The script isn't memorable, but the dialogue is believable, and star Faris is blessed with an easy smile and a likable swagger. 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.ĭirector Jeff Wadlow does manage to drum up some excitement by letting the action unspool with a light touch. Never Back Down offers extreme fighting as the modern-day alternative to sex, drugs and rock n roll. Teaser Trailer for WHEN HOPE CALLS Features First Look At Lori Loughlin.
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. NEVER BACK DOWN, a popcorn movie, stars Sean Faris as Jake Tyler, a high school. 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. The cuts are so quick that you can't appreciate any technique.
The title (of the movie), "Never Back Down," that's why I got this role. "I tested for it on the acting side four times, but then I had to go fight test for it, and then - the hardest test of all - was meeting with the executives and convincing and proving to them that I was the right guy for the role," Faris said to MMA Junkine in a 2008 interview when asked how he got the role. The film didn't receive strong reviews but did earn $41.6 million at the box office. Never Back Down was released in 2008 and stars Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet and Djimon Hounsou. Bisping, a retired MMA fighter, is known for his role in the film Den of Thieves, and Johnson, who plays the antagonist in the film, was featured in Hurricane Heist.
Popica is known for her role in the TV series Informer and made a brief appearance in the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Never Back Down: Revolt also stars Michael Bisping, Brooke Johnston, Diana Hoyos, Neetu Chandra and James Faulkner. The film will focus on a woman (Olivia Popica) who is kidnapped and forced to compete in underground fights as she looks to escape.