Its a Knockout !

Rating: 8/10 (3 June 2008)

This is an excellent drama/action picture.
First rate performances from all the cast, a good moral in the story exemplified from the film title, with engaging and appropriate music throughout.
A college student in a new city with a penchant for fighting gets involved in a fight cult so to speak and turns to a martial arts trainer to teach him and at the same time solve his and others problems as well.
The bully/'baddie' in the movie steals the show. A young Steve McQueen.
And the film-makers show due homage to the U-Tube/mobile phone generation; and a hilarious line in the film re using X-Box must be amongst the best of the worst for an attempted pick up.
Mind you the enthusiasm for violence in the play sends completely the wrong message as the injuries and damage which will result from the type of fights shown is never properly dramatized, indeed quite the reverse it is minimized and portrayed erroneously. But surely whoever sees the film can appreciate that? No one takes Tom and Jerry seriously, right?!
But anyhow this is good entertainment and all in all despite any criticism it deserves top marks:
I give it 7 and a half out of 10, rounded up.