5/5 Darkness and light, a part of life!
  by Ankur Mukherjee
The film is quite unusual, but overwhelming enough to have my eyes glued and had my attention maintained on the screen. The film has one of the best onscreen chemistries you will really enjoy. "Shadowboxer" the very film is based on Mafia and Underworld, But there is something that makes it different from just another action flicks, the film throws enough light on life and relationships. Miren and Gooding has an excellent chemistry, having the unusual relationship yet so strong, so beautiful to watch. The film is dark, erotic, moreover very flamboyant and you will definately not be bored at all. The film has many moments to have you sit back and just admire the charecters. The film has such a lot to offer! They make you feel their joy, pain, grief, they make you think how it would be to be in their shoes. They make you think if life has dark stormy nights, it also welcomes warm sunny days. Its a film worth watching more than once. Very genuine, neat and decent filmmaking here!

5/5 Fast Delivery
  by Martika C. Rhoden (Jacksonville, FL USA)
I rcv'd my item in like 2-3days. The DVD is in excellent condition, and it's a movie that I had seen years ago, and wanted it in my collection. I get all my DVD's from Amazon! Quick, and inexpensive. I mean who can beat 1 cent on movies, even with the S & H it's still less than Wal-Mart or any place else. I would buy from this user again!

2/5 The Two Stars Are For Stephen Dorff!
  by nina
Let me be honest at the risk of sounding shallow. I ONLY bought this movie because I love Stephen Dorff with a passion so I checked it out.

This movie is not the worst I've seen but it's not the best either. It's very disjointed and the plot is choppy and many things do not make sense. I think the unneeded violence and sex was thrown in to keep the viewers from dozing off. Dorff is wonderful and though he has some bad movie choices, he always makes the best of the roles given him. He does not disappoint and plays the perfect Clayton. Cuba Gooding Jr. is dry and boring. Helen Mirren is just as boring. Joseph Levitt, Monique and Macy Gray were entertaining and Macy should have been shown more! She brought spunk to this dry movie. The lady who plays Clayton's wife wasn't the best actress and though she's very attractive and her character is upheld as a decent person in the film, her colligen-pumped lips made her look like some sleazy porn star.

There were too many unbelievable things in this film like the various couples! I could not buy Helen and Cuba as a couple no matter how hard I try. Helen Mirren looks like an old bag. She is not an older woman who would attract a younger, fit man such as Cuba Gooding who could have any woman he wants. I think the director wanted us to buy that this romance was out of circumstance and yes, couples do fall in love because of that at times but there was no way that I thought Gooding's character would look at Mirren in a sexual way. If anything he'd think of her as a mother figure and that's how it should have been written. It would have been more touching that way. Their sexual relationship was sickening and gross.
Joseph Levitt and Monique were an interesting looking pair together but they didn't fit as well. Levitt looked like a twelve year-old boy and I could not see how he or Monique would be attracted to each other. Maybe if his role had looked more mature, you could see it. Also he's too young looking to pull off even the "young" doctor character convincingly. The coupling in this film was plain silly and laughable. The only couple that seemed interesting and who fit together would have been Gooding and Macy Gray yet he had to kill her!

There were too many characters which made the plot more confusing. Sometimes characters wouldn't be shown for a long time and it was as if we're supposed to remember them. Please. A big problem I had with the plot is that as Clayton's son grows up when the years go by, everyone stays the same and looks the same! Couldn't their appearances change? The characters had the same hair styles and looked just as young years later as when the film began.

If it hadn't been for Dorff then this movie would have gotten one star. It's just too confusing, boring and silly. The director tries to push this as a top notch, thrilling film noir but it doesn't work. Better luck next time, Lee.

1/5 Shadowboxer
  by Samantha Stevens
I must have gotten a bad copy, I would like to receive another one because this dvd stops so many times during the movie and you can't fast forward it will start at the beginning again. The movie is great one you do get a chance to look at it.

5/5 Shadow Boxer
  by Yetiv A. Knight (Baton Rouge, LA)
This movie is action packed and filled with all my favorite stars like
Cuba Gooding, Jr. , Monique, and Macy Gray to name a few. This movie
kept me on the edge of my seat.