Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Hammer Reviews

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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour

  What you have here, essentially, is a classic "Honeymooners" episode juiced with tropes from the most recent "Rocky" movie.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  Rambling and disorganized. At the same time, though, The Hammer also has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits some surprising emotional notes.

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• 60

  out of 100

  VarietyRonnie Scheib

  This inordinately likable and consistently funny boxing saga-cum-romantic comedy doesn't so much ridicule the "Rocky"-type inspirational sports fable as gently deflate its heroic overdrive.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  The film hardly could be credited with breaking any new ground, but it has a hangdog charm, much like its leading actor.

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• 60

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  So many movies these days are overworked or overblown: The Hammer feels genuinely tossed-off. It isn't a great movie, or even a consistently good one. Yet it gets to elusive feelings about failure and success, hope and mortality (and reveals a quietly subversive attitude toward the boxing-movie genre).

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• 50

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  Former "Loveline" and "The Man Show" co-host Adam Carolla brings his self-deprecating, improvisational, regular-dude deadpan--as well as his former Golden Gloves status--to this semi-autobiographical comedy with ambitions so low that one might call it charmingly mediocre.

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