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2010
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Positive Reviews
7
Negative reviews
18
Average Rating
2.1
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3.0
Finally, WWE Studios has made a film that wouldnt feel out of place on the Hallmark Channel.
Av Club
3.0
A well meaning dud thatll put you out faster than a sleeper hold.
EW
2.5
Its a feel good Kleenex(TM) dispenser of a movie, and theres nothing necessarily wrong with that, but its routine Hallmark Hall of Afterschool Special ..
Rogerebert
2.0
Or Cena, who doesnt break any new ground, acting wise, but manages, if only just, to inhabit someone elses skin for a bit.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Better thesped and helmed than its schmaltzy premise probably warrants.
Variety
1.9
Which isnt to say that we dont form a relationship with these creatures.
2.5
Exactly what you might expect, right down to the montage of blindfolded tussling, jogging and high fives to the tune of unrelenting inspirational musi ..
1.5
A school wrestling drama so mired in family film clichs it can never shake loose the suspicion that not unlike certain high gloss mat bouts the emotio ..
4.0
Mel Damski directs this transformative coming of age drama that touches the heart with its appealing characters and moral uplift.
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Riddled with as many predictable moves as any pro wrestling match...so trite a collection of cliches that it wouldnt even pass muster as a Hallmark sp ..
One Guys Opinion
2.0
...the good hearted nature of the film and the solid cast helps to pull John Poseys stodgy screenplay up from the boot straps. The result is an entert ..
2.5
And whats Danny Glover doing as a fisherman who gives advice You cant deny the movies heart is in the right place.
Usa Today
1.5
Stix Dig Hick Pix A firmly Middle American high school drama, set in small town Oklahoma, about classical wrestling, starring a sports entertainment w ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
1985s Vision Quest is still the best movie on the subject, and that isnt saying much.
Boston
2.5
Legendary is so intent on paying heartfelt tribute to dogged young athletes that it neglects basic story needs.
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Veteran TV director Mel Damski drowns the movie in a sappy score, alternating with overblown rock and hip hop tunes, and doesnt skimp on the montages.
Las Vegas Weekly
2.0
Patricia Clarkson knocks an especially solid home run as Sharon, a small town mother of two polar opposite sons.
Coles Mithey
2.5
Every emotional moment is punctuated by plinking piano, and every wrestling match is underscored by hard rock.
Stl Today
4.1
As schmaltzy after school special/Hallmark Hall of Fame family fare goes, Legendary isnt so bad.
Ar Kansas Online
1.5
John Cena radiates subdued menace and cool daring on screen. The problem is that hes intended as strictly dramatic wallpaper to this more suds than st ..
News Blaze
0.5
This isnt paint by numbers its color by numbers, with dull crayons. The only reason to see it is if you happen to want to be a Patricia Clarkson compl ..
Hollywood And Fine
1.0
The kind of fake movie that you sometimes see in the background of real movies as a joke.
Or Lando Weekly
3.1
Through all the emotional heaves and tosses, Cena is dead on. Unfortunately, the direction by Mel Damski isnt.
Boston Phoenix
1.0
Its as if the filmmakers swallowed the sports movie handbook and regurgitated every clich in half digested form.
New York Time Out
0.5
Clarkson cries on cue, perhaps recalling what an awful film shes in.
Washington City Paper
1.9
A by the numbers sports drama with a death grip on clichs and acting every bit as flat as the mat...
Miami
3.0
An unpretentious film with a predictable storyline benefits from some sharp dialog and the always watchable Patricia Clarkson.
Movie Mom
1.9
Even in our current culture of devalued vocabulary, it takes a lot of chutzpah to make a movie about a high school kid who wins a few wrestling matche ..
Gomemphis
3.0
There is something comical about the way the movie tries to integrate Cenas massively muscled torso into its chosen atmosphere of casual realism. He l ..
Google
2.5
Like the inspirational sagas that show up on low grade cable, Legendary follows a familiar blueprint designed for maximum feel good effect.
Seattle Times
2.5
Legendary relies heavily on veteran actors Patricia Clarkson and Danny Glover. However good they are, theyre incapable of making it any better than a ..
Dallas News
1.9
An after school special on steroids, Legendary is the story of a fake wrestler teaching his kid brother how to be a real wrestler.
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