I was finding something to watch for the weekend and then I found this. It’s a boxing film of course. But don’t you expect to see a lot of actions in most of the boxing films, I tell you. Most of the boxing films are totally DRAMA, and so is this one with boxing in it.

I really want you to see this one, even though you hate drama because it is really good and you will think the same after you watch it because everyone who has seen it loves it. However when it was first released, it didn’t make a big hit. I think it’s because people didn’t think they will like it at the first, just like you now think whether to trust what I’m saying here or not. So let me tell you, if you don’t completely hate drama that much, you will love this boxing movie for sure as long as you don’t expect to see loads and loads of fighting and action scenes.

“The Boxer” was released in 1997. The director was Jim Sheridan who really did a great job. And the main characters starred by Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson could and already impressed the viewers.

The movie is a story of a guy named Danny Flynn, a boxer and former Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer, played by Lewis, is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his past in IRA activities. He attempts to “go straight” and build up a new life, starting a boxing gym for young people in his old home and training them as young boxers like himself, with no political or sectarian ties. He also tries to reconnect with his woman he left behind when he had to go to the prison, played by Watson. However this past always catches up with him and will not let him live a peaceful life.

So that is just something you can spend your free time doing. It is a really great kickboxing movie. I can assure you that again and again. And I don’t want you to miss it.