Édgar Ramírez, left, and Usher Raymond in Hands of Stone. A montage shows her birthing five children, but the next sequence shows her with the exact same figure, wearing a cropped shirt. Naturally the young woman (played by Ana de Armas) ends up becoming his wife. He’s cocky and rude and a scene in which he harasses a schoolgirl could be shown to sex offenders undergoing court-ordered counselling. Kudos to Ramírez for somehow making Durán likable in the first half of this film. Wisely, director Jonathan Jakubowicz lets the images do the talking. The criminal underworld is represented by flashes of John Turturro, lit by ominous streetlamps, reminding Arcel “We run things!” It’s such a parody, one expects to hear the Saturday Night Live audience laughing after each line.īut join forces Durán and Arcel do, and their training sessions aren’t that bad. A virtuous man driven only a by a pure love of this noble sport (you know, dudes in their underwear giving each other concussion), Arcel was run out of boxing by the local “wiseguys”. In June 1980, he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond) to capture the WBC welterweight title, but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in their November rematch, famously saying the words 'no mas' (no more).Arcel has his own issues. HANDS OF STONE follows the life of Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez), the Panamanian fighter who made his professional debut in 1968 as a 16 year-old and retired in 2002 at the age of 50. Hands of Stone will hit theaters on August 26. Much like the character at the center of the story, the film itself has a high bar to reach. It’s here, in the post- Creed era, where he find Hands of Stone. In addition to a Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination for Stallone, the Ryan Coogler film was universally hailed as one of the best nostalgic sequels (or whatever you want to call the trend). Although the Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle was once dubbed as an early awards contender, the critical reception was lackluster and stopped its Oscar prospects in its tracks. We’ve seen a solid amount of boxing movies in recent years, including Southpaw.

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