You will feel stupid for watching this film. Or anything other than the equivalent of a lobotomy. Or even terribly baddily awesomely bad/good. Chris Hauty needs to quit writing, and just about every member of the cast…well, we’ll forgive them for this because they were just doing what they were told.īottom line? Don’t expect this to be good. Jai White needs to stick to what he does best…acting tough in movies. He’s managed to capture the action during the fighting in an appropriate manner, but whoo boy, those sex scenes? Brutal. Michael Jai White is not the worst Director ever, but that’s not praise in the least. The writing is about it where it should be, with Chris Hauty bringing forth the same dreck that he spewed onto paper for the original Never Back Down, and the acting is what you’d expect from this type of cast. It just stays in the ghetto of despair for 100 or so minutes. The worst thing about it, though, is that it doesn’t even head into “so bad, it’s good” territory. There is no accurate way to describe how bad it actually is.

Never Back Down 2 is probably one of the stupidest movies ever made. Now content to live in his motor home and train college kids, Case agrees to take them under his wing, and starts them off punching the ground and pieces of paper. To do this, they will need a tough trainer to bring them up to speed, and are sent to see Case ( Michael Jai White), a former mixed martial arts specialist who was big in the game until he ran into some trouble with the law. Hoping to reclaim their honour or some such nonsense…Zack is a boxer who isn’t allowed to box anymore because of an eye injury, and Mike is a wrestler whose life has been flipped-turned upside down because his dad likes dudes….they decide to sign up for a chance to knock the hell out of the other contenders in the octagon. When Zack and Mike start their first semester at university, they learn about “The Beatdown” an underground UFC event that everyone on campus knows about. But in the case of Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown….well, it doesn’t really pack a punch, so much as a kick in the nuts. In some cases, films based around these popular sports capture the essence and vibe of what made the sport so popular in the first place. Roller Derby, Roller Skating, Figure Skating, Skateboarding…nothing is sacred. It seems like a no-brainer in the film industry that whenever a sport gets popular enough, a film gets made to capitalize on it. Cast: Michael Jai White, Todd Duffee, Scottie Epstein

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