Good Movie ; Unfair ratings.

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2008)

First off, I feel this movie has very little resemblance with Karate kid if any at all. I Never Back Down a lot more entertaining. The Performances of Sean Faris and Djimon Hounsou were amazing, Oscar winning acting in my opinion. They really took the movie to a whole other level with them in it.
The main primary problem this movie is for most audiences is that not all people can relate to it. The movie is primarily targeted to teenage men and younger crowded audiences, and as you can see by the voting, younger crowds find this movie a lot more entertaining than older crowds.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023111/ratings Why? Misunderstandings. A lot of older people feel this movie is just a simple "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" in the cafeteria back from their old school days. It's not.
Think of it instead of MMA, it's football, basketball, or baseball. Any other sport. Suddenly a lot more appealing if instead of two kids fighting and ones looking for revenge that it's two teams and ones looking to get back at another, huh? What a lot of the older crowd doesn't understand is that Mixed Martial arts is a SPORT, and they feel it's a immature teen movie with teen drama. Not necessarily. I'm 17, I play football, wrestle and do ju-jitsu. I live in new york and in my school, theirs a small, but noticeable fan base to UFC. However, in Florida (I know this because i visit and plan on going to college there), Mixed martial arts is significantly bigger, and it's not hard to believe that instead of after school basketball games, or pick up football games at the park, that their might be instead a Mixed Martial Arts fight at someones in-house gym. That's what a lot of the older crowd doesn't get, that fighting isn't just a hate and bloodthirsty form of causing someone else harm, but can actually be a friendly but brutal competition, just like any other sport.
When you leave this movie, I can guarantee you tons of teens will be joking around and messing around and reenacting moves like little children. (I promise you, I didn't, but a lot of my friends did) Why? A movie like this gives you a adrenaline rush. The angles of the fights and how well executed the fighting and editing is done is mouth dropping. This is a movie you will occasionally hear cheers during.
Overall, it's a very good movie that is likely to be misunderstood by older crowds but either way it will be groundbreaking for future MMA movies and MMA markets including UFC, Pride and Elite XC.
Just remember when you see it, the fighting in this movie is a sport, not a immature war.