Embattled is a well acted , nuts and bolts , fight film that although, very watchable, is ultimately let down by the final act .
Stephen Dorff is excellent as the greedy , selfish MMA champion , who treats both of his families really bad because of his own upbringing. Darren Mann who plays his son Jett is great too but here is where lies the big problem with the film .
The father and son may have a history together that is tainted and they are at both ends of the fighting scale so what makes you think that they are ready to fight each other ??
It wouldn't happen and that's what makes this film just a little bit unbelievable.
I like the whole background story of how Cash behaved with his first family and how he is repeating it with his new family and that's the glue that holds the film together, it's just the fight scenes that make this film a little baggy .
The scenes where we see Cash as a younger man and treating Jett badly as an 8 year old are badly done. The make up department made him look 10 years older and it looked strange.
Overall i found it entertaining and I nearly gave it four stars but because of the predictable ending ( or unpredictable, which ever way you look at it) , it just fell short .
