Battle of the Year

2013

Action / Drama / Music

23
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 51 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 9839 9.8K

musical

Plot summary

A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.

Director

Benson Lee Photo
Benson Lee

Top cast

Steve Terada Photo
Steve Terada as Sight
Caity Lotz Photo
Caity Lotz as Stacy
Rickie Haywood-Williams Photo
Rickie Haywood-Williams as KISS UK Host
Josh Holloway Photo
Josh Holloway as Jason Blake
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813.64 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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1.65 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eatakmakova 6 / 10

"Change how you think, change your life"

Here we have another dance movie. At first, it seems movies of such genre have exhausted and that there is nothing else to tell about. You expect the story will repeat: there is a huge and important dance event with a fabulous sum of money as a main prize and that can change dancers' life for ever, on the one hand, and there is a dance crew desiring to win this event, on the other hand. Yes, the story is like this, but this time the director have added some moral notions that made this movie acquire some deeper sense and look more interesting and intriguing. Battle of the year is an international b-boying competition where dance crews from all over the world try to get to and get the first place. The point is that for the last 15 years America, homeland of break dance, has not taken any first place. One of the former b-boy dancers (Dante Graham played by Laz Alonso) decides to change this situation. He finds a couch (Couch Blake performed by Josh Holloway) and together they create Dream Team. Couch's main goal is not only to train the guys to win the competition, but his first and principal idea is to make them a team, some kind of dance family where everybody supports each other and ready stand for everyone who is in this crew. Another subtext of this film is "change how you think, change your life". The read line of Battle of the year is that your reality is in your head: you get everything you think about. And the same is about success. If you think about it and act like a successful person, you definitely will get this. And you decide what you put into your head. The movie shows us how their couch tries to change not only his reality, but the guys' one too and how he changes their idea about friendship and other values. At the same time, Blake trains them to be excellent dancers, he doesn't forget about the main purpose why he was hired to train this team. Of course, there are great dance moments, the competition itself is just insane. And it is interesting to see the scale of similar events and different dance techniques. So, if you are a big fan of dancing or dance movies or if you just want to see Chris Brown, his acting, go and watch this movie. By the way, the end is pretty unexpected. I guess very soon we will see the second part of this film.
Reviewed by emily-39235-15776 4 / 10

Good for its time, but definitely doesn't hold up.

Dancing awesome. Drama and acting not so much.There is a "bad guy" in the movie that one of the main characters owes a bunch of money to. The whole movie leads to that dilema. Somehow Steve Harvey settles that issue and now the movie is back on track to dancing. ????? What?? That is the main thing that dropped this movie's rating. It wasted 30minutes of the viewer's time. They could have kept it so there was the usual beef between the dance crews. The big, scary, hinted at drug lord was not necessary.
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