Never back down

Jake is the new guy at some Orlando public school. Since his dad died in a car accident, he's been moody, aggressive, and arrest-prone. He was kicked-out of is previous school because he ran into fights too often and when he started a fight during a football game, he had used up all of his credits and had to leave school. This ‘football fight’ of Jake was video taped and put on the internet.

At the Orlando public school fighting was very popular and whoever was the best fighter, was the most popular. When someone came across Jake’s fighting video, he became popular all of the sudden and he got invited to a party by one of the ‘hotties’ of the school named Baja.

The party is at somebody's mansion. At the beginning everything is great but then Ryan introduces himself. He runs the school combat club, and because Ryan saw Jake’s fighting clip, he wanted to fight with him. When Jake refuses to fight, Ryan starts to provoke him by insulting Jake his father. Jake bites and the fight starts. Ryan happens to be a trained fighter whereas Jake has never had any fighting lessons or whatsoever. Jake gets his ass kicked big time and goes home all embarrassed and angry. Not only because he lost the fight, but also because Baja, who turns out to be Ryans girls, persuaded him to go to the party.

The next hour and a half is spent getting Jake in shape for the Beatdown, the movie's ‘end’ fight where Jake gets another chance to fight Ryan. Jake gets trained by Jean Rogua, who is a martial arts phenomenon in the movie. Besides training, Baja breaks up with Ryan and hooks up with Jake. This pisses Ryan off even more and thus makes the Beatdown fight even more interesting. Off course at the end and after almost passing out, Jake wins the fight with Ryan at the Beatdown.

In my opinion, this movie isn’t that good. Although the fights are spectacular, the story itself is rubbish. Everything is predictable and after the party where Jake gets his ass kicked you already know what will happen in the rest of the movie. Nevertheless, I think it is a fun movie to watch with some friends on a late Saturday night so you don’t have to think too much.