Max Cooperman, after befriending Jake, introduces him to MMA and gets him connected with an instructor named Jean Roqua. Jake manages to pass a few of Roqua's physical tests and impresses him with his willpower and is accepted as his student. Roqua warns Jake that while he is under his instructorship, Jake cannot fight outside the gym no matter the reason and if he breaks the rule he will be thrown out of his gym. While Jake trains under Roqua, he initially has difficulty doing so due to his anger towards his incident with Ryan. Baja tries to make amends with Jake by apologizing for her role in the fight between him and Ryan but Jake refuses to forgive her. When Ryan shows no remorse for his fight with Jake or his sadistic tendencies, Baja breaks up with him, to which Ryan responds by aggressively grabbing her. When Jake tries to intervene to protect Baja, Ryan insults him about his father again and leaves. At practice, with Jake still furious over what happened, is told by Roqua to leave the gym until he cools off. Riding back from the gym with Max, Jake gets into a road rage brawl with a group of men whom he easily dispose of. Max films the video, which circulates around the school and raises Jake's social status which ends up agitating Ryan enough to confront Jake. After cornering Jake in the bathroom and roughing him up, he challenges Jake to compete in the Beatdown, an underground fighting tournament of which Ryan is the reigning champion. When Roqua discovers that Jake has fought outside the gym, he kicks him out and tells him he is not welcome back. A little while later, after Jake pleads with him, Roqua obliges and welcomes Jake back to the gym. Roqua puts Jake through more rigorous training which Jake uses in preparation for the Beatdown. After a workout, Roqua confides in Jake that he came from Brazil and is in self imposed exile. He tells Jake that his brother was a skilled MMA fighter and had handily beaten a local troublemaker who had challenged him. The man later returned with a gun and murdered his brother. Jean's father blames him for the death, saying he should have been watching out for him. Jake later on meets with Baja and apologizes for not forgiving her and they start a relationship. Jake eventually becomes reluctant to compete at the Beatdown seeing it as something Ryan wants, but his mind is changed after Ryan invites Max to his house and assaults him, leaving him on Jake's doorstep to be found. After leaving Max at the hospital, Jake goes to see Roqua and initially arguing over Jake's decision to participate in the Beatdown eventually relents and reminds Jake to "control the outcome".
Jake arrives at the tournament and both he and Ryan make their way through each round, each emerging victorious. Jake makes it to the semifinals in spite of an injury he received in the previous match. Baja arrives to not only support him, but to tell him that she understands why he insists on fighting: so that he would never have to fight again. After learning that Ryan was disqualified in his semifinal match due to an illegal eye gouge, Jake forfeits, seeing no reason to continue. While he and Baja attempt to leave, Ryan confronts him and the two finally fight outside in the parking lot. Jake is still limited by his injury, and Ryan at first gains the upper hand, applying a choke on Jake. However Jake escapes and knocks out Ryan using one of the first combinations Roqua taught him. Eventually, Jake wins the respect of his fellow students, including Ryan; and Roqua decides to go back to Brazil to reconcile with his father.
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Movie historian Leonard Maltin cited the picture as "A wildly improbable and cliched, yet entertaining (particularly for fans of this genre), variation on The Karate Kid...wherein Faris and Heard have the Ralph Macchio and (respectively) Elisabeth Shue roles, while Gigandet (who can glare with the best of them) is in William Zabka's...All in all, the film Showdown tried to be".[8]
A 2011 sequel titled Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown was released with Evan Peters reprising his role as Max Cooperman. Directed by Michael Jai White in his directorial debut, the film stars White alongside Alex Meraz, Jillian Murray, MMA fighters Todd Duffee, Lyoto Machida, Scott Epstein and Australian actor-singer Dean Geyer.[11]
Thereason I am still here is because I pitched my tent around a promise of God. Ihave held on to that promise for 28 years and I am still looking for itsfulfilment in my nation in my generation. I have decided I am not giving up andI am not backing down. The moment we give up we are finished, the moment weback down we are finished and the moment we lose faith we are finished.
Toback down is to settle for less than what God says. All around me I seeChristians who have backed down and have lowered the bar of their expectation.This can be for any number of reasons but it is usually rooted in unmetexpectations, disappointment and painful experiences. The scripture declares weall suffer the same kind of sufferings however it also tells us to stand firmin faith. I have suffered exactly the same things you have but I am not backingdown.
Jake pays no heed to his mom when she tells him to stop fighting. And he spends money on gym fees that was intended for other things, which also frustrates his mother. Later, she actually comes around to support him, but she never enforces any real consequences for his disobedience. Jake takes a couple of cheap verbal shots at Roqua in moments of anger.
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The Never Back Down franchise moves in a different direction with Never Back Down: Revolt. The new film is female-driven, focused on an amateur fighter (played by Olivia Popica) who holds nothing back in saving herself and fellow captives from a brutal underground organization.
Fight movies have their place in cinematic history (Rocky, anyone?); done right, they manage to capture the humanity in the brutality and the poetry in the punch, but NEVER BACK DOWN doesn't. The cuts are so quick that you can't appreciate any technique. And though, like better sports films, the film does attempt to reveal the internal struggles that fuel the physical ones, it does so with overly broad strokes. There's little nuance or complication and so many fight scenes that when the movie finally gets to the big beat down, it's almost anti-climactic -- it just feels like yet another battle. The movie's also riddled with cliches; there's a supportive girlfriend, a funny sidekick, mantras ("Control the outcome"), and even a race between the mentor and the mentee that's a straight rip-off of Rocky.
The upcoming Never Back Down: Revolt will change things up quite a bit for the Never Back Down series. Beginning with the original Never Back Down in 2008, the MMA series really found its groove with 2011's Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown, which also marked the directorial debut of Michael Jai White. The series later continued in 2016 with Never Back Down: No Surrender, with White once again directing. Never Back Down: Revolt will see Kellie Madison in the director's chair, while the movie itself will be quite a different entity from the three before it.
Revolt will see Olivia Popica play a woman who is kidnapped and forced to compete in an underground MMA tournament. While not much else has been revealed about the film aside from casting info (such as former MMA fighter Michael Bisping portraying one of the villains), this already shows that Revolt is raising the stakes considerably from those of the first three Never Back Down movies by bringing a kidnapping plot and an underground tournament into the mix like a throwback to the Bloodsport and Kickboxer movies.
Never Back Down focused on a high school kid with anger issues learning to temper his rage through MMA, while The Beatdown followed a whole new set of characters. Despite Evan Peters' returning from the first film, the two movies mostly stood alone. No Surrender re-centered its focus on White's character Case Walker, the MMA mentor of The Beatdown, returning for an upcoming fight in Thailand, but the film was enough of a singular work that it didn't rely on viewers seeing either of its predecessors either. What they really had in common was their shared focus on MMA, with the latter two especially really hitting the mark with excellent action scenes.
Late 2000s douchebro The Karate Kid with a terrible script and an even worse soundtrack. I can't even imagine how many Chads, Kyles and Troys signed up to train MMA after watching this, just so they could purposely get into late-night fights at bars/clubs/Pizza Pizzas downtown to show their friends how much of a "badass" they are. a star for the decent enough MMA fighting sequences and of course, one star for my boy Djimon Hounsou because he's always great. It was trashy and exploitative enough to keep my interest again this time around but I don't think I'll be going back to it anytime soon. It fucking wreaks of 2008 and of Amber Turd's shit-stained former movie career.
Yeah, this is just the "Karate Kid" of that generation basically.
New, troubled kid moves into a new town, new school, meets a beautiful girl who has a bully boy friend who beats his ass. It's all there. Picking yourself up, find a mentor, train hard, come back strong. And I love it, I'm a sucker for these types of movies and the original "Karate Kid" was one of my favorites growing up, and I would've been as much of a fan boy over "Never Back Down" if this were my generation.
So obviously as previously stated, it borrows a lot from that '80s classic, and many movies did, but still, I found this one to be the most succesful at it. A highly likeable cast, exciting fight scenes with adequate choreography,...loved it! 589ccfa754
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