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Hands of Stone

2016

Jonathan Jakubowicz

Edgar Ramirez, Robert De Niro, Usher, Ana de Armas ...

6.0

2,033

Drama. Action Follows the life of Roberto Duran, who made his professional debut in 1968 as a 16-year-old and retired in 2002 at age 50. In June 1980, he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard to capture the WBC welterweight title but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in the November rematch, saying 'no mas' (no more).

	Author	Review
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"Nice Robert De Niro celebration, routine boxing movie (...) The results were not as fabulous as the ingredients suggested they might have been"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"If there were a virtual arena where boxing movies could slug it out and Hands of Stone and Creed could go up against each other as middleweight middlebrows, Creed would probably win on points — but not by a huge margin"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'Hands of Stone' (...) gets the job done, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that you’re watching a routinely conceived, rather generic boxing flick. It’s utterly competent, yet it makes Duran’s story seem a little so-what?"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A rousing, well-filmed and solid biopic (...) with a bounty of charismatic performances, two of the sexier scenes of the year, some welcome laughs and a few above average fight sequences (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Even for a boxer, the Roberto Durán portrayed in 'Hands of Stone' is a lout (...) [A] trite and vulgar boxing flick (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"True story of Panamanian boxing champ's rise and fall punches short but gives Robert De Niro a knockout role (...) Jakubowicz knows how to muscle up momentum and bring the best out of actors (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"Falls victim to too many trite boxing-movie clichés and is in way too much of a rush to cover too much narrative ground. It sometimes feels like you’re watching it with a finger on the fast-forward button"	NEU
United States	Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"A movie that doubles as a cautionary tale about the importance of film editing (...) Rating: ★1/ 2 (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"'Hands of Stone' lacks definitive punch (...) Even though the film can’t focus on one subject, Hands of Stone does boast notable performances from its leads, especially Ramirez (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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