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Split Decisions

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.

Top Cast

  • Gene Hackman

    Gene Hackman

    Dan McGuinn

  • Craig Sheffer

    Craig Sheffer

    Eddie McGuinn

  • Carmine Caridi

    Carmine Caridi

    Lou Rubia

  • Jennifer Beals

    Jennifer Beals

    Barbara Uribe

  • Jeff Fahey

    Jeff Fahey

    Ray McGuinn

  • John McLiam

    John McLiam

    Pop McGuinn

  • Eddie Velez

    Eddie Velez

    Julian 'Snake' Pedroza

  • James Tolkan

    James Tolkan

    Benny Pistone

  • David Labiosa

    David Labiosa

    Rudy

Overview

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.

Rating

5.1 / 10
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  • kevin2019
    kevin2019
    6 Mar 15, 2024

    "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.

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