. It's there that Sean is faced once more with the appeals of boxing. Forced to choose between staying true to his word and boxing to pay for the costly operation that could save his son's life, Sean puts all his anxiety into the ring, risking his own life in a fierce underground bare-knuckles boxing battle against the Smasher (Vinnie Jones). Mike Mahon's directorial debut offers a glimpse of Irish culture and some beautifully photographed landscapes. Overall, the film moves slowly, its solemn pace only broken up in parts by intense action and violence. Madsen skillfully pulls off his role as an unlikely boxer forced to risk it all. [More]

Starring: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain

Starring: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain

Director: Mark Mahon

Director: Mark Mahon
Screenwriter: Mark Mahon
Producer: Mark Mahon
Composer: Ilan Eshkeri
Studio: Slowhand Cinema

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10/18/08
Drew Toal
Drew Toal
Time Out New York

Director-screenwriter Mark Mahon is unable to inject any freshness whatsoever into this highly formulaic genre piece, though he has elicited several good performances.

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12/13/07
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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The script delivers a series of low blows to the intelligence from which auds will never recover.

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12/11/07
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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Not even a contender for the DVD bins, to which it'll be banished before the eight count.

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12/08/07
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

For the most part the film moves along at a nice clip and provides an interesting glimpse inside the endlessly fascinating world of the Travellers.

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12/07/07
Cathy Suhocki
Cathy Suhocki
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Under Mark Mahon's by-the-numbers direction, Strength and Honour is a standard soaper that might be helpful to watch when you're suffering from insomnia some night.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
12/07/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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There is not a real character to be found, nor a single convincing punch thrown. But I do like the name 'Smasher'.

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12/07/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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With a lowered chin, squinted eyes and gravelly voice, Madsen emotes in convulsions, his awkwardly expressed scenes of grief and interactions with his adolescent co-star lingering onscreen uncomfortably too long, as if more time would exhume feeling.

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12/07/07
Annlee Ellingson
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

Mr. Madsen fails to elevate this earnest morality tale, written, produced and directed by Mark Mahon, above excessive banality.

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12/07/07
Laura Kern
Laura Kern
New York Times
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Relentlessly dismal and dismally predictable.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
12/07/07
Sid Smith
Sid Smith
Chicago Tribune
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The movie follows so resolutely in the footsteps so many many other sporting movies that we're way ahead of the story arc.

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12/07/07
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The dialogue and production values are both cheap.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly | comment Comment
12/06/07
Josh Bell
Josh Bell
Las Vegas Weekly

In addition to having a lame script, Strength and Honor is saddled with characters that are not to be believed.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
12/06/07
Meg Jones
Meg Jones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Madsen's iffy Irish accent is no more believable than the fights, which look even more staged than the polar bear brawls in The Golden Compass.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
12/06/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
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Schlocky.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
12/06/07
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
L.A. Weekly
 
 
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