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Answer: The kickboxer knocks him silly in 35 seconds.
This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.
Because Eleanor, in her own patrician way, had behind her the authority of what our grandparents called the School of Hard Knocks.
Next to the museum, behind a gate (opened to anyone who knocks), is the Old Protestant Cemetery.
(And our grandparents had far more awareness than we grant them that such Knocks could be emotional ones.)