The latest grungy fight drama to test the limits of unpleasantness is “The Cut,” which premiered Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival.Running time: 99 minutes.
Not yet rated.Bidding adieu to Middle Earth and the high seas, Orlando Bloom plays a troubled Irish boxer — in fact, he’s called The Boxer — who’s asked to return to the pro circuit after 10 years away for a splashy bout in Las Vegas.At the start, “The Cut” is an adequate, typical gloves-and-shoves picture.
And then, with a snap of the fingers, director Sean Ellis’ film turns absolutely interminable.The main crux of this displeasure cruise is Bloom’s character losing 28 pounds in just six days to be eligible to compete.
That means locking himself away in a ghastly hotel room, eating hardly any food, popping laxatives like TicTacs, using dangerous illegal drugs and sweating profusely.
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