Movie Review: Annapolis

Hated it! It's mostly a movie about boxing. And if it were categorized as a "boxing movie" it wouldn't be a good one. Let's say that Rocky was rated as a 10. This movie would be around a 2 or possibly a 3 with forgiving judges. The guy gets accepted into the Naval school. No real background other than he had to nag a bunch of times to get a recommendation. Then he gets in, struggles with the whole teamwork concept, has a hard time listening to people, and decides to join the boxing competition and eventually gets his ass kicked in the ring even though he shows a good fight. Every time he gets knocked down, everything goes to slow motion and he has flashbacks to things and people that are important to him...yadda yadda. After about the 4th time was knocked down and it went to another slow motion sequence, I was checking my watch. I figured the movie could have been around 30 minutes shorter without all the slow motion crap. One time...two times...ok it adds a dramatic effect. After awhile, it just gets boring. Then of course he falls for one of his trainers. There's a whole thing involved there too that has nothing to do with the school itself. The movie is just about this guy's first year in the school. It's not really a story specifically about anything. It was pretty difficult to tell which direction the movie was going in at any given time. Then all of a sudden, the movie was over and I went on with my life.