The problem with Million Dollar Baby is neither its fighting sequences (good) nor,
in truth, its performances (nothing special, but not awful), but rather that it treats us like stooges by narrating every step with a
careful, paternal clarity reserved for the dumbest
kid in class.
It's too nineteenth century with the lower
class characters speaking
in sentences like «He was willin», so long's I «greed to be
careful about fire, an» well... there's nothin'to keep you from comin» down to - night and seein» it» and «I s» pose we'll have a high old time between now and mornin», «cause that
kid, sweet as she's lookin» jest now, ain't goin'to be quiet.»