Howard was the only good thing about this film. For a movie that seemed to have all the elements of a decent action film, nothing really worked.

They really pushed the boat out with the title.

At the start I thought this was a comedy. Instead it was a really dull movie about some guy who fights other guys and likes a girl.

"Fighting evocatively captures the texture of New York City." - Nick Schager

A movie that wants more than anything to be Rocky, right down to the wonky guitar riffs, work out sequences and gritty urban squalor. But Channing Tatum doesn't have the emotional range to pull off a character of nuance or the ugliness to pull off a convincing tough guy. Most of the time is spent muddling about the characters' incoherent attempts to interact with each other in charmless relationships.

Too bad the boxing blueprint doesn't provide Montiel the profound insight of Walter Hill's Hard Times and Undisputed which perfectly combined class, ethnicity and existentialism into the two best boxing movies ever made.

The 20 is for shirtless Channing Tatum.

Eat shit Channing Tatum

Dull, lifeless, and even retarded. The way people kept randomly meeting up on the streets of Manhattan was just laughable.

I came in expecting nothing and did not regret my time spent.

Very predictable with some good fight scenes... simple as that

A pleasant surprise. Terrance Howard keeps the film afloat, and the film surprisingly relies more on plot than action. It wasn't as bad as I would have sworn it would be after seeing the initial trailer.

Channing Tatum mumbles and then takes off his shirt. Repeat for ~90 minutes.

Not as bad as one might expect. Tatum was rubbish but there were some interesting characters (Howard was good). Rumble film that is at least better than the dribble that is 'Never Back Down'.

One of Tatum's greatest films, (apart from in Coach Carter!), great action and plot, although its no Fight Club!!

This was an awful movie. There's really not much to say here. Never Back Down was better and Never Back Down was crap (though I enjoyed it... it's my boy... we all have those movies). Poor acting, poor chemistry between those actors and just a plot that didn't gel together very well makes it crap. Oh, and its attempt to be gritty. No, it's not gritty, it's a dude who can't act and seems to borrow mannerisms from Eminem, who gets in fights and emotes in a bad way. Skiiiiip.

A 100-minute mumble-fest; there are very few clean, audible lines in the entire flick, and where, with "Rocky", that's lovable, here it's just annoying. Didn't find myself attached to ANY characters, wasn't convinced by their inter-relationships, and most of the fighting had no technique, devolving into glorified bar-fights (save the fight with Cung Le, but he's an actual MMA guy, so that makes sense). In short, too much of this flick felt phoned in, and it failed to entertain me on any level.

Bad Movie