Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3660 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-07-29
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.com
If you get caught up in the sweaty fight scenes in Never Back Down--and, despite the formulaic plot, you very likely will--it will be due to the sheer kinetic pleasure of muscular bodies in motion. Jake (Tom Cruise look-alike Sean Faris, Yours, Mine, and Ours), full of anger after his father's death, starts to find a place for himself at his new Florida high school--until Ryan, the head of an underground mixed-martial arts (Cam Gigandet, The O.C.), picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of everyone in school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a martial arts master with a hidden past (Djimon Hounsou, a long way from Blood Diamond, but still bringing his essential gravitas to the screen). Basically, Never Back Down boils down to a cross between The Karate Kid and Fight Club, minus the sociopolitical commentary. The story and characters are a bundle of featherweight cliches, but that won't stop the aggressively edited fight sequences from stoking a viewer's adrenaline. Also starring Amber Heard (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) as the very blonde love interest, who (along with an abundance of girls in bikinis--'cause, y'know, it's Florida) is there to assure everyone that these handsome, chiseled boys are strictly heterosexual. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Cliche Land of Ripped Abbed Hot Teens
An antagonistic mother who can't relate to her teenage son. Her son? Oh your stereotypical, incredibly way too good looking male protagonist. The kind of brooding, loner type angry at the world kind. He's also the new kid in High School and has already got a hot chick whose eyeing him ever since he gave an intricate long accelerated answer in English class. So the guy is perfect, but misunderstood by many. I know, we've all seen this one before. However, for what it is, it's well done, if you enjoy this Karate Kid genre re-vamped, then why not. What's interesting about this movie? Everyone is HOT in it. How did that happen? Realistic it most definitely is not. It's a little on the cheesy side, but still watchable. Some comparisons made to Fight Club because of the fighting matches, but it's not quite as prolific and profound as Fight Club which was a masterpiece in comparison. This film held my interest, then lost it, then held it, it's okay adrenaline fun, bad after school special, nothing to ever aspire to..god forbid. The message of the movie is pointless and just plain bad, bad, bad, but who cares, it's just a movie not to be taken seriously, as there is nothing realistic about it, or at least I hope not.

Never back down
A Walk Through Life

Never back down is way better than I expected!

An outsider teen acclimating to a new school finds a home in a reclusive teenaged fight club in this drama from Cry_Wolf director Jeff Wadlow. Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) has just moved with his family to Orlando, FL. While Jake isn't exactly comfortable being the new kid in town, his younger brother, Charlie (Wyatt Smith), is an aspiring professional tennis star who might just have what it takes to break big. But Charlie isn't the only talented athlete in the family, because Jake used to be something of a hotshot on the gridiron -- at least back home. Here in Orlando, Jake is considered something of a hothead thanks to his penchant for brawling. In an attempt to better fit in with his new classmates, Jake accepts flirtatious classmate Baja's (Amber Heard) invitation to a raucous party. There, the short-fused newcomer is lured into a fight and badly beaten by local bully Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). But a beam of hope shines through the humiliation when a classmate who sees potential in the defeated fighter informs Jake of a local MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) program run by Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). Despite Jake's preconceived notions regarding MMA, he quickly discovers that it's not just another form of street fighting but a rich new art form that he longs to master. As Roqua takes Jake under his tutelage, it soon becomes apparent that in order to become a true MMA champion, Jake will have to learn patience, discipline, willingness, and reason. This isn't just a quest for revenge, but an opportunity for Jake to finally find out what kind of man he truly is.

Duane A Poole

this movie was a lot better than what I thought
Never Back Down was a lot better than what I thought it would be I really enjoyed watching this movie on DVD now it wasan't the best movie I've seen but it was a good movie period the action in this movie was awesome and I would recommend this movie to anybody who loves action movies because it's well worth having