Fighter (2007)

Boring

Absolutely the worst movie.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Makes the Karate Kid look like Romper Room.Not a martial art movie as such, more of a coming of age film, but the reason it caught attention is that the fighting scenes are actually better than you would find in films that actually ARE fight films! Great direction, great acting. Great use of background and motion. The central character has many scenes where she is running seemingly without direction or purpose, a metaphor for the twists and turns in her life.Does a great job of showing western viewers the "other" side of the coin, what is like to come from a culture that limits expression rather than encourages it.Very engaging. Highly recommended.

I watched this movie with no prior knowledge of it, and was immediately sucked into the film. It is a film that is beautiful to look at and has the ability to evoke emotions within the viewer causing them to live the story with the main character. The cinematography was absolutely wonderful, and served to make the film somehow realistic and surreal at the same time. The soundtrack was perfect and each song seemed to compliment the moments on screen, but was almost a character in and of itself. The acting was believable and realistic and the star of the movie "Aicha" really makes the audience connect with her and feel her plight, and the choreography of the fight scenes was wonderful. I was so pleasantly surprised by this movie and it is one that I will absolutely have to recommend to friends.

When you are in a gloomy or depressed mood, go watch this film. It shows a lot of beauty and joy in a very simple everyday setting, and it is very encouraging, in particular from a feminist and a humanist perspective.When you know both the Turkish language and either the Danish or the German language, go watch the film in any case. Half of the dialog is Danish in the original, synchronized to German in the translated version, the other half Turkish, subtitled in Danish or German, respectively. When i watched it in Mannheim, Germany, the reaction of the Turkish-speaking audience proved that there must be a lot of humor in the Turkish dialog, which, deplorably, mostly escaped me, being only imperfectly rendered in the subtitles. Still, the film is interesting even if you lack knowledge of the Turkish.Esthetically, the movie is playing a lot on the theme of speed and slowness. On first sight, there is lots of corporeal movement fast as lightning, making it a quick, an agitated film. In particular, even though this is a Kung Fu movie, watch out for the running scenes, beautifully expressing a wealth of emotions. But there are quite a few very slow, emotionally intense scenes, too. And above all, the characters develop at a much slower pace than you would expect in a drama about the coming of age; still, there is some movement in the characters to: Closely watch the villain Omar, whose part and acting i liked very much.The contrast of speed and stillness nicely contributes to the depiction of human rage and dignity - shown at once, in the same characters, at the same time.

The performances in this film were good as were the cinematography and fight choreography. Where this film fell down is that it is not original.The film "Girlfight" has almost the same plot: a young girl who has a nasty temper and gets into fights constantly, discovers boxing, much to the displeasure of her father. She learns to box and eventually beats her boyfriend, who is also a boxer.In this film, the girl is of Turkish descent living in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a Muslim from a conservative family. She learns some Kung Fu in her high school club, but she is too aggressive to stay and instead finds a true Kung Fu school with a real sifu (Master). She disobeys her father and almost ruins her brother's planned marriage while training and the school. She meets a blond non-Muslim boy at the school and is assigned as his training partner. You can guess what happens next, can't you? I'll leave the rest of the plot to you to discover to avoid spoilers.My real beef is that it's not innovative or original just the same story in a different place. I feel that there should have been a more interesting development to avoid the same old trite clichés.