Synopsis
Approaching forty, Ferro is unsatisfied with his life as a construction worker and part-time boxing instructor in Los Angeles, CA. After a successful bout with a young pro boxer, Ferro decides to don the gloves one last time. The movie recounts his unlikely quest for Olympic gold.
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Cast
- Adam CarollaJerry Ferro
- Oswaldo CastilloOswaldo Sanchez
- Harold "House" MooreRobert Brown
- Christopher DargaMike LeMat
- Jonathan HernandezVictor Padilla
- Heather JuergensenLindsay Pratt
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
It's genuinely funny, oddly romantic and surprisingly engaging for what could easily have been an obnoxious vanity project. - 75
New York Daily News
The Hammer benefits from Carolla's low-energy, low-impact style. He doesn't so much deliver quips as let them dribble out the side of his mouth. - 63
New York Post
The script depends heavily on familiar stand-up comedy bits, but it's full of sharp wisecracks and slacker charm. - 60
Variety
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. - 60
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. - 60
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. - 60
Wall Street Journal
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). - 50
Salon
If you liked "Rocky Balboa" you should be in good shape, since it's exactly the same movie, just aimed at a teeny-tiny-bit younger demographic and with an affectless leading man who avoids hambone acting by not acting at all.
