The Hammer

Working-Class Swagger

The synopsis of “The Hammer” makes it sound like a long-lost Billy Crystal movie: a smart-alecky, self-destructive Los Angeles handyman named Jerry Ferro (Adam Carolla) loses his job and his girlfriend, then reconnects with his past as a Golden Gloves boxer and tries to qualify for the United States Olympic team at 40.
Mr. Carolla, an amateur boxer and cable television veteran, has a tendency to riff when he should be acting, and the whole project — written by Kevin Hench and directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld (“Kissing Jessica Stein”) — is rambling and disorganized. [...]

di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (1513 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 marzo 2008