Split Decisions (1988)
1h 35m | PG-13
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Director: David Drury
Studio: New Century Entertainment Corporation
Genre: Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Gene Hackman
as Dan McGuinn
Craig Sheffer
as Eddie McGuinn
Carmine Caridi
as Lou Rubia
Jennifer Beals
as Barbara Uribe
Jeff Fahey
as Ray McGuinn
John McLiam
as Pop McGuinn
Reviews
"Split Decisions" has a very heavy reliance upon a selection of stereotypes we have seen countless times before and there is more than a faint whiff of "Rocky" (1976) wafting around in the air - in the best possible way of course. And even though you spend much of the running time negotiating the gamut of familiar characters and situations on offer this still manages to be a very vivid and absorbing film which makes for strangely compulsive viewing for some inexplicable and unfathomable reason. The boxing sequences themselves are extremely convincing in their portrayal of uncompromising and unrelenting brutality and even though the web of events which has been woven is concluded in the most abrupt way imaginable which is much too convenient for its own good it sure as hell beats the alternative of having a plethora of inconclusive and unresolved loose ends.