Where’s the Fight?

Fighting

This weekend I saw the Fighting. Sigh.

I know I know what was I thinking? Well my only other choices were Obsessed and Earth. I have no interest in watching Beyonce try to act. I have to listen to her stupid song 35 times a day I have no interest in paying to look at her. And a film that follows 3 families, animal packs, whatever, all over our great Earth is for field trips and tripping while watching the Discovery channel. But I would still watch Earth than Obsessed.

Anyways, you would think in a movie called Fighting there world be a lot of fighting in it. Right? You would be wrong. I was so pissed cuz I knew the movie was going to be bad but I only allowed myself to purchase the ticket because there would be a whole lot of ass kickin’. The gratuitous violence would make up for the lack of plot, script, and talent. But there was so little action you were forced to pay attention to what was happening in the movie instead of manically frothing at the mouth and screaming “Did you see that? DID YOU SEE THAT?”

The “story” follows Shawn MacArthur, Channing Tatum, who is poor / homeless. He meets Harvey Boarden, Terrence Howard, who is a hustler and wannabe fight promoter and his posse that follows him around. He also meets Zulay Valez, Zulay Henao, a waitress at some club. Harvey convinces Shawn to fight to make money. He meets a high school rival Evan Hailey, Brian White, and they have words. And something else happens, I don’t care, and neither will you.

Everything is wrong with this movie. There is excruciatingly horrible acting. Everyone seems sleepy, there is a lot of mumbling, it seems like they forgot their lines, or they are borderline retarded. There is a lack of story line, which was expected. It is predictable. The editing is choppy. The directing falls flat. And there is barely any fighting.

There are 4 fight sequences. 3 of them are about 2 minutes each. The last one, the big one, is maybe 4 minutes. So in a movie that is called Fighting with a runtime of 105 minutes there is only about 10 minutes of actual fighting in it. The thing is Shawn’s first 2 fights he doesn’t win. He gets the snot kicked out of him. He “wins” his first fight when he rushes the guy out of desperation and he knocks him out on a water fountain. The second fight he is saved by Harvey’s lackeys and no body wins. The third fight was pretty good. It was with an Asian dude who did like some crazy karate stuff. And the big epic finally was a whole lot of pushing and shoving. So really there is only one fight worth looking at in the whole thing. But if you go just to see that 2 minutes you will be forced to sit through the other 103.

The only good character in the whole movie is Zulay’s grandmother. She’s hilarious but alas she is only in the movie for like 10 minutes.

Don’t waste your time with this movie. It is a complete waste of time. It is boring, lame, and it seems like it goes on forever. Just don’t. The pics below are the best thing to come out of the movie.

 

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