Hands of Stone

No Mas                                                                             1/5


Standout
    De Niro...for the most part

True Story
     The story of Roberto Duran is one worth telling








Rotten Tomatoes 45%                                 Cinemascore: N/A

I walked into Hands of Stone void of expectations. Before this film I hadn't even heard of Roberto Duran, which is what made my experience watching this movie all the more disappointing. The action isn't impactful, scenes are scarcely directed well, and the script is saturated with fat and fluff. All this is frustrating because there seems to be a great movie to be made behind this story, it just wasn't captured onto film. For what its worth De Niro steels almost every scene he's in, its good to see him not mailing in a preformance for a change. Ramirez, as Duran, was strong and Usher, as Sugar Ray Leonard, wasn't awful. Hands of Stone is a poor movie with several strong performances, maybe in a couple more years we can get a movie about Roberto Duran that does both.