The Sound of Philadelphia

A waiting game in which both the audience and the movie lose.

Casual viewers, unwilling to sit through 90 minutes that feel like three hours, won't find much interest in such a somber, slow-burn approach...

It feels rather plodding... failing to turn the boxer's conflicting loyalties into the stuff of crime-flick high drama.

As uninspired the direction may be, the screenplay fares even worse with an indulgence in shallow characters, stale dialogue and tired tropes of a masculine criminal enterprise with emotional bonds that are incredibly weak.