
SummaryExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Directed By:Robert Wise
Written By:Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
The Set-Up
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Great blue moments in black-and-white from a director whose early work is still outstanding: the film burns with the humanity that Raging Bull never quite achieves, an expression of masochism mixed with futile pride that is the essence of boxing as a movie myth.
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To cop a phrase, it's a knockout. [05 Sep 1999, p.32C]
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Only 72 minutes, in black and white, this is a small classic, directed by Robert Wise. [02 Jul 2000, p.17]
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The Set-Up is a real dilly for those who go for muscular entertainment.
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It's not a great movie, or even a very good one (it's rather mechanical), but it touches one's experience in a way that makes it hard to forget.
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Robert Wise’s The Set-Up isn’t noir by any serious definition, its boilerplate fatalism undone by overbearing moralizing and the fact that Ryan’s boxer is too one-dimensionally good to register as tragic.
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