Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Luis Guzman
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 h...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 25, 2009
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September 7, 2009Ugh...so sad. Love Terrence Howard and this so dissapointed. What a crappy movie. It's called fighting, you would expect a lot more of it. The story was crap, there was so much "fake" acting I wanted to scream. I still don't know why I sat throught the whole thing...but all I can...( read more)
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September 6, 2009Too much hype with this movie tbh its a seen it all before flick not got much going for it
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August 26, 2009"Some dreams are worth the fight."
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....( read more) -
August 25, 2009Not really a fan of Howard...his voice gets to me after awhile. Tatum is nice to look at, but not a good actor at all. The bookie was a horrible actor as well! The hot guys are what saved this for me :P
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August 21, 2009Hmmmmm....
Channing Tatum is certainly one to watch out for his name keeps popping up in the movies these days... though he is the stereotypical US youth and his accent is very recognisable and his acting.... has yet to develop, to put it nicley. But he's here, and he can't be i...( read more) -
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November 13, 2009The story of the movie promised more, the cast was great, but if you are going to name a movie fighting i think it should have really good figthting scenes, which sadly the movie lacked.
It was sad to see that they make Shawn look like someone who doesn't know how to fight.
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November 12, 2009A MUST SEE!!!! Don't expect the story to blow you away, the happy ending can clearly be seeing halfway through but the twist at the end was a job well done! The cast has so much charisma that just gets you hook and makes the typical movie, not so typical and quite enjoyable. I'm ...( read more)
Critic Reviews
April 24, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
April 24, 2009
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Though by no means original or especially ambitious, Fighting turns out to be a surprisingly watchable B-movie. full review
April 24, 2009
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com
Surprisingly this turns out to be the real deal, full of ferocious, red-hot, action-packed dynamite. full review
April 24, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
This story of a country boy who goes to the big city and uses his brawn to make his way is so slow it's almost inert. full review
April 24, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
You might expect a movie called Fighting to be a blunt, literal affair, and in the case of Dito Montiel's new film, you would not be wrong. full review
April 23, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's all footnotes, hardly any main story, and overcompensates by jacking up the violence. full review
April 23, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I like the way the personalities are allowed to upstage the plot in Fighting, a routine three-act fight story that creates uncommonly interesting characters. full review
April 23, 2009
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Fighting evocatively captures the texture of New York City full review
April 22, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
Too bad the boxing blueprint doesn't provide Montiel the profound insight of Walter Hill's Hard Times and Undisputed which perfectly combined class, ethnicity and existentialism into the two best boxi... full review
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