Release dates
August 15, 2017
94 months agoVOD / DVD / Blu-ray
Released
Chuck release date
The movie Chuck is already released on Cinema, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 15 reviews, Chuck gets an average review score of 69
Chuck, originally called The Bleeder, is Liev Schreiber’s shot at a sort of heavyweight triumph.
2910d ago
Very well-made, very sweet-natured and very, very familiar: how strange that Philippe Falardeau‘s “The Bleeder,” a based-in-truth film about pretty much the definition of a confrontational sport —boxing— should feel cosy as a down comforter from beginning to end.
2910d ago
This meandering drama about Chuck Wepner, the journeyman boxer who went 15 rounds against Muhammad Ali, proves there’s life left in the genre.
2910d ago
Liev Schreiber dons the gloves of Chuck Wepner, the prizefighter who stood up to Muhammad Ali and inspired the movie character Rocky Balboa.
2910d ago
Chuck isn’t attempting to reinvent any wheels, but it is consistently gripping — slick as a skip rope and just one hell of a story.
2910d ago
Chuck Wepner, the "Bayonne Bleeder," the boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1975 and—famously—knocked Ali down in the 9th round (equally famously, he lost the fight when Ali knocked him down in the 15th), was also known as "the real Rocky" (apparently it was something he touted often), the guy who was the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone's scrappy underdog Rocky Balboa.
2910d ago
With Chuck, the boxer who inspired Rocky gets his own corny redemption story.
2910d ago
Heavyweight almost-champ Chuck Wepner was a character long before he inspired Sylvester Stallone to pen Rocky. But Wepner is no Rocky Balboa.
2910d ago
Liev Schreiber and Elisabeth Moss add the necessary punch to director Philippe Falardeau's familiar but affecting boxing biopic.
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Schreiber moves with bearish stolidity, even when boxing, and nothing is more poignantly delayed than Chuck’s realization that most of his wounds were self-inflicted.
2910d ago
Mr. Schreiber has almost no physical resemblance to Wepner, in his heyday a burly, mustachioed redhead. Mr. Schreiber is a terrific actor, however, and he pulls it off. His portrayal works partly because of its understatement.
2910d ago
Although the central match in Chuck is effective, and hits all the right beats, unlike the best of the “Rocky” movies, the drama outside the ring is less potent than drama inside. This, despite strong performances by Schreiber and — especially — Moss, a grounding presence who summons a toughness not usually seen in her work.
2910d ago
Like its protagonist, Philippe Falardeau's film gets lost in a haze of incidental cacophony.
2910d ago
Bittersweet saga of also-ran boxer Chuck Wepner, like its subject, goes the distance without quite becoming a champion.
2910d ago
The Bleeder is a surface-value, party-first boxing dramedy that pulls its punches and goes too far into "charismatic sleazeball" territories.
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