Play It to the Bone

a bit heavy handed to me in the overall sum total of what i thought about this film...a bit of looking for cheap laughs and a bit of actually funny...best thing to me were cameo apearances in the last part of... Full review

Man Vince Boudreau(Harrelson) & Cesar Dominguez(Banderas) Kill Each Other In This Film. The Boxing Scenes In This Movie Are Brutal. Both The Fighter Are Absolutely Dead And They Keep Going Which Makes For Great Drama.... Full review

Play it to the Bone magnificantly displayed a battle between two best friends. Getting to know the characters bit by bit, and loving them equally, one can't decide which to root for by the climax. The film shows the true inner... Full review

Woody Harrelson & Antonio Banderas were absolutely great in this boxing showdown. They pummel each other into the ground during their fight and the blood flows like water from a fountain. Just what any guy likes to see.... Full review

Woody Harrelson & Antonio Banderas team up in this great film and deliver with great boxing scenes and great acting. Many people dont know about this movie but they should... Full review

With the Tyson fight coming to Vegas, organisers Hank Goody and Joe Domino have put together quite a few big names on the undercard. However when one of their fighters turns up drugged out with two hookers and his opponent... Full review

When you think of sports films, one name comes to mind: Ron Shelton. Five of his last six directorial efforts, not to mention writing efforts like "Blue Chips," have been about sports. "Bull Durham," of course, is his touchstone film, but... Full review

This movie had some great boxing scenes. The hits looked real and the cuts and bruises did too. The only problem with this movie was it was a little over two hours. Instead of flying to Las Vegas, they drove... Full review

‘Play It To The Bone' is really two movies. One is a movie about boxing and the other is a comedic character study of the boxers. As a boxing film it succeeds nicely. As a comedy it has its moments.... Full review

Title: Play it to the Bone.Personal Comments: And now the boxing story begins... In this movie see how best of friends punch... see how the "powerful-rich" people manipulated and cheated their uneducated boxers, see how the boxers love their girlfriend,... Full review

That's what we've been saying from the start but it's too late to save this film which is bound to give the dubious "sport" of boxing an even worse name, if that's possible. After so many zany road movie antics the tone switches dramatically and disastrously as Banderas and Harrelson hit the ring for the most bloody, bruising and sickening fight you've ever seen.... ... Full Review

As a result he didn't pay enough attention to creating an engaging and credible story.....This probably explains why the $24m film fared rather poorly at the box office.....Spanish heart-throb Antonio Banderas pulls no punches in his new movie Play it to the Bone.....I can only assume that, here, a talented director's love of the ring got the better of him.....Shelton claims boxing is his favourite sport..... ... Full Review

Yeah, theres some good pugilism, but 90 minutes of badly scripted road movie dont make up for that. Most of the plot slowly unfurls as a tiresome buddy-buddy road movie, with Woody and Tony bickering, quipping and circling around mutual love interest Davidovich all the way from LA to Vegas. ... Full Review

Play It to the Bone" is surely going to be too raw for some audiences, but it does pack a punch, and no small degree of its pleasure is in its assured craftsmanship. R, for brutal ring violence, strong sexuality, including dialogue, nudity, pervasive language and some drug content. ... Full Review

The movie giveth to the poor and it taketh away, and in the end that's not a happy thing. Banderas turns out to be the only one in the movie who's honestly likable. Low blowsput 'Bone'on canvas Banderas stays likeable when the movie gets mean ... Full Review

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I didnt watch Play It to the Bone I sat through it. If youve ever seen a boxing match where you wish the guy who was knocked down didnt get up, just so it would be over, you know what... ... Full Article

Director Ron Shelton sure loves sports! He's made a golf movie, a couple basketball movies, a few baseball movies, a hooker movie, a football movie etc, etc. ... Full Article