Oh, just give up already. The claim to fame of this film is that it brings together talent from the Mixed Martial Arts field. They may have talent in the ring, but they.re lacking talent in the acting department. Diego Carter (Hector Echavarria) is an up and coming star in the Mixed Martial Arts (Mma) field. He.s using his fame to party with his buds when one night at a club he.s smitten with Sandra (Silvia Koys) and she lures him to an underground fight. He.s introduced to Seifer (Patric Kilpatrick) who runs the no-holds-barred fights. Fighters are given .consorts. and the winner of the round gets to take the loser.s consort away and is given a...
- 4/28/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
If the behind the scenes documentaries on the DVD of Never Surrender are to be believed (and they Always are), this film was meant to be a major break-through for the world of mixed-martial arts. What is mixed martial arts, you’re probably not asking? If the plot of this film is any indication, it’s a place for really insecure guys to try and prove they’re not gay by taking their shirts off and wrestling each other. In a sense, this movie is the blood brother of Troy, a film so terrified of appealing to anyone but manly straight men that it is absolutely hilarious to everyone else. Except that you get the joke in the first ten minutes, and then there’s the whole rest of the movie to sit through.
Hector Echavarria (who also directed and provided the story) stars as Diego Carter, who is the best fighter in the world.
Hector Echavarria (who also directed and provided the story) stars as Diego Carter, who is the best fighter in the world.
- 4/25/2009
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
If the behind the scenes documentaries on the DVD of Never Surrender are to be believed (and they Always are), this film was meant to be a major break-through for the world of mixed-martial arts. What is mixed martial arts, you’re probably not asking? If the plot of this film is any indication, it’s a place for really insecure guys to try and prove they’re not gay by taking their shirts off and wrestling each other. In a sense, this movie is the blood brother of Troy, a film so terrified of appealing to anyone but manly straight men that it is absolutely hilarious to everyone else. Except that you get the joke in the first ten minutes, and then there’s the whole rest of the movie to sit through.
Hector Echavarria (who also directed and provided the story) stars as Diego Carter, who is the best fighter in the world.
Hector Echavarria (who also directed and provided the story) stars as Diego Carter, who is the best fighter in the world.
- 4/25/2009
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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