Ranking August 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best
15. Hands Of Stone
RottenTomatoes Score: 46% (5.4/10)
Box Office: The modest $20 million budget helps this one a little, but with a paltry marketing campaign and little appeal outside of the devoted, analysts are predicting Hands of Stone to fail to make its price tag back at the worldwide box office.
Verdict: Despite rock solid performances from Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro, there's simply too much melodramatic sludge filling out what should be a strong sporting biopic of the legendary boxer Roberto Duran.
The boxing sequences themselves are solidly put together if arguably pale in comparison to, say, last year's Creed, and it's fair to say that without De Niro's presence the film would feel a lot more lacking. Not bad, just not reaching its potential either.