![]() ![]() To say that is amazing would be an understatement. And the amount of training and effort she put into this. ![]() Still I don't think anyone can knock her performance in this movie. It is as tired as Jackie is of her life.ĭo I love Halle Berry? I think I would be lying if I said I didn't. The screenplay goes through all the formulaic moves from boxing films. The trouble is that this is a movie that is so unoriginal. Berry deglamourises herself and puts in a solid performance. Bruised is a gritty drama of a single black mother trying to pick herself up. She works with a grizzled trainer Buddhakan who also has a more assured relationship with Manny. After getting involved in a fight, Jackie gets an offer to return to the MMA and a championship fight. Jackie is not mother material and Manny is distraught and wordless since his dad died. Manny lived with his father who has suddenly died. One day Jackie finds out that she needs to look after her son Manny from a previous relationship. Jackie has a volatile relationship with her own mother. Her boyfriend is also her abusive manager, Desi. Since then she has been doing deadbeat jobs and her glory days are behind her. Berry plays Jackie Justice, a MMA fighter who tried to escape the cage in her last fight where she was getting beat. Halle Berry makes her directorial debut in this bruising fight drama. ![]()
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