Never Surrender (2009)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Film Perfection

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

NEVER SURRENDERThere really is not a lot positive I can say about this movie. It was terrible.The story was bad, the acting was worst and the fighting scenes were comical.It was about a champion MMA fighter who sees a girl in a club that he likes. She introduces him to a bloke who runs an illegal cage fighting tournament. This tournament is dangerous and people can get seriously injured or even die. The movie then becomes a revenge movie as the owner of this company kills one of his friends in a fight and beats up his girlfriend and a few other women.I have not seen acting this bad for a long time. Not one person in the film was convincing as their character. All completely square and boring. Although there is one guy in the film that has a really fake accent... it is funny. He made me laugh a few times in the movie.The fighting scenes were worst than watching professional wrestling. WWE is more realistic. hahaWhat makes me laugh is on the front cover of the DVD, the biggest pictures is of Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson... he is int he movie for about 2 minutes... he has one bad street fight scene and that's him done for the whole movie. I am surprised anyone hired him after this.There is nothing but bad acting, bad fighting and sex through the whole film!I will give this 3 out of 10.The tag line on the poster says:"THE WORLD'S TOP MMA FIGHTERS IN THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILM"...it should say on the end of that... AND THEIR LAST!For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=tn_tnmn

Diego Carter (Echavarria) is a world-famous MMA fighter who is enticed by a mannish woman named Sandra (Koys) to join an underground Punchfighting circuit. It is run by the ruthless Seifer (Kilpatrick) - ruthless in the sense that what he's really running is a prostitution ring. He calls them "consorts", and if you win a match, you get a consort, or your opponent's consort, or something like that. It's all just a tawdry excuse to have Skinemax-style softcore porn scenes with plenty of unwanted, un-asked for Hector Echavarria nudity. Ew. All this nonsense leads up to "The Tournament", presumably the ultimate battle for the ultimate consort. Also, Carter falls in love with Sandra. What's REALLY going on? This movie is like a 90-minute training video for Hector Echavarria. Somehow he was allowed to direct this thing, and it has all the inept editing and strange cuts you might expect. You never see blows connect because there's an unnecessary cut right before the blow lands.Undue emphasis is put on the fact that he uses the late night-advertised product the Perfect Pushup in his training rituals. Echavarria invited all his fighter buddies to be in the movie, whether they belong there or not, and they even go by some of their real names.In the beginning of the film, two burly men in shorts are grappling, grunting and sweating while a song with the lyrics "45 minutes of Loooove" plays. Then they grab each other's legs for the takedown. Wags who would decry these movies as homoerotic...may have a point here.Also it should be noted that Diego's "...punches carry the dream of a small child who grew up off the coast of La Plata." Naturally, The Tournament has "no rules and no referees", and Seifer notes, "is tax free". Is this a comment on today's political landscape? I know I go to modern-day Punchfighters for top-shelf punditry.Patrick Kilpatrick looks like Howie Mandel now, and screams and yells just like Nick Mancuso in Death Warrior. However, this movie makes Death Warrior look like a masterpiece. James Russo is barely in it, which was a disappointment.On the bright side, Crusher's involved.Overall, this movie is beyond dumb. Its structure resembles a brainless video game, but with more grunting.for more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

There is nothing good about this movie. I've seen better plots and characters with more depth in "blue book" movies. (Actually, the best acting was done by Heath Herring, much like Hector's last movie where the best actor was Flava Flav) I can't even begin to explain how poorly the scenes were constructed. The "George" character gets into a 3 minute fist fight to talk to his friend out of engaging in illegal fist fights only to give up on trying to talk him out of it in 30 seconds. Oh, this "George" character, gets much screen time up to this scene and is then never seen or referred to in the rest of the movie. Come to think of it, we never even find out who this guy is or what his relationship is to any other character, and he's on the one-sheet.Script and acting aside, the directing is so poor it makes Ed Wood look brilliant. The fight sequences are shoddy and confusing, the gratuitous sex scenes are UN-erotic, and his grasp on pacing and scene transitions is non-existent.And more note: It has the best out-loud laugh I've had in a long time. Heath Herring is killed in an illegal cage fight, the next scene...THE VERY NEXT SCENE!!! The main character has a "Flash back" to the murder. How in the hell do you flash back to the last scene!?!

Hector Echavarria please for the love of the movie going public never make a movie ever again! You make everyone sound like a Mexican, GSP's voice might be the funniest thing ever! Also, if you watch late night HBO porn, this movie actually has worse actors! BJ Penn and Rampage have a sweet 1 minute cameo, and I actually gave up on the movie before I ever saw Anderon Slyva. This movie consists of round house kicks, sex, huge haymakers, sex, jumping back fists, sex, terrible lead acting, sex and Hector Echavarria attempts to be an MMA god and fails miserbly. So, in closing, Hector Echavarria please attempt another career because movie making is not in your future. I heard Billy Mays job is open, you might have a good shot at that!