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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195043243
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Summit Entertainment
Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Summit Entertainment
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 11722
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 07/29/2008
Amazon.com:
If you get caught up in the sweaty fight scenes in Never Back Down--and, despite the formulaic plot, you very likely will--it will be due to the sheer kinetic pleasure of muscular bodies in motion. Jake (Tom Cruise look-alike Sean Faris, Yours, Mine, and Ours), full of anger after his father's death, starts to find a place for himself at his new Florida high school--until Ryan, the head of an underground mixed-martial arts (Cam Gigandet, The O.C.), picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of everyone in school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a martial arts master with a hidden past (Djimon Hounsou, a long way from Blood Diamond, but still bringing his essential gravitas to the screen). Basically, Never Back Down boils down to a cross between The Karate Kid and Fight Club, minus the sociopolitical commentary. The story and characters are a bundle of featherweight cliches, but that won't stop the aggressively edited fight sequences from stoking a viewer's adrenaline. Also starring Amber Heard (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) as the very blonde love interest, who (along with an abundance of girls in bikinis--'cause, y'know, it's Florida) is there to assure everyone that these handsome, chiseled boys are strictly heterosexual. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent movie
this movie is excellent if you want to see a little action mixed with the OC.
I definetly recommend NEVER BACK DOWN!
Rating:  - Not Worth Watching
I don't think I'll ever understand movies like this. I've never seen the point of boxing or fighting except for one man to prove dominance over another. And honestly, nobody cares who's more masculine. You don't have to be at the top of the masculinity food chain to have a good life, and that's the message this movie doesn't send.
"Never Back Down" entices a wide female audience with lots of buff shirtless guys beating each other up. "Never Back down" also entices a large male audience with a story of the underdog rising to the top by beating the life out of people. And unfortunately neither draw makes for a good film. The entire point of this movie is that the underdog cannot and will not have a happy, peaceful life until he can beat the resident school bully. This is not the kind of message that needs to be sent to teenagers. While I may have only just left my teenage years, I do not believe that violence is the answer to all our problems and therefore think this movie was a horrible idea from start to finish. I've never wanted to throw the remote at my television set any more than when I watched this film.
If you're big on boxing and men being each other up, yes you'll like this movie. And I know there's a big enough audience out there that will appreciate this film. But I honestly don't see the point in anything the main character does in this film, and therefore cannot recommend it to anyone else.
Rating: - Homage to the montage
Get a blender, mix Karate Kid, Rocky 3&4, add a touch of Indiana Jones and Best of the Best, the sport of MMA, and this is what you'll get.
This movie is exactly what it was intended to be, an updated guy movie cashing in on the UFC's popularity. Much of this film (lines, scenes, plot) is directly derived from the movies I mentioned above, almost like the director is paying tribute to the training montage. Sure it's formulaic & predictable & cliche', it's well done for what you should expect.
I had to laugh when the student beats the teacher in a footrace at the beach, kinda like when Rocky beat Apollo in the Rocky 3 montage. That's one example of the many times you'll recognize the other movies' influence. It's fun just for that.
Rating:  - Kickboxing: "All the Rage"
Seldom do students get more excited than when a fight breaks out at school. Add to that the list of extreme sports and, especially, the addition of kickboxing to mainstream audiences, and you've got a sure-fire way to capture and keep the shortest attention spans for a movie.
It is on this premise that I felt an inclination to dock 'Never Back Down'. The sense of pervasive violence with a sport I don't particularly like led to this belief, but I don't like to do that. A movie should be judged by its cinematic merits rather than its subject matter. Don't get me wrong; I like contact sports. It's just that I enjoy the finesse of hockey, football, and boxing far better. Throw in the kicking element, and I honestly thought this movie a was bloodthirsty medium for voyeuristic violence.
I decided to back up and look at the merits and demerits of the feature and let others' decide if they like the venue. As a film, the kickboxing seems just about the only new thing going for it. There's Jake Tyler (Sean Faris), the protagonist, a kid who moves from Iowa to Orlando. (One kid calls him "Kurt Cobain" for his inclination to wear flannel in Florida.) As the new kid in town, he faces a kickboxing bully, Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet) who enjoys testing any newcomers setting foot on his turf. Between both figures is Ryan's girlfriend, Baja Miller (Amber Heard) who has the good sense to dislike her boyfriend's sadistic past time.
Ryan has a hard time leaving his ... Read More
Rating:  - 'Would like to give it four stars
I really liked this movie. There are so many reasons that I wanted to give it more than three stars.
Though it's derivative of other similarly-themed movies - new kid in school, while battling personal demons, must prove himself against the established bully - "Never Back Down" has an appealing hero in the form of Sean Faris as Jake Tyler, a villain that brings out the hisses (Cam Gigandet), a comely love interest (Amber Heard), an encouraging sidekick (Evan Peters), and a wise sage/trainer that also has a "cross to bear" (Djimon Hounsou).
The fight scenes - of which there are two major ones - are well-done and, remarkably, not very graphic in their "blood splatter." Both Faris and Gigandet obviously spent some time in the gym and had some mixed martial arts training to pull off the convincing battles.
The unrated film also features mild profanity, in comparison to other youth-oriented films. One would think that a film with so much testosterone would have its characters spouting obscenities in every sentence, but "Never Back Down" is refreshingly absent of many.
Like I said, I'd like to give it four stars but it's just an average popcorn movie with a simple plot, adequate performances, and a satisfying conclusion.
One major criticism that I have is that the producers try to pass off Orlando - the film's setting - as being similar to its neighbor to the south, Miami. Though a major metropolis in its own right, Orlando is NOT "Northern ... Read More
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