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Fighting
Small-town boy Shawn (Channing Tatum) has come to New York City with nothing. While barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, he meets seasoned scam artist Harvey (Terrence Howard) who sees in him a natural talent for street-fighting. Harvey becomes his manager on the bare-knuckled brawling circuit.
Starring Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao, Michael Rivera, Brian White, Luis Guzman
Directed by Dito Montiel ('A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints')
Written by Robert Munic, Dito Montiel
Drama, Action | 1hr 45mins | Rated (M) | contains violence | Origin: USA | Official Site »
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
I like the way the personalities are allowed to upstage the plot in Fighting, a routine three-act fight story that creates uncommonly interesting characters.
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Empire (UK)
2
By the book boxing fair, but with extreme dirty fighting. Cliches abound.
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Hollywood Reporter
In Channing Tatum, who also starred in "Saints," the film has a good-looking, magnetic hunk to draw a crowd. Terrence Howard lends the pedigree of great screen acting, and Zulay Henao adds charm and glamour.
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Los Angeles Times
It's not "Raging Bull" or "Fight Club," but Fighting is populated by believable losers and lovingly adorned with just the right faces and peeling wallpaper to absorb you in Montiel's world.
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New York Times
Not everything that happens in Fighting entirely makes sense -- it’s a fable, after all, and a fable doesn't necessarily have to -- but it breathes with a rough, exuberant realism that you rarely see in movies of its kind.
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Total Film (UK)
3
Despite its dog-eared underpinnings, Fighting delivers some heady testoster-tainment. But it’s Channing Tatum who gives it a bruising grace. If you’re wondering why he’s being tipped as the next big thing, this punchy encounter will answer the question. Feel the pain.
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TV3 (Daniel Rutledge)
Channing Tatum... mumbles through the film with no charisma at all. That’s kind of appropriate seeing as he’s playing a bare-knuckle prize fighter meathead.
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Variety (USA)
For all the utter phoniness of Fighting -- the cockeyed, faux-verite shooting, the lurches in storytelling, the lack of character development, a contrived crisis between Shawn and his would-be girlfriend Zulay and Tatum's dopey-charming thing--Fighting's not so bad.
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