ThiefHott Too much of everything

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Wordiezett So much average

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Well I must admit that I had expected something more in the likes of "Rocky" here, just with a female lead instead, but it turned out to be something more of a 'coming of age' story rather than a hard-punching boxing movie.The story in "Girlfight" is about a girl who is quite a tomboy, and she wishes to take on boxing, much against the wishes of her father. Training is hard and laboring, but the girl is determined to pull through. Love also comes knocking on her door as she falls in love with a fellow boxer at the gym, but the way to the top is not easy.What made this movie work out, was the atmosphere during the training scenes and the atmosphere in the boxing gym. Plus the performances put on by Michelle Rodriguez and Jaime Tirelli, as they really carried the movie nicely.There is a fair amount of late teenage stuff in the movie, which may or may not be suitable just for anyone. And some might certainly think that it is slowing the movie down, and I believe that would be those who come to watch this movie for the boxing scenes. (Which I initially did in the beginning.) For a first movie appearance, then Michelle Rodriguez really pulled it off nicely here and establishes her characteristic face on the map.I went into this movie with one expectation, but the movie turned that around and made me walk away with something else entirely. "Girlfight" is quite a good movie, entertaining and fun.

ronspolar2 I saw this movie twice. I thought Michelle Rodriquez was quite believable in her role; nice balance between being a tough yet feminine. Family situation also fairly realistic. I liked the way she handled her father. I thought the situation in which she found herself with her boyfriend was a twist I didn't anticipate. Made the movie suspenseful. I thought there were some good lessons for young people in this movie; finding yourself, not giving up, trusting, respect, what is love. There was no down time with this movie. It was suspenseful. When I watch a movie and I feel totally exhausted by the end and hate to see it end; I know it was a good movie. Such was the case. The relationship she had with her boyfriend was refreshing. I wish the movie was longer. I wanted to see how her career evolved . I would have liked to see whether her father could figure out how to have a relationship with her. Definitely a "new age" girl. Highly recommend this movie.

johnc2141 I have become a huge fan of Michelle Rodriguez ever since machete,i think she is an awesome screen presence,beauty and brawn,a tough streetwise pretty woman.girlfight is a very well made independent movie about a tough young girl who wants to become a boxer.its like cross between rocky and the karate kid.she trains hard to become a boxer in the mainly male dominated sport,shes at odds with her father and her classmates.not to give any spoilers away but the movie and the acting especially by Michelle Rodriguez are excellent.after this film Michelle went on to star in two fast and furious films,avatar,blue crush,s.w.a.t. and the best out of all of them;machete.i think that Michelle Rodriguez is by far the best action star and actress of the new millennium.i enjoyed girlfight more than million dollar baby with Hillary Swank.all i can say is Michelle Rodriguez is an one of a kind actress who is a combination of beauty,brains,and brawn.with attitude.

Robert J. Maxwell Michelle Rodriguez is a well-built high-school senior who discovers that she has a powerful punch and begins amateur training at a Brooklyn gym. Santiago Douglas is a a handsome young man, barely older than she, who also trains there. They meet after class, so to speak, and feel attracted to each other. No sex. Santiago has been instructed to save it for his next bout.Both are participants in a "gender-blind" athletic program that makes no distinctions between males and females, a misguided attempt to level the athletic playing field.A conservative radio commentator recently announced -- and I swear I'm not making this up -- "Let's face it; the president is black." I'm here to make an equally perspicacious observation -- "Men and women are different." Now, in 99 cases out of 100, this needn't make any difference in physical performance. But in the top one percent -- trained athletes whose skills have been honed to a fine edge -- men generally have the advantage. With their narrow hips they can run faster. And they have greater muscle mass and upper torso strength. These differences in body build make it possible for women to give birth and raise children and for men to catch and kill food for them. This sexual bifurcation is the result of the perfectly normal process of natural selection. Without it, there might not be any humans at all. And that, boys and girls, is why they have men's events and women's events at the Olympics. I speak to you as your anthropologist. That will be ten cents, PayPal preferred.That's why I called this gender-blind program misguided. As talented a boxer as Rodrigues is, as she approaches the zenith of the game, she will eventually lose to a male.That's where the complication arises in this movie. Rodrigues is finally matched against her boy friend, Douglas. Neither wants to loose any anger on the other, not to mention roundhouse rights, but the pride of both is at stake, and the pride is both personal and gender related. Douglas refuses to fight a woman in the ring. And Rodriguez is offended by what she sees as his patronizing attitude. It ends happily.I wasn't really expecting much from the film. I thought it would be a rip off of Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" until I discovered that this was released years earlier. And I'd never heard of the director or of any of the performers. That sort of obscurity generally augers ill -- made-for-television weepers and so forth.But I was surprised at how neatly this is put together. The total absence of bathos left me open mouthed. So did the minimal use of boxing clichés -- the frayed ropes, the blood, the cutting of the swollen eye, the battered post-bout faces, the fat and sweaty onlooker shouting "Kill him!", the slow motion landing of glove on nose, the spray of sweat from the mauled head, the heroic music signaling the long-awaited apotheosis of the victor. None of that here -- well, almost none. The whole plot could be considered formulaic. Tough kid finds outlet in the ring, etc.The feeling you're left with is that this is probably pretty much what these amateur contests are like. Different from those we see on TV and in ordinary movies. No bells ring, for instance, Instead a dancing and observant referee yells "Stop!" And "Box!" The contestants wear head gear. The gym is populated not by a crowd of cheering spectators, but only by a handful of people who have some particular interest in the goings on. It's a clean movie, despite the rather grim setting and the unhappy family dynamics.Michelle Rodriguez can look pretty mean, what with her muscular bulk and her eyes glowing under her lowered brow, but once you get used to the idea that this is a girl who can beat you to a pulp anytime she wants, and once you hear the feminine contours of her supersegmentals, she ain't bad. (A scene in which she battles her father to the floor is overdoing it.) It was a little hard to understand Douglas's restraint when Rodriguez crawls all over him in bed. The director, Karyn Kusama, has chosen her talent carefully.Shows what you can do with some talent, imagination, and a modicum of money. There ought to be more films like it. Take one of those multi-billion dollar blockbusters full of dinosaurs or space ships and spread the generosity around a little.