Photos Top cast Edit. Neil Brown Jr. Aaron as Aaron. Lauren Leech Jenny as Jenny. Tilky Jones Eric as Eric. Steven Crowley Ben as Ben.
Tom Nowicki Mr. Lloyd as Mr. Jeff Wadlow. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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.
Win or Lose Everyone Has Their Fight. Did you know Edit. Trivia Sean Faris gained 15 lbs. Goofs During the fight scene when Jake gets out of the car to fight the three guys in the Yellow Hummer, Max lifts up his video camera after Jake throws his first punch, but after the fight, when all of the students are watching the fight on the net at school, it shows that Max is recording before the fight even begins.
Quotes Jean Roqua : [Jake is considering going to the Beatdown] Do this and you can never come back in my gym again. Alternate versions PG version is Minutes while the unrated version is Minutes. Records Inc. User reviews Review. Top review.
Although this has been done 1, times. Never Back Down was still a really great movie that I had a lot of fun watching, and I was surprised with how much I actually ended up liking it. But there are also some great examples of loyalty and friendship, as well as a supportive sibling relationship. And Jake learns the value of walking away from fights. A barrage of brawls that leave participants bloodied and, in some cases, severely injured.
Lots of close-ups of kicks and punches and their bloody aftermath. The big climax is a major "beat down. Students are shown toting around iPhones and digital cameras.
At a party, teens are shown holding red plastic cups, implying that they're drinking beer. In another scene, an adult offers teenagers a drink.
Parents need to know that this action-drama is very much a fight film -- it's filled with brutal, gory scenes of men and women, too engaged in physical combat. They punch, kick, and choke each other, and there's plenty of cuts, bruises, and blood.
There's also some swearing "s--t," "bitch" and underage drinking though viewers don't see actual liquor, the red plastic cups the teens hold are clearly full of alcohol. In many scenes, women and men wear nothing but bikinis and swim trunks, and there's some kissing and a little innuendo.
Add your rating See all 6 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 13 kid reviews. After his father dies in a car accident, leaving him saddled with survivor's guilt, high school student Jake Tyler Sean Faris is barely able to control his rage.
A move from Iowa to Florida with his mother and brother offers him a fresh start, but it's quickly ruined when the school's top brawler, Ryan Cam Gigandet , baits Jake into an ugly fight that he loses -- miserably. Enter Jean Roqua Djimon Hounsou , the mixed-martial arts guru whom Jake seeks out for guidance and training. With Jean's help, Jake may be able to tame his inner demons for good. Fight movies have their place in cinematic history Rocky , anyone? The cuts are so quick that you can't appreciate any technique.
And though, like better sports films, the film does attempt to reveal the internal struggles that fuel the physical ones, it does so with overly broad strokes. There's little nuance or complication and so many fight scenes that when the movie finally gets to the big beat down, it's almost anti-climactic -- it just feels like yet another battle. The movie's also riddled with cliches; there's a supportive girlfriend, a funny sidekick, mantras "Control the outcome" , and even a race between the mentor and the mentee that's a straight rip-off of Rocky.
Director Jeff Wadlow does manage to drum up some excitement by letting the action unspool with a light touch. The script isn't memorable, but the dialogue is believable, and star Faris is blessed with an easy smile and a likable swagger.
And Hounsou, though he delivers a one-note performance, is still fun to watch. Families can talk about why Jake feels compelled to fight. How does his approach to fighting change from the beginning to the end? Jake has a very big chip on his shoulder, and is estanged with his mother.
One day after school, Jake is invited to a party, what he thinks is a way to make new friends, ends up turning into a UFC challenge, when Jake is lured into a fight by an antagonist named Ryan McCarthy Cam Gigandet , although Jake puts up a pretty good fight, he is beaten down badly. In hopes to recover from this humilation, a new friend suggest a karate veteran named Jean Roqua Djimon Hounsou. Althouh has doubts, he goes anyway. In hopes Jake will learn to exercise his mind and body.
And thats all I'm gonna tell you. This film was not all bad, at times predicable, but still good. And the fight scenes were awesome, some were corny, but the rest were good. And everybody gives great performances also.
Don't tap-out yet! From reading the title "Never Back Down," you get the impression that what you're about to watch will be something pretty macho and also pretty lame - a bad combination. The claims of this being a remake of "The Karate Kid" plus "Fight Club" and mixed martial arts is not undeserved or inappropriate.
As a casual fan of mixed martial arts, the gladiator-style spectacle of this sport goes all the way back to the Greeks, with their sport Pankration which pretty much resembles today's MMA. The idea of cross-training and mixing techniques of different fighting styles gained popularity in the 20th century with Bruce Lee and his theories on Jeet Kune Do which when translated from Cantonese, means "the way of the intercepting fist".
Since then, a revolution has been sparked in the world of full-contact fighting. Right away, it's established that Jake's a born brawler and has a chip on his shoulder, so right away the filmmakers are attempting to remove themselves from the "Karate Kid" legacy. Right away, he locks eyes on the pretty blonde Baja Miller Amber Heard, uh-huh , and she invites new-kid Jake to a party later that night.
At this same party, he locks heads with rich-boy Ryan McCarthy Cam Gigandet , a champion MMA fighter who gets the upper hand on Jake and beats him to a pulp in a no-holds-barred brawl. All hope is not lost. On his first day of school, Jake had witnessed a fight happening under the bleachers, where an outcast kid named Max Evan Peters was getting his butt kicked by Ryan and his goons.
So cue the MTV soundtrack and training montage. In terms of being a simple martial arts movie, "Never Back Down" is nothing new. Plenty of martial arts movies have been made about the bullied good guy who gets his butt kicked, learns to fight from a master, and tests out his newfound skills by getting revenge on his tormentors in the ring. The by-the-numbers script by Chris Hauty pays attention to a few of the details of modern mixed martial arts training, but doesn't really go into any real depth about it, even if some of the harsher stuff is only glossed over for the sake of trying to mainstream it.
But I also guess that this Jeff Wadlow-directed vehicle has seen way too many better movies, and it's inherently self-referential toward them. The acting, writing and plot are decent, but still, the performances, acting and writing, like everything else, are by-the-numbers. Although we don't really wade grimly through worthless dialogue scenes, we do perk up for the fighting and training sequences. The best thing about these scenes is that they're authentic: what the actors are doing is so "real" you "believe" it.
As brutal as they are even for a "PG"-rated movie , they're fairly exciting and there isn't a whole bunch of flashy camera cutting that takes away from the intensity of the full-contact punching and kicking.
The camera stays put for the most part and isn't moving all over the place. It looks like the actors are really going at it, and it looks like it hurts. So you "believe" it in a way you don't really do for a lot of martial arts movies made in America these days. And that's what no-holds-barred is all about, right? I actually really enjoyed this movie, It's kind of had feel good movie vibe to it! I know that may sound little odd but I had fun watching this movie.
I found the movie flowed really, I wasn't bored for one second, it's wasn't action packed. They had good mix of drama and action blended in really well. The action scenes or fight scenes, what ever you like call them, there were some really good fight scenes in this movie. I liked the fight scenes were not to quick and it's wasn't to long, so don't get bored with fight. I enjoyed the whole start to the end of the movie, the acting was great from the whole cast!
I had no idea there a sequel 7 out of 10 Really good movie. Let's all be honest with each other this is a re-hash of The Karate Kid; OK let's look at it; troubled kid moves from Iowa to Florida, tries to stop a fight and then falls predator to local tough guy Ryan McCarthy Cam Gigandet. McCarthy beats up the protagonist Jake Tyler Sean Faris - who has a spooky resemblance to a young Tom Cruise and thus setting up the plot.
Tyler wants to get the better of McCarthy although initially it is merely because he envies his lifestyle and his girlfriend Baja Miller the unbelievably hot Amber Heard , but as the film progresses, Tyler finds that he not only has to take on McCarthy, but he must also fight his inner demons as well. Anyone who has watched this film and who has seen the Karate Kid will undoubtedly see the similarities; the weedy out of town kid, the necessity to fight for the women that they love Shue in the Karate Kid and Heard in this film , at this juncture it doesn't particularly make it bad but it's hardly original and it kind of made me think that we've got a 'been there done that' kind of scenario.
The romance angle between Tyler and Miller is exactly the same as in The Karate Kid both protagonists get their asses kicked and then train to overcome their enemies with Mr Miyagi being the trainer in the first film and Jean Roqua in this film played by the excellent Djimon Hounsou. The whole soppy romance between Miller and Tyler was completely predictable as was the way the film ended- although the way it fooled the audience into believing that McCarthy and Tyler would fight in the ring was moderately surprising it did cheapen the effect somewhat by giving it a Rocky V feel.
Where this film succeeds slightly is in the subtext and character development that it offers; we learn that Jake Tyler's father died when he drove back drunk when Jake was in the passenger seat. Jake knew that he could have prevented it and yet in his own words 'did nothing about it'. I think that this explains nearly every scene in this film - the initial involvement in the fight, his tenacity and desire never to give up. I think he was partly doing it to prove himself to his dad, but more importantly to prove to himself that he wasn't gutless which he ultimately shows in the end.
This film had some great subtext if you're prepared to look for it, it's just a shame that it's something that we've seen time and time again.
One major problem that this film suffers from is that it has a real 'MTV' feel about it. I understand that a 'score' or 'music' can be used to evoke emotion, but in this film it felt like it was just there for no other reason other than to pander for the MTV generation. It was over used, not emotive, not moving. The film's climax is predictable and is something that anyone with an IQ in double figures could have figured out after 5 minutes. Djimon Hounsou gave probably the best performance.
Overall, this wasn't a complete waste of time, but it's hardly ground breaking and I thought when it ended that I'd seen it before and much better. A brutal teen movie that is deliberately made to show handsome 20 somethings posing as as teens beating each other in teeth gritting bleeding fistfights as pretty girls cheer and ogle in glee. It is absolutely reprehensible in the way it is made: a cobbled-together story basically about the popular brutality of teens in school as some popcorn movie thrill.
Like a perverts FIGHT CLUB this film is made by adults who should know better than to simply use revenge and social decay as an excuse to show fit and healthy guys and their bimbo girlfriends gleefully enjoying bashings. This sickening and frustrating formulaic high school flick wastes the talents and looks of everyone involved. Sean Faris as your hero Tyler is some Tom Cruise look-a-like with someone called Cam Gigandet as his Brad Pitt style nemesis; so obvious is the casting in this image that immediately the films contrivances become obvious.
Hammy dialogue as drama, lame arguments between his Mom, misunderstandings that cause you to roll your eyes and moan, and some Karate Kid style gym antics with mentor Dijmon Hounsou just add to the irritation in their half baked imitative style of other better films. If all this is not enough to put you off, then please let me also advise you it is filmed by handy-cam, with idiotic closeups and wobbly picture.
Terrible and offensive in every way. A contrived exploitive vicious mess. Even our hero's nerd pal is there and cops a beating to ensure the climax is about revenge This disgusting degenerative and derivative film is directed by someone who wants you to enjoy teenagers bashing each other, and the film as a production actually fosters the social blight of kids filming schoolyard fights for YouTube. A teen is new in town, goes to high school and ends up having to fight bare-fisted.
He finds a guy who helps him improve his fighting technique before the big showdown with the school bully. Sean Farris, who you may recognize from several other youth-oriented flicks, plays the new kid in town and Dimoin.
Hounsou is his trainer. If nothing else, Farris is a solid young actor who is likely to go on to better things. Honsou, who has appeared in much better films, appears to be slumming here.
Hey, it's a paycheck! It looked like a lamer version of "The Karate Kid" and I was not interested in it one bit. I watched it on the movie network on Friday. It actually exceeded my expectations! Once you get passed the un-realistic ness of the movie, and the fact it is sort of like a UFC version of "Karate Kid", there is a fairly decent film. It's about a teen who's father was killed right in front of him in a drunk driving accident. During a football game, someone on the other team mentions this, which starts a fight.
This is right before the family moves to a new place and he attends a new school. The results of these battles are often only bloody noses and a few facial lacerations, which hardly seems realistic considering the vicious nature of these encounters. Set to a pounding musical score, these no holds barred brawls employ grappling, kicking, head butts, pummeling fists and chokeholds that sometimes result in the victim losing consciousness.
The portrayal of unsanctioned violence is made worse by the swarms of taunting teens egging on the rivals. When in reality a single punch to the head can cause death, this film glamorizes underground fight clubs without any consequences such as serious injury, fatalities or legal ramifications.
Nor are parents likely to find anything entertaining about this negligent and dangerous falsehood. Rather than giving youth an alternative method to deal with their anger or teaching them to use their physical strength and skills in more positive ways, this slugfest is more reminiscent of Gladiator than Karate Kid.
The violent portrayals of mixed martial arts in this teen film include kicking, repeated punches, pain-inflicting holds and choking. Bloody injuries and lacerations along with the indication of injured ribs are shown. Posting these brawls on the Internet for entertainment is also portrayed. While combat clubs enforce some discipline on their students, the street fights and displays of road rage are complete free-for-alls with victims being slammed against the ground, into car mirrors or viciously kicked in the head.
While most adults are either absent or ineffective in this film, the sponsors of underground fight contests will likely benefit from the promotion of this teen violence. Barely-clad teen females become little more than set decoration or sexual diversions for the boys, as when two girls are shown passionately kissing in a hot tub at a weekend party. A brief homosexual comment is made and a heterosexual teen couple is seen kissing and rolling clothed on a bedroom floor.
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