Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

A professional fist fighter wants to retire, changes his mind after an irrefusable offer, is convinced by his close friends to change his mind again, but the fight promoters are gangsters who won't accept his backing down. He makes friends with his rival.

I found this sequel (to a film I remember nothing of) tedious from start to finish. I think the film is ultimately about itself, and film producers' incapacity of refraining to make an extra buck with a sequel that adds nothing to the original and will mostly hurt their artistic integrity (or what there is of it). Only this is not how it is shown in its fictional construction; in it greed is given a make-over to look as guts.

Rating: 11

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