As you can tell from the image above, this is pretty much the fast and the furious of the fighting world, and by fighting I mean Mixed Martial Arts, not your everyday boring Taekwondo, Judo or Wrestling. Instead, it’s a bit of everything combined, from Striking, Slamming, Grappling and Wrestling. Now you know what Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is, we can move onto the movie.

It’s your everyday, very typical angst movie where teenager gets in one too many fights, gets suspended from school, moves to new place then all is going well, until of a sudden blonde bombshell Baja Miller played by Amber Heard (some actress we’ve not heard from since) comes long a lures him into coming to a party, where he ends up having to fight Ryan McCarthy. (more about him later). Don’t get me wrong, I love this film but it’s hard to take seriously. It makes the MMA scene look like a bunch of rich kids, with their own little fight club. The best way to describe this movie would be to think Kimbo Slice Youtube videos, but with a couple of dudes who look like younger versions of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise who also happen drive Hummers and honestly not know that much about martial arts, considering the first fight they got in Sean Faris, known as Jake Tyler in the movie would have knocked out Cam Gigandet who plays Ryan McCarthy with his a couple of his punches, it was quite unrealistic. But never mind, moving on before this becomes a ‘too long did not read’ going back to my gamers are childish blog.

At his new high school, a rebellious teen Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight, where he finds a mentor in a mixed martial arts veteran. After receiving threats to the safety of his friends and family, Jake seeks the mentoring of a veteran fighter, to train his mind and body for one final no-holds-barred elimination fight with his unrelenting personal nemesis and local martial arts champion Ryan McCarthy

Over all good film one that mostly resembles MMA style more so than in any other movie.

But let’s face it; we put any of them in a ring with any current UFC fighter in the same weight class they would get their pretty little movie faces reconstructed with force.

Angst teen. Check. Hot Girl. Check. Rich Bully. Check. Fighting. Check.

Trailer:
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023111/
Official Site: Couldn’t find one.

Personal opinion, I'd watch it. Despite the mean remarks I've made I'll contradict myself and say it's a good film, that I enjoyed, with a good soundtrack and personally I think it's worth watching! 7.5/10

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