We’ve had a bunch of good movies set in the world of folks hitting each other silly, flicks that take a deep look into the emotional turmoil that comes with the physical trials such a sport puts its participants through. However Grudge Match is not one of those films. This is a pathetic attempt to cash in on the recent resurgence in Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro’s career, but if anything, it’ll harm both screen legends careers more than anything.

The film’s plot centers around the two major names in the world of boxing; Razor (Sylvester Stallone) and The Kid (Robert De Niro). Fighting twice, they each won one of their fights, but a tiebreaking third fight never occurred due to Razor’s retirement. Settling into normal lives, a fight while working on a boxing video game ends up getting people interested in setting the two up for a tiebreaking match that’ll determine the true boxing victor.

Now look, I know not every movie can have a script that can match the brilliance found in Inside Llewyn Davis or American Hustle. Some films have to be more conventional to fit their story and tone, that’s totally fine. But when I can predict not just events but actual dialogue before it’s even spoken, there’s a problem. Not only that, but how about we at least make our main characters likeable, is that too much to ask? Razor’s just a dull cardboard cutout for most of the flick, while The Kid is just a jerk to everyone he comes across, no one more than his recently discovered son and grandson (who might make Jake Lloyd in The Phantom Menace look like Daniel Day-Lewis in the pantheon of terrible kid actors).

Stallone just seems bored with this whole thing, and I’m honestly surprised he participated in this project, considering how personal the Rocky movies are to him. Lampooning the films that made him a household name isn’t something Stallone’s known for, but admittedly De Niro is not at all above terrible films like these. God bless him, he’s easily one of the greatest actors ever to walk this planet, but man, De Niro could fill an entire Redbox with the amount of bad movies he’s been in. Here, he tries to wring some laughs out of lines that sound like rejected jokes from bad 80’s sitcoms.

While Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin just sort of grin and bear it during this whole fiasco (though both of them get some of the film’s only funny lines), director Peter Segal directs this train wreck of a movie in the most generic way possible. Honest to God, I can’t believe the guy who brought the inventive and brilliant Get Smart remake to life could have been involved in a film that was just so lacking in anything resembling humor or life. While there might have been promise in pairing up big actors like Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro, giving them this kind of terrible film to be in is offensive to everyone involved. Frankly, this movie isn’t just a little rocky to get through; by the time it’s done you’ll be raging at the screen.