Better Late Then Never

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I snatched this flick up a couple years ago with the assumption that it was a documentary, this was before i went on IMDb. Now apparently it's a fake, a forgery, an action/drama, but I'm o.k. with that. The whole thing is shot on two or three cameras and follows some "fighters" around the town so we can peep into their lives and see what makes them tick. While watching it originally i was getting suspicious of the Karate teacher guy who claims he fought underground for years, during his recantation's of glory the only picture evidence we have that this guy competed in combat sports are from some high school basketball court that held a karate tournament. Then there's Bones. Who rattles off an extremely sad story of his dead brother, dead father, crack addled mother, being homeless and fighting for money. Conrado, the Judo practitioner who enters the sport and has fun making easy cash. Then we have J.G. who's story is the worst of them all, dead girlfriend, bouncing around temporary homes as a child, scrappin for money. Finally we have the two dudes running the show who have an online fight club layered under an online casino, where top dollar customers are invited to place bets on basement brawls. So the film is a forgery, all parties are paid customers, the heart-breaking background stories are a sham, and those bloody battles, nothing more then pre-scripted beatings. Although, i still like this flick. Even if it's a fake documentary, what some of these guys say about fighting carries weight. Conrado for example, as far as I'm concerned really does Judo, they show him roll with a real Judo class and he looks legit. His insights on fighting are worth checking out, and his music's not that bad either. Bones has some memorable lines too, in one long raga he talks about the unpredictability of opponents and that "you never know what your goona get". Ultimately if you go into this movie knowing it's fake and just roll with it, you may come away with something, there's always a thimble's worth of truth even in the biggest of all lies. There's also some interviews with such heavyweights as Bert Sugar and Larry Holmes, who give their insights about fighting illegally which is kinda cool. So yea it's a shameful thing to lie to us with what otherwise could have been a really moving doc. But don't be a hater, check it out for yourself and form your own opinion.

Just click the actors' names, man. Actors is the right word. This is 100% fake and I'd have nothing against it if it was presented honestly. A top secret underground fight org that you only find out about through an unsolicited e-mail from an online casino? All the fighters are runaways with tragic life stories? Honestly, 100% bullsh*t. Someone taps to a backwards armbar for crying out loud! The "canadian heavyweight champion" (of what really? from the pics he was geared up for point karate) is actually named Ron Mclean and has been it a bunch of other films. I honestly don't know if the film was marketed as a fake documentary, if it wasn't then it's just more anti mixed martial arts bullsh*t. Even if it was, it's still dumb as hell.

So today this movie was on t.v. and I decided to watch it. Its about two guys that own an underground fight club which they have a website and people can watch it on the internet and bet. The movie focuses on three underground fighters and how there lives are. One of the fighters is an 16 year old who is living with a couple of friends in some house they found and the only way he gets paid is if he wins, same goes with the rest. The movie tell there lives like one of the fighters is a DJ and the other works for some shoe company stocking shoes at a warehouse. this movies doesn't just show fighting(when they do show fights its sometimes really hard watching) but yeah this movies is interesting. It also tells about the two guys that own it. How they get most of the money and some goes to the fighter if they win. Which sounds like a scam to me. The movie is pretty sad especially when they get to the 16 year old fighter that is poor. all in all this movie was pretty good.