Shadowboxer

What director wants to show sodomy and full frontal nudity when the guy is finished to make his movie better? The idiot that made this movie and the producers that paid for it. What a waste.... Full review

Breaking conventional rules, Shadowboxer is dark, sexy, and very violent. On many levels the movie is uncomfortable to watch. All of the characters are flawed and the brazen sexuality and raw emotional performances, by a superb cast, is hard to watch... Full review

When the actual film is so different from what the critics--professional and amateur--have said about it, one knows that the film must have something all too significant to say. Instead of the USA equivalent of Isabelle Huppert in "Ma M... Full review

Quite an amazing film. Visually sumptuos with vivid colors, visceral and stunning, in its filming and choeography. Okay, go ahead and bash it - it's wierd and demented and nobody seems to be acting or it's lacking in plot and dialogue.... Full review

This movie is out of the norm, because it was not the typical hollywood "cookie cutter" film. It was not a movie I had seen a dozen times, where they tweak the storyline, use different actors and change the characters names.... Full review

Now we know what a big budget Ed Wood movie would look like. Working from a script by an Academy Award nominated writer, with two Academy Award winning actors and a Spirit Award nominated cinematographer, director Lee Daniels manages to deliver... Full review

This is a movie you love or hate. I loved it. First, the "preposterous plot." Helen Mirren is a gorgeous woman. I had no problem believing Cuba's character would desire her in addition to be utterly loyal to her and dependent... Full review

Here is an excellent story that is tarnished by poor acting and/or the lack of chemistry between Mirren and Gooding. Very fine supporting performances by Vanessa Ferlito and Stephen Dorff are some compensation, as is the lyruic quality of many of... Full review

As another reviewer stated, this movie does break rules. But is that enough? And through all the rule-breaking, there still is a core/central storyline that does seem familiar, to say the least. OK so some people will/might be offended by the... Full review

Wow...I guess I'm the only person who loved this film. I thought it was deep and intriguing. You've never seen Cuba like this before. Most of the time he said nothing in the film, but his presence was ominous, and yet... Full review

Robert Koehler of Daily Variety said the film is, "magnificently rendered by Daniels... The Philadelphia Inquirer said audiences will be "riveted", while Filmmaker Magazine said it was a "stylish, art house thriller. ... Full Review

Shadowboxer" is something of a mess....there's a strong subplot covering incest in the threadbare script by William Lipz....The characters are cold-blooded assassins, and they act accordingly.....There are blunt moments in the film which demonstrate Daniels has some ability as a filmmaker....it's a film that wants to set itself apart from the routine hit man cinema agenda..... ... Full Review

Their ill-fated love story aside, Shadowboxer is otherwise a kinky, killer-for-hire crime saga. The cast of this high body-count affair includes comedienne Mo'Nique and gravel-throated songstress Macy Gray, both of whom do a decent job, despite being abandoned by a bizarre script. ... Full Review

If so, it had better be a good screenplay. One of the problems with the hired-killer-with-a-heart plot is that it is simply hard to swallow. ... Full Review

The film's gorgeous cinematography....a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt....a noirish crime thriller about loyalty, loss, love, and guilt.... ... Full Review

The rocker is joined by Mo'nique and Paula Patton in the cast. Taking foray into film industry, Lenny Kravitz will make his big screen acting debut in an independent film feature titled " Push (2009/II) ", Variety has reported. ... Full Article

She may have been making a name for herself with a recent slew of high-powered acting projects, but Macy Gray is getting back into the swing of things -- on the music front. ... Full Article

The emotionally-charged, full throttle thriller Shadowboxer comes to DVD on November 7, 2006, from Codeblack Entertainment. Fresh off of a successful, summer theatrical release campaign, Shadowboxer on DVD will provide an even larger audience the opportunity to experience the film's... ... Full Article

Lee Daniels Makes Directorial Debut with Sadistic, Incestuous Snuff Film Shadowboxer marks the eagerly-anticipated directorial debut of Lee Daniels who was previously best known as the producer of Monster's Ball, the Jungle Fever flick for which Halle Berry won an... ... Full Article

Clayton (Stephen Dorff) is one of those outsized movie villains. He's the sort who wears his designer shirt unbuttoned and beard slightly fuzzy, shoots his minions when they fail him, and keeps a zebra on his front lawn. ... Full Article

As if the month of July wasn't hot enough, movie theatres across the country will have to crank up the air conditioning as Lee Daniels, unleashes his highly combustible directorial debut, Shadowboxer. ... Full Article