Never Back Down
- Sean Faris: Jake Tyler
- Amber Heard: Baja Miller
- Cam Gigandet: Ryan McCarthy
- Evan Peters: Max Cooperman
- Leslie Hope: Margot Tyler
- Djimon Hounsou: Jean Roqua
- Wyatt Smith: Charlie Tyler
- Affion Crockett: Swagga
- Neil Brown Jr.: Aaron
- Lauren Leech: Jenny
- Tilky Jones: Eric
- Steven Crowley: Ben Costigan
- Tom Nowicki: Mr. Lloyd
- David Zelon: Ryan's father
The Fighters ( Original title: Never Back Down ) is an American action film from 2008 directed by Jeff Wadlow, the screenplay was written by Chris Hauty. .
Action
Jake Tyler and his family move from Iowa to Orlando, Florida, because his little brother Charlie has received a tennis scholarship to a boarding school thereat. At Jake's new high school is the most affluent and bored youths pass the time with boxing matches against each other. DC on his first day he tried Max Cooperman, one of these young people to help in ignorance of the facts on one of these fights. Max then discovered on the Internet a video that Jake shows how he beat up after a football game an opposing player who provokes him with the death of his father. This has, with the sober Jake in the passenger seat, of alcohol in a car accident caused, in which he died, whereupon Jake got strong feelings of guilt and thereby get his aggression only difficult to control. In this video, Jake attracts the attention of Ryan McCarthy, the best fighters in the school.
Ryan will then fight with Jake and lets him throw a party in his house by his girlfriend Baja Miller. There you can Jake, who actually do not want to fight, provoked by Ryan with the death of his father, fighting against him and is severely beaten by Ryan, who trains various combat techniques since childhood. As a result, Jake leaves of Max, with whom he has since befriended persuaded to do away with work by Jean Roqua, the best Mixed Martial Arts Coach of the city, to take revenge with Ryan.
In the meantime, come Jake and Baja, which has separated from Ryan because of his high-handed behavior, closer and finally a couple. Max is now trying to persuade Jake to in the annual battle competition The Beat Down, a prestigious fighting tournament, which was won in recent years by Ryan to compete in order to take revenge on this. But Jake refuses because he has his guilt now been overcome by the relationship to Baja and training with Roqua. Then Ryan beats the untalented Max the night before the competition hospitalized, whereupon Jake but participating in the competition to stop Ryan. Both fight their way to the semifinals, where Ryan is disqualified in his fight for eyes piercing and Jake then did not compete for his fight because he's just Ryan. When Jake then leaves the room, he is attacked in the parking lot in front of Ryan. After only one-sided fight in favor of McCarthy's Jake a flashback of all his previous experiences and training in Orlando had. He remembers the techniques Roqua taught him and applies them. He finished the fight by a knock-out by McCarthy meets with a round kick to the head.
In the final scene can be seen as Roqua his things packed to travel to Brazil with his family and Jake enjoying his day with Baja on the lake.
Reviews
John Anderson wrote in the journal Variety of 17 March 2008, this glorifies violence ( " glorification of violence" ) film can become a success with the public. Anderson praised the representations of Sean Faris, of the " charismatic" Cam Gigandet and Djimon Hounsou, which acts like Pat Morita.
Blockbuster TV called The Fighters as " flat Haudrauf Strip " with the " dubious Message: Problems to solve best with fists. "
Background
- The film was shot in Los Angeles, Orlando and in some other places in Florida.
- He came to the world premiere on March 4, 2008 in Hollywood on March 14, 2008 in the cinemas in the U.S. and Canada. The German theatrical release was on August 14, 2008.
- The film had a budget of 20 million U.S. dollars
- The film played until April 21 worldwide in 2008 approximately 41.6 million U.S. dollars, including about 24.9 million U.S. dollars in the cinema of the United States.
Soundtrack
Continuation
2011 appeared The Fighters 2: The Beatdown ( Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown ), which is directly linked to the first part, but tells its own story. The government took over Michael Jai White.