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Never Back Down 113 minutes, USA (2008), 15
(2.5)
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Our rating:
Average user rating (4.9 / 9 votes)
Never Back Down

A new kid at a high school gets into mixed martial arts and must learn to control his anger issues in this drama starring Sean Faris and Djimon Hounsou

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Never Back Down: It's a Karate Kid for the Fast And The Furious generation, or Girlfight (with a boy) meets 'The OC'. Or maybe even Bring It On meets Fight Club.

Yes, Never Back Down is a familiar proposition, but it's also a film with a bizarre melange of tones. This is a standard US high school story loaded with harsh ultraviolence, as boys (and some girls) beat seven bells out of one another...
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