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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195043229
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Summit Entertainment
Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Summit Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 1300
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 14, 2008
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Product Description:
Jake is the new kid in school. When a beautiful girl befriends him he thinks he is set. Her fight club boyfriend isnt happy. Jake turns to a martial arts master who teaches him how to fight..And how to walk away. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 01/06/2009 Starring: Sean Faris Cam Gigandet Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
If you get caught up in the sweaty fight scenes in Never Back Down--and, despite the formulaic plot, you very likely will--it will be due to the sheer kinetic pleasure of muscular bodies in motion. Jake (Tom Cruise look-alike Sean Faris, Yours, Mine, and Ours), full of anger after his father's death, starts to find a place for himself at his new Florida high school--until Ryan, the head of an underground mixed-martial arts (Cam Gigandet, The O.C.), picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of everyone in school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a martial arts master with a hidden past (Djimon Hounsou, a long way from Blood Diamond, but still bringing his essential gravitas to the screen). Basically, Never Back Down boils down to a cross between The Karate Kid and Fight Club, minus the sociopolitical commentary. The story and characters are a bundle of featherweight cliches, but that won't stop the aggressively edited fight sequences from stoking a viewer's adrenaline. Also starring Amber Heard (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) as the very blonde love interest, who (along with an abundance of girls in bikinis--'cause, y'know, it's Florida) is there to assure everyone that these handsome, chiseled boys are strictly heterosexual. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent movie
this movie is excellent if you want to see a little action mixed with the OC.
I definetly recommend NEVER BACK DOWN!
Rating:  - Not Worth Watching
I don't think I'll ever understand movies like this. I've never seen the point of boxing or fighting except for one man to prove dominance over another. And honestly, nobody cares who's more masculine. You don't have to be at the top of the masculinity food chain to have a good life, and that's the message this movie doesn't send.
"Never Back Down" entices a wide female audience with lots of buff shirtless guys beating each other up. "Never Back down" also entices a large male audience ... Read More
Rating: - Homage to the montage
Get a blender, mix Karate Kid, Rocky 3&4, add a touch of Indiana Jones and Best of the Best, the sport of MMA, and this is what you'll get.
This movie is exactly what it was intended to be, an updated guy movie cashing in on the UFC's popularity. Much of this film (lines, scenes, plot) is directly derived from the movies I mentioned above, almost like the director is paying tribute to the training montage. Sure it's formulaic & predictable & cliche', it's well done for what you should ... Read More
Rating:  - Kickboxing: "All the Rage"
Seldom do students get more excited than when a fight breaks out at school. Add to that the list of extreme sports and, especially, the addition of kickboxing to mainstream audiences, and you've got a sure-fire way to capture and keep the shortest attention spans for a movie.
It is on this premise that I felt an inclination to dock 'Never Back Down'. The sense of pervasive violence with a sport I don't particularly like led to this belief, but I don't like to do that. A movie should be judged ... Read More
Rating:  - 'Would like to give it four stars
I really liked this movie. There are so many reasons that I wanted to give it more than three stars.
Though it's derivative of other similarly-themed movies - new kid in school, while battling personal demons, must prove himself against the established bully - "Never Back Down" has an appealing hero in the form of Sean Faris as Jake Tyler, a villain that brings out the hisses (Cam Gigandet), a comely love interest (Amber Heard), an encouraging sidekick (Evan Peters), and a wise sage/trainer that ... Read More
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195043229
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Summit Entertainment
Manufacturer: Summit Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Summit Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 1300
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 14, 2008