Before I Go to Sleep ****

LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

The perfect example of a film that never required re-making, especially since the new version turns out to be such a clunking disappointment. You cannot improve on perfection.

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