Never Back Down (Single-Disc Edition)

Description

Jake Tyler has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his
family to support his younger brother’s shot at a professional tennis career.
Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he
is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an
attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja, Jake
goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named
Ryan McDonald. While he is defeated and humiliated in the fight, a classmate
introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed
Marshall Arts (MMA). He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his
mentor, Jean Roqua. It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street
fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master. Roqua will take Jake
under his wing, but it is up to Jake to find the patience, discipline,
willingness and reason within him to succeed. For Jake, there is much more at
stake than mere victory. If you get caught up in the sweaty fight
scenes in Never Back Down–and, despite the formulaic plot, you very likely
will–it will be due to the sheer kinetic pleasure of muscular bodies in
motion. Jake (Tom Cruise look-alike Sean Faris, Yours, Mine, and Ours), full
of anger after his father’s death, starts to find a place for himself at his
new Florida high school–until Ryan, the head of an underground mixed-martial
arts (Cam Gigandet, The O.C.), picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being
trounced by Ryan in front of everyone in school, Jake begins training under
the firm, moral guidance of a martial arts master with a hidden past (Djimon
Hounsou, a long way from Blood Diamond, but still bringing his essential
gravitas to the screen). Basically, Never Back Down boils down to a cross
between The Karate Kid and Fight Club, minus the sociopolitical commentary.
The story and characters are a bundle of featherweight cliches, but that won’t
stop the aggressively edited fight sequences from stoking a viewer’s
adrenaline. Also starring Amber Heard (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) as the
very blonde love interest, who (along with an abundance of girls in
bikinis–’cause, y’know, it’s Florida) is there to assure everyone that these
handsome, chiseled boys are strictly heterosexual. –Bret Fetzer

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Action
• Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Contributor: Sean Faris
• Language: English
• Runtime: 1 hour and 53 minutes
• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.40:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.57 x 5.43 x 7.49 inches; 2.72 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 6105147
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 53 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ July 29, 2008
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Sean Faris
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English