Clint Eastwood's latest movie, Million Dollar Baby, is up for a great bunch of award nominations and is surely bound to win a few. It's a film about a female boxer and a famous trainer (Eastwood) who is reluctant to train her simply because she is a girl. It sounds like an over used formula that wouldn't be of much entertainment, but Eastwood actually turned it into a great film. The plot could have been one as simple as that, but there are a lot of extra dynamics added to the mix such as the wise training gym janitor (Morgan Freeman) who used to be a pro boxer himself. The lighting and overall "color" of the film really made it stand out giving the movie a dark and moody atmosphere on top of the emotional plotline of the story itself.
4 stars
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