“Rumble Through The Dark” (** out of four) was a flat-footed melodrama set in the Mississippi Delta in which an aging bare-knuckled fighter (Aaron Eckhart) agrees to step back in the ring for one last fight to pay off him and his mother’s (Marianne Jean-Batiste) debts to the local mob and save their family house. Eckhart is solid as usual in a change-of-pace role for him and there are some poignant individual moments but these are lost within film’s routine framework and overlength. Rich music score by Brad Smith is a definite highlight.

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