Southpaw

Southpaw tells the riveting story of Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Junior Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World (Jake Gyllenhaal). Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an adorable daughter (Oona Laurence) and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis (Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future riding on Tick's guidance and tenacity, Billy enters the hardest battle of his life as he struggles with redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.

This movie was well acted and you can see how much Gyllenhaal put in to this role with how jacked he got.  It definitely hooks you that you care about the characters and their paths.  But it all honesty the movie is incredibly formula in every way and basically a big mashup of all other boxer movies that came before it.  

I would somewhat recommend people checking this movie out.  It is a good watch but is pretty formula and repetitive.