Review – Play It to the Bone

Um, tell it to the hand. This is one of those movies that’s just trying a little too hard to be quirky and clever. Ostensibly it’s about a couple of has-been boxers trying to get back in the game by fighting each other as the first bout on a Tyson card. However, by the time the movie is over there’s a whole lot of road picture and more than just a few gay bonding buddy gags. Once the duo finally makes it to Las Vegas and gets the fight underway, the production’s not too bad (though again a bit overwrought). Unfortunately, the fight itself takes up only a small percentage of the total running time, most of the rest of the picture given over to an endless car ride through the desert colored by uninteresting, empty-headed dialogue and implausible plot twists. The cast (including Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas in the leads) gives it a good try, but they just can’t do much with the terrible script. See if desperate