Fighting
Fighting
PG-13 | 24 April 2009 (USA)
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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 streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Sexyloutak

Absolutely the worst movie.

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filippaberry84

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Taha Avalos

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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adonis98-743-186503

In New York City, a young counterfeiter is introduced to the world of underground street fighting by a seasoned scam artist, who becomes his manager on the bare-knuckling brawling circuit. Fighting tries to play it safe and not become another 'Rocky' rip-off and by the end that is what it's exactly turning into. It felt like i was watching 'Rocky V' but regardless of what anyone thinks about Part 5 it's still a really good movie unlike this one. Tatum doesn't have enough charisma to pass as a fighter and the film starts losing points from just that, Terrence Howard was just ok nothing special and the whole love story didn't do it for me either. I'd advice you to check something else. (3/10)

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mathumphreys

I saw a clip of Channing Tatum shadow boxing the pole on the train and thought that this looked promising. Unfortunately it turned out to be a very boring predictable movie with really poor dialogue and overplayed characters.Some good actors in this movie, but nothing about them or the movie itself made me want to buy in to it. It was just hard work. Essentially it was a series of average (to be honest pretty boring) fight scenes linked with a predictable, boring storyline that contained a forced and unbelievable love thread.Another example of the trailer being better than the movie.

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loogenhausen

Featuring probably the most generic title of 2009, Fighting has a few of the right ingredients but too many of the wrong ones. Channing Tatum's mush-mouthed "aw shucks" gentle half-giant performance is too annoying to ignore and he comes off a lot like John Cena's dumber brother. I have no idea what Terrence Howard is doing in here, but as usual he's the only one that turns in a good performance. It's nice to see The Guz in another film, but he's hardly in it enough to matter. The female lead is so cardboard and generically pretty that you can't even try to care about her. The fights, which are what this movie is supposed to be about, are MTV-ified and feel even more staged than a bad WCW match. There are too many plot holes that stare you right in the face and everyone seems to conveniently know each other just a little too well to conveniently serve the dull script. I'm not sure if it's Dito Montiel's fault or not, since he's responsible for the superior in every way A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints. I'm sure teeny boppers are clamoring to see a shirtless Tatum but anyone else looking for a memorable movie about underground fighting would be better off watching Gladiator (with Cuba Gooding not Russell Crowe) or Fight Club.

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pc95

It took Hollywood awhile to dust off the old fighting genre. Here we have 'Fighting", more or less an updated version of Van Damme's Lionheart thankfully with a little more realistically choreographed fighting. There's a few details and character development which has some thought worked into it, but unfortunately it doesn't make up for horribly clichéd romance and painful associated dialog to follow. Terrence Howard does the best he can with his hustler character, but there's not much of interest going on. The fight scenes are better than a lot other movies, but they cant carry the movie alone. The "thugs" and investors are cookie-cutter. There are worse movies out there, but this certainly isn't a good movie anyway you cut it.

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