Cagefighter

Maybe cinematography is not the best. But it is as good as should be in MMA movie. The characters are believable. The fights are good too. I felt the struggle. A decent movie that is worth a watch.

This movie was just laughably bad. The only thing less realistic are the reviews giving it 10 stars. In fact, the three stars I gave it were generous. It is boring. It is a poor man's Rocky. The acting of Chuck and Luke was better than everybody but Gina. Well, actually Moxley played a good pro wrestler. Go figure. Absolutely nothing original.

I had never heard of this movie before. Only found about it a couple days ago, wich is 5 years after release. Jon Moxley (FKA Dean Ambrose) did an MMA movie? I had to watch that.

Now the funniest part is that he would be a lot more credible in this super badass vilain of pro wrestling role with his current look in the Deathriders. He got a lot more ripped. They keep saying how powerful he is in the movie and so on, but thats really 2020 Mox that is not that "impressive looking". But whatever...

So the movie follow a very conventional structure. Basically you saw this movie before only with different characters. But i don't think it was meant to be original. Sure adding some wrestlers and the idea of a wrestling champ challenging an MMA champ is the "little bit of originality" in it, but that do not play a huge part. The rest of the movie follow the same structure you seen a million time. But that does not mean it can't be entertaining.

Yes the fights are completely unrealistic and the referee would had end them 5x times before the actual end, but hey its a movie, and if you enjoyed Rocky receiving 120 punch to the face per movie, you can suspend your disbelief here too.

Speaking of 5 times, its a recurring thing in the movie that the MMA champ is a 5 times champion, but its actually that he defended the belt 5 times. It was kinda confusing at first and i tought it was an error in translation but reading other reviews it seem not, its like that in the original english version too.

The version i watched was in french and outside the main character and Gina Gershon wich were ok, most of the dubbing was awful, especially Mox and Christian Cage.

Overall it was a modest little fight movie that i had no idea existed and it gave me 90 minutes of alright fun with a couple beers. Nothing to write home about but decent enough.

One last thing... Its a little weird tough that they use AEW footage, some wrestlers play themselves, but then you have Jon Moxley (with litterally his trademark at the time Mox jacket) but he is call Randy Stone here? I guess they wanted to save on cost so it was easy to use old footage. But i do think they should had gave the wrestlers characters names.

The movie follows the path of the usual underdog story. The green screen effects seem very off often. The movie does not not make any new innovations in "the underdog plot" causing it to become very stale and predictable. The only person in this movie who is entertaining is Jonathan Good who acts with a lot of conviction. The fight scenes however are also a big plus as they are very well choreographed. Overall, an inoffensive film with a pro-wrestler as it's best actor (no wonder).

I guess this movie might be OK to watch if you're friends with any of the actors and you watch it as a "Fun thing" whilst getting hammered on beer and weed.

It was truly a rather boring and predictable movie, and the animations used in the fight scenes were just straight awful, like wtf.

Thank you for reading this banger of a review.