I liked MDB up until the big event. After that it became so melodramatic and tried so hard to jerk emotions out of me. I just can't stand that when it's so obvious and doesn't feel like it flows naturally from the rest of the movie. It had some good qualities though--the cinematography and performances were all superb, and the boxing sequences were staged and edited well enough. Paul Haggis was probably the problem. I had the same feeling in the final acts of Crash, too.
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