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Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Exciting film full of brawls by fierce bare-knuckled combats staged in N.Y streets

This thrilling movie deals with a tight-lipped hunk who is introduced to the world of underground street fierce brawling by a seasoned scam artist, who becomes his manager . In New York City, a young counterfeiter named Shawn McArthur (Channing Tatum) tries to come up with a way to get enough money to live . The desperate young knocks several robbers when they attempt to rob him some goods. After that he comes into contact with street-fight promoter , a hustler named Harvey (Terrence Howard). Shawn teams up with the organizer of no-holds-barred bare-knuckle fights that secretly entertain the wealthy across the streets and slums of N.Y.C. and links Shawn up with Martinez (Luis Guzman). Shawn is soon fighting various contenders -ranging from a Harlem bouncing to an Oriental fighter - earning money to help keep his new sweetheart (Zulay Enao) who comes to love him . Shawn decides that he has something worth brawling for and sets everything on the line to vanquish . Although Shawn only wants to bash opponents long enough to gain enough money to assist his girlfriend, he is reluctant to let tricks in combats on the fighting circuit .Every knock-out brings him closer to the existence he's always wished , but also carries him in a deadly cobweb he can't getaway.The picture contains drama ,thrills , and lots of violent brawls plenty of punch , kicks, and knockouts. Acceptable performance from Channing Tatum as impulsive young becoming a professional street-fighter and battling a variety of contenders , plus Zulay Enao gives a surprisingly good acting as his gorgeous love interest and special mention to Terrence Howard as the sharpster who arranges his bare-knuckled bouts . The picture belongs to sub-genre about street combats as ¨Lionheart¨ with Jean Claude Van Damme and whose maxim representation turns out to be the classic ¨Hard times¨ by Walter Hill with Charles Bronson and James Coburn . It's a colorful but violent entertainment that results to be the second film of his director Dito Montiel. His first movie was the dramatic ¨Guide to recognizing the saints ¨and in preparation ¨The son of no one¨ also with Channing Tatum and Al Pacino . Rating : passable , only for those who like films in which fist-play are staged ad nauseam .

Reviewed by hakra1 7 / 10

completely misunderstood by the reviewers

The low critics are coming from the wrong audience, who expected a fight movie with a lot of action. this is a well acted drama, the title 'fighting' is about the fights of life everybody has to struggle with. fight scenes all in all not more than 8 minutes. the dialogues and the situations are very realistic, so that people who have been in similar situation and trying to survive in the streets will appreciate this movie.

Reviewed by Floated2 7 / 10

Delivers with intentions

Fighting offers a very little actual plot here, besides the contrived narrative that strings together the various fight sequences. It's so forced and implausible that we're never drawn into the story at all. Each fight is in a distinct setting, and each has its own painful brutality to it. Alas, the climactic rooftop showdown is rather dull; much better is the marble hallway brawl against a kinetic Asian opponent . he has four fights throughout the entire film which is not many considering that the title is called "Fighting". Though some were pretty good it wasn't that good. The last fight was the best and had the most point and story.The best thing about the film is Tatum's interaction with Howard, who offers a full-on, layered performance that actually makes the whole film worth seeing. The heart of the film is the relationship between these two men, but the script seems afraid to explore it in any real depth. Instead, it tilts toward the unconvincing romance between Shawn and Zulay. As noted by others, the acting is pretty bad and the dialogue doesn't help much either. The film was also very predictable through. Also the characters ween't very developed at all. We barely know anything about the main characters. For the majority of the film, the only thing we know about Shawn's past is that he left Birmingham to escape Daddy issues, but there's so little depth to the character otherwise. We learn the most about Shawn when he runs into Evan Bailey (Brian White), an arrogant acquaintance from his past, and you can immediately figure out where things are going to go, confirmed 45 minutes later after that initial meeting with the revelation that Evan is an extreme fighter,. We also don't know much about Harvey. At first it seemed like he was a bad guy and wanting to scam Shawn but throughout the film he seems to be on his side. ============ As a rewatch (06/20/18'), Fighting is a certain film with more depth as it grows. Upon initial watch, opinions have changed over the years. The film is more so a slow based drama than a strictly fighting film, which is a main reason for panning from critics and fans. Rating changed from 3 to 7. Recommend for fans willing to give the film another chance. Although with its flaws, the film has a steady pace and grows upon several watches.

Fighting

2009

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Sport

Fighting

2009

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Sport

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Exciting film full of brawls by fierce bare-knuckled combats staged in N.Y streets

completely misunderstood by the reviewers

Delivers with intentions

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