Never Back Down PG-13
Win or lose... Everyone has their fight.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 29, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Summit Inc/Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Djimon Hounsou, Amber Heard & Sean Faris | |
Performer: | Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters & Leslie Hope | |
Directed by | Jeff Wadlow | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Hauty | |
Composition by | Michael Wandmacher | |
Produced by | Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig & Craig Baumgarten | |
Director of Photography: | Lukas Ettlin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Towering above all is Hounsou, whose performance grants Never Back Down a measure of dignity.
Seattle Times
Rating: 2/4 --
It's a little Karate Kid, a smidge of Fight Club...a lot of The O.C. (evil boy Gigandet played an evil boy on that series), and presto: probable hit.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: D --
Movie is dopey. And with its emphasis on stupid violence, xylophone abs, and getting yourself on YouTube, it's yet another product that makes you feel bad about today's youth culture.
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Entertainment Weekly
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]t happily wears its influences like a badge of honour....With bruising hand-to-hand fights...
Total Film
A generic, violent underdog story that pays a lot of lip service to non-violence when its characters aren't busy kicking and punching the tar out of each other.
Screen International
Rating: 7/10 --
Here's what I hoped for: someone to root for, someone to root against, an inspiring coach, some eye candy and, of course, training montages. I got what I wanted.
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The Scorecard Review
Rating: 2/4 --
A sort of teenage Fight Club, complete with daddy issues, Never Back Down is a slight refinement of the sort of picture that was ascendant in the '80s... [Blu-Ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Product Description:
There's no eye-gouging, no biting, and no crotch shots allowed, but everything else goes in NEVER BACK DOWN, an invigorating high school sports/ultimate backyard fighting hybrid. Sean Faris plays Jake, the new kid (with a troubled past) who butts heads with rich alpha-male bully Ryan (Cam Gigandet, channeling Brad Pitt in FIGHT CLUB) at Miami High. Amber Heard plays Baja, the hot blonde who tricks Jake into attending a combination pool party/fight club held at Ryan's MTV cribs-style mansion. Jake doesn't want to fight at first but gets goaded into a blind rage and then gets his butt kicked. Enter Djimon Hounsou as the local fighting instructor who teaches Jake some self-discipline (and how to throw a cement block at the camera from 30 paces). Director Jeff Wadlow clearly harbors nostalgia for the halcyon days of TOP GUN and FLASHDANCE; the emo-rock-scored training montages flow as free as Baja's blonde hair during her frequent slow-motion walks down the hall. Jake even has a wisecracking slacker cameraman sidekick (Evan Peters) who uploads all the fights to the internet. Concerned parents will be glad to know there's not much drinking or kissing, and no matter how hard the punches and roundhouse kicks may be, everybody gets to keep their teeth. Special acting shout-out to Wyatt Smith as Jake's tennis-prodigy kid brother and Leslie Hope as their stressed-out single mom.
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- Sales Rank: 44,350
- UPC: 025195043229
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