Well, it is ... but the actual fisticuffs are soooooo tangential to the movie as a whole! Fighting is the frame, not the meat, of the flick!
The clerk and owner of our comic book store urged us to watch it. However, we didn't, (who wants to watch WWF for two hours?) until it came on cable one night when there was absolutely nothing else on the tube. We caught it near the beginning, but we were surfing the 'Net, and only watching with one ear and half an eye. But it pulled us in, and blew us away!
Oh, once you see it you will want to see it again!
The vehicle that Kevin Spacey rode to his first Oscar ... what a magnificent movie!