Whether you enjoy BLONDE FIST or not really depends on how much you like working class comedies made in Liverpool. Me, I'm rather indifferent to their charms, and I found this story - posited as THELMA & LOUISE meets ROCKY - pretty drawn out and unengaging. It's a star vehicle for the forgotten TV starlet Margi Clarke, directed by her own brother, but she gives a lame performance here and comes across as cold and unsympathetic throughout. The ridiculous story is described as a boxing drama, but such moments are few and far between and very unconvincing when they do appear. A scene in which a character gets hit and you hear cartoonish bird tweet noises really sets the level here. I laughed at exactly two funny scenes: Clarke's fight with a youthful Tina Malone has some good dialogue (and Stephen Graham in one of his first roles),and the prison chat in which Clarke's friend says she wants to make something of her life, by becoming a prostitute, are amusing. The rest? A struggle, if I'm honest.

The adventures of Ronnie, a tough working-class girl from Liverpool. The film follows Ronnie from the rough streets of Liverpool, to prison and then to New York. The characters are cliched and comical but the film doesn't take itself seriously, so I think it gets away with it. It has many funny and touching moments and I enjoyed it. Everyone I know thought it hilarious and Margi Clark suits the role of crude-talking wisecracking Ronnie. A film of its time.

A British boxing drama; A working-class Liverpudlian, prone to using her fists to settle disputes and wrongs against her family and friends, travels to New York to find her estranged father. Needing cash to rebuild her life, she joins the women's boxing circuit. This is a lumbering drama with a poor and blatant dialogue, particularly with all its fighting talk which doesn't sink deeply with its overly palpable delivery. Margi Clarke is at least striking for her efforts, packing a mean punch as a scrappy and devoted mother, but there is very little to engage with due to a story that doesn't grip, and performances that are weak. The fight sequences are choreographed well enough, but not impressive enough to be waiting around for.