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Never Back Down [2008]
from Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters, Leslie Hope
directed by Jeff Wadlow

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A happy slappers dream film
  I watched this movie based on the Amazon reviews here so it's my own fault really!
  This is a souless mish mash of popular action films of days gone by such as The Karati Kid and Fight Club, deliberately targeting the Dawson's Creek audience. The acting is of Dawson's Creek standards too, lots of school kids who look 30 trying to be all grown up while having terribly one dimentional angst issues and who like to film school yard scraps with their mobile phones to be posted on the web.
  But the main... more info

• A film which cant make its mind up
  I had to give this movie three stars because it cant decide whether its a low brow actioner or something a little more profound, on the other hand it strongly deserves three stars because I had expected something more disappointing and banal than what it is.
  As another reviewer has said it is very reminescent of Karate Kid, repeating a lot of themes, a single parent family moves to a new town, the protagonist, an angry son doesnt want to commit to the move, gets beat on by the local jerks and their... more info

• A Karate Kid for the 21st Century....
  ..and that's basically it. The plot is virtually identical to the Karate Kid, but without the camp 80's-ness of it. It also parallels the Iliad to a certain degree, which I quite liked, especially since the book was referenced in one scene.
  Decent action sequences though if you can overcome the paucity of the plot, which is, lets face it, thoroughly predictable. Decent lead actor, looking not like Ralph Macchio, but more a young Tom Cruise, and another example of just how good an actor Dijmon Hounsou... more info

• A fast flowing mixed martial arts flick with a really energetic and wholesome story
  If you take the martial arts classics of "Karate Kid" and "No Retreat No Surrender" and add some Beverly Hills / Fight Club ingredients - the outcome would be this movie. A fast flowing, punch, block, submit and kick, quick thinking adrenaline rush movie.
  In my opinion there aren't enough of these movies. The majority of recent martial arts movies have overpaid Hollywood actors or an abundance of high wire CGI effect ridden pieces, that look good and are excellent films in their own right - but it's so... more info

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