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Fighting
2009
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for street fighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy .. Read more
| Starring | Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Brian J. White, Luis Guzmán |
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| Director | Dito Montiel |
| Genres | Drama |
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Fighting
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for street fighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership. As Shawn's manager, Harvey introduces him to the corrupt bare-knuckle circuit, where rich men bet on disposable pawns. Almost overnight, he becomes a star brawler, taking down professional boxers, mixed martial arts champs and ultimate fighters in a series of staggeringly intense bouts. But, if Shawn ever hopes to escape the dark world in which he's found himself, he must now face the toughest fight of his life.
| Starring | Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Brian J. White, Luis Guzmán, Zulay Henao, Roger Guenveur Smith, Angelic Zambrana, Anthony DeSando, Aaron Behr, Cung Le, Luis Guzman |
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| Director | Dito Montiel |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 45 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Subtitles | Blu-ray: Dutch, Romanian, German, Danish, Mandarin, Spanish, Korean, Norwegian, French, Italian, Portuguese, English, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 28 Sep 2009 Blu-ray: 28 Sep 2009 Production year: 2009 |
| Format | DVD |
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The tell-it-as-it-is title hardly indicates anything out of the ordinary, but this bare-knuckle boxing flick is put... read more on Time Out
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19 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Movie is as unimpressive as the title !
This movie was quite slow paced and very boring at times. The fight scenes were unimpressive, and in all fairness I have seen Channing in better form than in this movie.Howard's character speaking was what annoyed me most (he doesn't usually speak like that as I have seen him in other movies): it was slow and sluggish and made watching his character on screen annoying. I think what this movie lacked was energy/heart or passion whatever you want to call it. It's a shame, being a Rocky-esque style movie it could have been done so much better.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
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Farting not fighting
Terrence Howard is a great actor, unfortunately for this film he was turned into an intelligent version of Forrest Gump only less entertaining - if this was the only film you had watched him in, then his career would be over. The Plot was unbelievably thin, the Direction was poor and all of the supporting cast were inadequate. Channing Tatum should have saved his talents. The trailers looked great, it should have been a great action film with a great storyline and cast. I gave it 1 star because there are worse films than this out there, but only just. The Director should be abandoned in the Arctic
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Fighting - BLU-RAY Version
A small-town boy hustling his way through the big city forms an uneasy alliance with a scam artist who inducts him into the violent world of bare-knuckle brawling in A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS writer/director Dito Montiel's unforgiving urban action film. Arriving in New York City with ...
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Fighting
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for street fighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, ...
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