Fighting

Starring Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard, Dito Montiel's tale of an underground fighting scene is vivid and loaded with detail

It's called "Fighting," and its unpolished, messy fracases are among the film's highlights. But there's much more to it than that: more than the easily sold idea of Channing Tatum as Shawn, a down-on-his-luck drifter, drawn by two-bit hustler Harvey (Terrence Howard) into New York's underground fighting scene; more than Shawn's romance with struggling single mother Zulay (Zulay Henao). The word that best expresses the film is "vivid."
It feels like a guided tour of the city's in-your-face underbelly, loaded with detail that only a native with an artist's eye could reveal. [...]

di Michael Ordoña, articolo completo (2033 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 24 aprile 2009