Better Than Expected, Yet Still No Masterpiece

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2008)

This movie was better than i thought it was going to be. The lines were a little bit cheesy and all but it did work. The cheesy lines kinda made the movie good and made it seem like a high school movie, like it was supposed to. The only thing in this film that bothered me was the main "villain." Cam Gigandet, who played Ryan McCarthy in the movie might as well have been called Tyler Durden, (Brad Pitt) from fight club. They made the two look exactly the same and there characters were almost the same except for the fact that Brad Pitt is a better actor than Cam is. Overall this was a very entertaining film and i would recommend watching it at least once to see if it is the type of movie that you like.
Another thing that i did like about this movie was the technique that was used in it. I am a huge mixed martial arts fan and i thought that this movie would be a lot of stupid one punch knockouts with no technique used, however i did like the use of technique. This movie definitely went to show that with training and technique you can definitely be great at what you want to be. Good moral value movie. Shows many ways to release anger and stress and overcome problems and situations.