Back in the Day (2016)

A young man grows up In a mob controlled neighbourhood in Brooklyn. Being half Italian and half Puerto Rican he faces constant challenges. His father is a drunk and his mother is always working which gives him ample time to pound the sand bag. Michael Madsen plays a mob boss who sets up the boy with a trainer played by Danny Glover, seeing potential in him. His mother is killed by a hit and run driver which changes his life. He now strives to be middleweight champion of the world.They try and make a Rocky meets Goodfellas with mostly unbelievable characters. Alec Baldwin and Madsen do fine but the rest? The story focuses on his growing up and the life around him. The run time is two hours which is too long for this one. Mike Tyson's cameo was cheesy as he shows up to give the boxer a pep talk, which looks like he was reading off a prompt.

I really like boxing movies, so when I read the summary and saw the cast I thought this was going to be a pretty good flick...I watched the whole movie, but never really got into it.The boxing lead didn't come off as a very good actor and I had a lot of trouble buying Shannen Doherty as the love interest he spent so long pining away for. I'm sure they are close in actual age, but Doherty looks like she's in her mid 50's in this movie and she's not in very good shape, which made the flashbacks to when they younger look kind of weird.I think the screenplay itself was probably fine, this movie just needed a slightly different cast along with better directing...

great movie great cast will DeMeo outstanding performance ,it's great to see how people work really hard to get what they achieve this movie tells the tale of a neighborhood that had racism and problems filled with action suspense and real life tails will and his cast doing an amazing job at bringing an old-school era back to New School reality,I purchase the movie and watched it you won't be disappointed watching this movie,if you love boxing and you grew up in the seventies and eighties in Brooklyn this movie is a must-see,Michael Madsen Alec Baldwin and Joey donofrio did a really nice job at coming together what a feeling like this,Michael Delprete Brooklyn

William DeMeo really must be a nice and communicative guy. He produced, wrote and starred in this film (he's the main character: the Anthony Rodriguez guy, the boxer…) and I think he saved it too.I'm saying it because sometimes it's only because of him if some really badly written and really badly acted scenes did not kill the entire story. This is the (long: about two hours) story of a Brooklyn middleweight trying to fight his way through all the difficulties that life and a violent neighborhood put on his path. It's a classic, so don't expect anything original: the plot is catching nonetheless and some very good actors (Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover, William Madsen…) help the film shine and look more real.