Mind you, in the great calculator of movie plusses and minuses that adds up to IGN's star ratings, I'm not assigning this choice a value. After all, how many films about fighting have ever shown the constitution to suggest that the audience not do it? Even the Matrix films - which ostensibly are about the idea that Neo can literally transcend physical reality, therefore eliminating the need to fight back - resigned themselves to the fact that fans wanted to see Keanu get down and dirty. If the screenwriter, filmmakers and cast had the maturity to really follow this philosophical throughline, then Never Back Down might have become a remarkable, entertaining and even smart movie. After being humiliated at a party by Ryan, Jake solicits the training of local martial arts instructor Jean Rocha (Djimon Housou) in order to take revenge, in the process discovering that the key to victory is sometimes not fighting at all. ![]() ![]() In addition to earning him instant recognition among his schoolmates - including the fetching Baja Miller (Amber Heard) - this brings him to the attention of Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet), who currently hovers at the top of the high school food chain. Upon arriving, however, it appears that most of the school already knows who Jake is thanks to a YouTube clip of the fight that got him thrown out of school back home. Sean Faris ( Sleepover) plays Jake Tyler, a high school senior who moves with his mother and younger brother Charlie (Wyatt Tyler) to Orlando, Florida to escape his troubled past.
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