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Summit Never Back Down (Blu-ray) Jake (Sean Faris) isthe new kid in school. When a beautiful girl (Amber Heard) befriends him, Jake thinks he's set. Butinstead, her fight-club boyfriend, Ryan (Cam Gigandet), smacks Jake a bloody, black-eyed welcome. Jake then turns to a mixed martial arts (MMA) master (Djimon Hounsou), who teaches him how to fight... and how to walk away. But it becomes obvious that a brutal re-match is inevitable if Jake wants tostop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.
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
Summit Never Back Down (Blu-ray) Jake (Sean Faris) isthe new kid in school. When a beautiful girl (Amber Heard) befriends him, Jake thinks he's set. Butinstead, her fight-club boyfriend, Ryan (Cam Gigandet), smacks Jake a bloody, black-eyed welcome. Jake then turns to a mixed martial arts (MMA) master (Djimon Hounsou), who teaches him how to fight... and how to walk away. But it becomes obvious that a brutal re-match is inevitable if Jake wants tostop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.
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.
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Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Release date: 29 July 2008
Number of discs: 1
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