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| Year: 2009 |
| Director: Dito Montiel |
| Cast: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao, Michael Rivera, Flaco Navaja, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Luis Guzmán, Anthony DeSando, Roger Guenveur Smith, Brian J. White, Ivan Martin, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Altagracia Guzman, Gabrielle Pelucco, |
| Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama |
| Runtime: 105 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Wallpapers: available |
| Plot: New York City, the present. Shawn McArthur (Channing Tatum) is a street hustler, one day when selling counterfeit DVDs and books at the corner of Radio City Music Hall he is set up on by some youths. The youths work for Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard), a ticket scalper who controls the corner. Shawn fights off three youths but doesn't get his money or products back.
Later Shawn sees Harvey and the youth who stole his money in a cafe and he confronts them. Harvey gives him his money back and offers him a chance to a 'winner takes all' fight for money. Harvey sets up a meeting with his friend and rival, Martinez (Luis Guzman).
Shawn's first fight is at a church in Brooklyn against a Russian. He wins when he knocks the Russian into a water fountain. Harvey takes Shawn to a club where he meets a waitress named Zulay (Zulay Henao), a single mother who Shawn had earlier tried to sell a Chinese fake Harry Potter book to.
In the VIP area to the club Shawn also meets Evan Hailey (Brian White), a professional fighter who used to be on the same college team as Shawn, and was coached by Shawn's Dad. Shawn and Harvey leave after Evan and Shawn nearly get into a fight.
Shawn's second fight is at the back of a store in the Bronx, against a much larger opponent. The fight descends into chaos after interference from some of Harvey's crew and the woman who owns the store pulls out a gun for the destruction of her store. Harvey, Shawn and the rest of Harvey's crew flee the scene and neither fighter gets paid. For his third fight Shawn and the crew go to an Asian owned penthouse. Shawn wins the third fight.
Between fights Shawn meets Zulay a few times, before they eventually consummate their relationship. Shawn and Zulay are visited by Harvey and Shawn leaves in disgust, suspecting Zulay and Harvey of having a sexual relationship. Harvey explains that Zulay places bets for him.
Shawn and Harvey are offered a fight against Evan, and Shawn accepts, but Harvey wants him to throw the fight so that Martinez and his associates can make money. Shawn agrees to throw the fight. Zulay places the bets, a total of $500,000.
Shawn and Evan fight, with Zulay, Harvey and the rest of the crew watching. Evan has Shawn in a chokehold and Shawn is about to throw the fight when he decides to fight back and overpowers Evan. Shawn beats Evan and Martinez threatens Harvey.
At Harvey's apartment Shawn reveals Zulay reversed the bets and they have one million dollars. Zulay picks up Shawn and Harvey and they leave New York with Zulay's daughter and Mother. |
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Fighting comments / review |
| Date: 2009-12-17 22:29:08 |
User: PostFilm |
With a name like Fighting, a movie had better come fully equipped with the goods. That means more bare-handed, mixed martial arts than should be allowed by law. That means more broken bones, cuts, abrasions and black eyes than I care to see. Instead, Dito Montiel directed an implausible, predictable movie that comes up short on everything I had expected.
To start, there is less fighting in this than there is in a typically mundane episode of The Facts of Life (exactly). Getting past that, it turns out the story is as lame as Perez Hilton, and it has characters (the biggest exclamation point being appended to the lead roles) that are half-fleshed out and unworthy of anyone’s time. Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum), the protagonist of the film, is a half-wit con-man who is unapologetic and about as interesting as a class in basket weaving. Tatum scowls and pouts like a champion (since he sure as shit can’t fight like one), harboring some deep seated, painful memories like a weight attached to his neck. But we’re hard pressed to fully understand why he finds himself in the situation he is in and, more importantly, why we’re supposed to cheer for him.
After all, when we’re first introduced to him, he’s scamming Zulay Valez (Zulay Henao) in the streets and then himself gets hustled by a group of more experienced thieves led by Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard). Shawn gets angry and starts a fight — but isn’t he getting what is due to him? When Harvey takes him in and gets him into the underground fighting scene (where Shawn can presumably make some real money), Shawn looks a gift horse in the mouth and soon finds himself back at square one — but isn’t he getting what is due to him? And why should we care if he wins the heart of Zulay — do we want her and her daughter to travel down that dead end street?
Then there is Harvey, who, days after watching Fighting, I’m still trying to figure out. As soft spoken and low-key as he is, it is hard to imagine that he has any success at swindling people — especially with his internal desire to do good by everyone. Even during what I suppose is a pivotal scene, he maintains his ridiculously passive demeanor in the face of his own mortality (knowing how the situation arises makes it all the more unbelievable too).
But even though it all turned out to be a muddled mess, I do have to give a some acknowledgment to Dito Montiel and Robert Munic for at least trying to throw a left hook when I was thinking right cross. It is clear that the film wasn’t actually about fighting per se, but instead it is about the fight to make something more for oneself. It is a great moral to impress upon people, it just needed a heck of a lot more work to come out as intended.
Out of it all, there was one bit part that livened up Fighting and stuck in my head. It was Zulay’s grandmother Alba (Altagracia Guzman). The scene in which she is admonishing Zulay for spending time with a boy like Shawn was an absolute treat. I’ll bet Ms. Guzman has had that exact scenario play out in her home dozens of times in her 78 years.
A single standout scene, however, is hardly reason enough to watch the movie. |
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