Fighting

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 little ...more

MMA will lose its luster at some point, but for now, it’s all the rage. Pay-Per-View events air on a seemingly daily basis, and the sport's stars now appear across a spectrum of pop culture mediums, from video games to movies. Fighting is a product of America's MMA-fever—Bloodsport for a new generation. Sometimes Fighting works, sometimes it doesn't, but it's always punchy and fun. Fighting follows Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum), a Harry Potter-bootlegging ‘hood rat who can't seem to keep ...more

With a name like Fighting, you would think that you'd be in for a rock 'em-sock 'em exercise in big-screen brawling with little on its brain other than four-knuckled fist-to-face action. However, what lies at the heart of this picture is far from the silly affair that the title would make it seem to be. If anything, this straight-from-the-streets tale should be called "Talking" -- or better yet, "Yawning." Packing a dramatic punch rather than a violent one, Fighting is a chameleon flick -- one ...more