(The eye candy in this movie never ends if you're a young female or a gay male.) Though its script leaves no cliché unturned, Never Back Down is a notch above the norm in the genre, mainly due to director Wadlow's ability to keep everything on track. Of course, there's the final showdown between the underdog and his tormentor, which is ultimately just another excuse for the two of them to once again strip down to their gym shorts and show off their rock-hard physiques. Motivated by revenge, Jake seeks to hone his raw talent for violent behavior by training with a Senegalese-born coach (Hounsou), a man of few words who teaches his new student that throwing a punch is as much a mental act as it is a physical one. That is, until he is publicly humiliated by his new nemesis, Ryan (Gigandet), the school's reigning prince of extreme sports who also happens to be the boyfriend of the girl (Heard) who flirts with Jake in English class. When a YouTube clip of his fists of fury makes the rounds of his high school, however, Jake suddenly becomes the new badass in town. (And maybe a little Rocky thrown in for good measure.) Jake (Faris), a hot-headed hottie with a big temper, finds himself the new kid in town when his family moves from corn-fed Iowa to the suburban hell of southern Florida, where his inexplicable tan is the only thing that initially fits in. The mixed martial arts flick Never Back Down borrows from other movies almost shamelessly – it's The Karate Kid meets Fight Club by way of Abercrombie & Fitch.
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