Fighting

Release Date: April 24, 2009
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Dito Montiel
Screenwriter: Dito Montiel, Robert Munich
Starring: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Brian White, Luis Guzman, Zulay Henao
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for intense fight sequences, a sex scene and brief strong language)
Official Website: Fightingmovie.net
Review: 5.5/10 rating
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Plot Summary: Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership.

As Shawn's manager, Harvey introduces him to the corrupt bare-knuckle circuit, where rich men bet on disposable pawns. Almost overnight, he becomes a star brawler, taking down professional boxers, mixed martial arts champs and ultimate fighters in a series of staggeringly intense bouts. But if Shawn ever hopes to escape the dark world in which he's found himself, he must now face the toughest fight of his life.

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COMMENTS (44)

Posted by:

Philip

October 21, 2008

With the current popularity of the ufc, movie companies are trying to cash in on this fame with movies like this and "never back down". I dont know how this will turn it, howard gives it a chance to be decent, but still its iffy. The only good street fighting type movie to date is fight club, and no movie will be able to touch that.

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Say what?

November 20, 2008

oh Come now... Although Fight Club may have fighting in it, it certainly isnt a Street Fighting movie.
Yes there is fighting in the street..
There's a little more to that movie than Kicking Ass. Perhaps there's a little more to this one too.

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Johnny Potenza

December 16, 2008

Cant wait for it to come out, I worked on the show as a extra!
Great production, cool story, real good actors.
It was a fun film to work on.
Johnny P

Posted by:

The Realest

January 7, 2009

Man this a fake ass Never Back Down.

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robert

January 7, 2009

"street fighting movies" or movies of this genre' would be movies like 'kickboxer' 'the quest' a lot of other van damnn movies, never back down, is one of the recent ones, and fight club, is not a street fighting movie, for sure...

I don't anticipate this movie, but if it ever hits theaters it would be interesting to see. Who knows, it could be an underdog big hit.

Looks more like a van damnn movie than anything else, but we'll just have to see.

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MBB

January 8, 2009

I liked this movie much better when it was called "Lionheart"

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DJ

January 8, 2009

there was a similar vandamme movie called lionheart almost same story fighter off the street goes and fights all these people and for the last fight the "manager" bets all their winnings against van damme and tries to convince him to throw the fight same S@#$ different shovel

Posted by:

SLR

January 8, 2009

The problem with these "street fighting" movies is that because they're about underground fighting, they always try to make it about personal pride, and a little about money.

There's a reason that a movie like Rocky worked - He was fighting for his life, basically... Fighting for *A* life, with a once in a lifetime opportunity that couldn't be turned down.

These movies are just about dudes that like to fight, which doesn't engender the same sympathy, because the cause isn't as noble. These guys COULD just walk away when getting the crap kicked out of them got old, but for unknown reasons they don't.

That's why Redbelt was basically the only movie made recently in reaction to the MMA boom that was any good - Because it was framed in official competition, and because the fighting was a means to an end, not the entire point of the movie.

Posted by:

Art

January 8, 2009

Can anybody say Lion Heart rip off!!!

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Ryan Neale

January 8, 2009

Wow this looks 1000 times better than never back down.... if only that was saying something.

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