Wednesday, a new MMA cine accustomed on the amphitheatre in the anatomy of “Bruised.”
Directed by and starring Oscar champ Halle Berry, “Bruised” is the adventure of above UFC fighter Jackie Justice, who had a breakdown during a activity and larboard the MMA apple behind. With activity appearing to get the bigger of her, Jackie finds herself in position to booty a big activity – against the “Lady Killer” played by UFC best Valentina Shevchenko – and about-face things around.
We’ve formed this account out before, but with a high-profile blur like “Bruised” now accessible on Netflix, it seems like as acceptable a time as any to activity it up again.
Let’s booty a look, then, at the best (but mostly worst) MMA movies around.
(And if we larboard some off the list, don’t be offended. For the record, if a cine was absolutely karate or kickboxing or boxing, etc., we larboard it off – we’re attractive for analytic modern-era alloyed aggressive arts cagefighting affectionate of actuality to accomplish the cut for this list. Sorry, old Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme flicks. We’ll save you for a altered list.)
Stars: Tony Schiena, Dave Fennoy, Vinnie Jones, Bai LingMMA cameos: Kimbo Slice, Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, Cheick KongoCheesy tagline: He rules the streets from the central …Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 4How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “Sequel with abecedarian acting, anemic story, lots of MMA violence.” – Brian Costello, Common Sense MediaSynopsis: A acceptable cop is set up afterwards a adulterated analysis and active to prison. There, he’s affected into the apple of underground prisoners MMA. A confined ex-MMA champ is activity to advice him get apology and bright his name – but first, naturally, he has to get out of his fights with his life. Seriously. The accomplished association at TapouT helped accompany this bit of abominable to the world. Thankfully, it was a straight-to-video situation. Aloof booty a attending at that Rotten Tomatoes admirers score. Do you apperceive how adamantine it is to get a 4 percent? And that’s from about 900 ratings, which is a added than abounding sample size.
Stars: Dean Cain, Tony Schiena, Bai LingMMA cameos: Kimbo Slice, Roger Huerta, Heath Herring, Frank Mir, Miguel TorresCheesy tagline: Affliction is temporary. Pride lasts forever.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 15How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoSynopsis: Dalton was one of the best fighters in the apple aback he absolved abroad afterwards a tragedy in the cage. He’s never activity to appear back. But afresh a bedraggled apostle realizes he’s got a activity larboard on his accord and armament him aback adjoin the awful new superstar (Herring) who wants to breach his record. It should be acclaimed that there’s a chargeless sex amphitheatre on a gym attic amid Bai Ling (how does she wind up in about all these movies?!) and Herring, in case you’re into that affectionate of thing.
Stars: Gary Daniels, Peter WellerCheesy tagline: Win … or die fighting.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 21How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video (free to watch for Prime members)Synopsis: A above underground angry fable aloof wants to lay low and alpha a ancestors – live the acceptable activity abroad from all the punching. But aback his brother runs afield of a nasty-ass mobster, Shane has to pay off bro-bro’s debts by angry – and assumption what? Anniversary activity gets tougher and added barbarous than the one afore it, and – gasp! – he ability not accomplish it out alive! Essentially, these guys took the “Gone in 60 Seconds” artifice and activated it to angry – not that the “Gone in 60 Seconds” artifice was wholly original, to activate with.
Stars: Hector Echavarria, Patrick KilpatrickMMA cameos: Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, B.J. Penn, Heath HerringCheesy tagline: One arena. No rules. All pain.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 17How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoSynopsis: The bar got set for how abounding big-name fighters could get in one movie. And afresh there was Heath Herring, who didn’t absolutely anytime acceleration to the aforementioned name amount as the four colleagues on the bill with him. But hey, acceptable for him. Stop us if you’ve heard this artifice before: A above brilliant fighter gets fatigued into the underground MMA amphitheatre by a bedraggled promoter, afresh realizes instead of angry for money or honor, he’s absolutely activity for his life. The best affair about this cine is its appellation aback it conjures up memories of the 1985 Corey Hart distinct “Never Surrender” (no relation, thankfully).
Stars: Susie Celek, Miesha TateMMA cameos: Holly Holm, Cris Cyborg, Katlyn ChookagianCheesy tagline: One way in. No way out.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 24How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video (free for Prime members)Key review: “Disappointing artifice twists appear in a acute affray fatigued for snappier choreography and editing.” – Andy Webster, New York TimesSynopsis: Afterwards women’s MMA assuredly started accepting the acclaim it continued deserved, it wasn’t continued afore addition came forth and approved to capitalize on it with a movie. Afterwards her sister is dead in the underground angry amphitheatre (we know, we apperceive …), Windsor starts training and has to avenge her afterlife and acquisition her killer. Jabs (Tate) comes on lath to alternation her and advice her on her path. Somehow, this spawned a yet-to-be-released sequel.
Stars: Wes Chatham, Devon Sawa, Michael Jai WhiteMMA cameo: Rich ClementiCheesy tagline: His abandoned way out is accepting aback in.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 36How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video (free for Prime members)Key review: “Formulaic, anatomic guys’-night-in entertainment.” – Dennis Harvey, VarietySynopsis: Dillon was an NCAA champ in wrestling. But in Louisiana, he has to do a dime in bastille for the annihilation of a cop – which he didn’t commit. Already he’s paroled, assumption what? He has to pay off his BFF’s coffer debts by accordant to fight. He’s so acceptable that it ruffles the accoutrement of his bedraggled acquittal officer, his adherent and the activity bookers – and he has to adjudge whether or not he’s accommodating to bandy a activity to get out of the affair with anybody animate and well.
Stars: Evan Peters, Dean Geyer, Michael Jai White, Alex Meraz, Scott EpsteinMMA cameos: Todd Duffee, Lyoto Machida, John McCarthy, Eddie BravoRotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 51How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “Sequel with abecedarian acting, anemic story, lots of MMA violence.” – Brian Costello, Common Sense MediaSynopsis: Michael Jai White is such a accoutrement in straight-to-video MMA-type movies, that of advance he had to absolute one. A afflicted kid gets booted from the academy angry aggregation for brawling, and afresh artlessly decides he bigger alpha training MMA. Three others are in the aforementioned accepted wheelhouse as him, and they’re all activity to access the aforementioned “Beatdown” tournament. Aback one goes rogue and frames their coach, Mike has to get revenge. If you appetite to see a cine that appearance Duffee clumsy to attempt because he got blindsided and jumped by the bad guy in the bath afore his fight, this is the one for you.
Stars: Michael Jai White, Josh Barnett, Gillian White, Esai MoralesMMA cameos: Stephen Quadros, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Michael SchiavelloCheesy tagline: The Ultimate ShowdownRotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 55How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “The actuality that White is a absolute amalgamation of on-screen charisma, absurd aggressive arts talent, and a competent and able administrator and biographer accomplish him an basal attendance in the avant-garde activity cine landscape.” – Ed Travis, CinapseSynopsis: Michael Jai White went aback to the “Never Aback Down” able-bodied already added for this one with Barnett as his costar. Ex-MMA stud Case Walker (White) goes to Thailand with Brody James (Barnett) to advice him train. Things go a little acerb aback Case discovers Brody has been assertive to use steroids (we can’t accomplish this up). Afresh Brody gets hurt, and Case is activity to accept to activity in his abode to not abandoned win, but get animus adjoin the bedraggled apostle and accumulate his new girlfriend, a above PR abuse for the promotion.
Stars: Cody Hackman, Krzysztof SoszynskiMMA cameos: Anderson Silva, Lyoto MachidaCheesy tagline: He absent aggregate … except the will to fight.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 42How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video (free for Prime members)Synopsis: A jailbait sees his parents murdered in advanced of him. What follows is his archetypal cruise bottomward the amiss aisle to agitation and association service. Afresh he apprehension up at a karate school, meets a babe who shows him … delay for it … delay for it … an underground MMA ambit … and there, he realizes the big champ (Soszynski) is the man who dead his parents. Naturally, he needs to become an MMA superstar (with the advice of Silva and Machida), access the clash – and exhausted the allowance to get apology in a no-weight-class free-for-all.
Stars: Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker, Julian SandsMMA cameos: Kimbo Slice, Bob Sapp, Gina Carano, Maurice SmithCheesy taglines: In a apple afterwards rules, he makes his own. | It’s time to address up.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 71How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “Michael Jai White makes a acceptable case actuality that he deserves approaching application as an activity brilliant on the adjustment of a Vin Diesel or a Sylvester Stallone.” – Kam Williams, NewsBlazeSynopsis: Bone gets out of bastille and moves to L.A., and he bound finds … you’re not gonna accept this one … an underground angry circuit. Naturally, he gets complex and becomes the abutting big thing. But all the while, he’s additionally got a account to achieve with the mob bang-up who runs the thing, decidedly for the way he treats and has advised his girlfriend. Things get a little awe-inspiring in this one, accurate in the end credits.
Stars: Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura VandervoortCheesy taglines: Activity adamantine to survive. | Accompany the pain.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: N/ARotten Tomatoes admirers score: 44How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoSynopsis: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin goes to bastille for killing a guy in cocky defense. Aback he gets out and tries to go straight, the added of his victim hits him up to let him apperceive she helped get him paroled – and that he should bottom the bill for the super-expensive affection operation her babe needs. Goggins, who was attractive for a gig afterwards six years on “The Shield,” plays a apostle in the … yeah … uhhhh … the underground angry circuit, which is a absolutely beginning concept. Naturally, Austin has to win his fights to accomplish coffer so he can save the little girl’s life.
Stars: Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Djimon HounsouCheesy tagline: Win or lose … anybody has their fight.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 23Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 34How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “I laughed so abundant at the account of cliches that I assuredly had to accept I was entertained from alpha to accomplishment by this abominable knock-off.” – Richard Roeper, “Ebert & Roeper”Synopsis: An already afflicted jailbait finds himself accepting added problems aback he moves to a new aerial school. His quick atmosphere catches some eyes. And soon, he’s led to the apple of underground angry – can you accept it?! – and there, he realizes he can accomplish his mark. Naturally, he’s got to exhausted the angry superstar so he can win the babe and avenge a collapsed acquaintance – all while accomplished by Hounsou. The final activity doesn’t appear in a cage, though. It’s in the parking lot outside. Because of advance it is.
Stars: Channing Tatum, Terrance Howard, Brian J. White, Luis GuzmanMMA cameo: Cung LeCheesy tagline: Some dreams are account the fight.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 40Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 36How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “You couldn’t alarm ‘Fighting’ abundant – at its amount it is artlessly too abominable – but (director Dito) Montiel has managed to inject it with the aroma and feel of the streets that he acutely already knew well.” – Andrew Pulver, The GuardianSynopsis: Aback Tatum still was on the bend of acceptable a all-around superstar, beginning off the “Step Up” and “Step Up 2: The Streets” ball flicks, he did this sometimes aching cine about … yep … an underground angry situation. He plays a aerial who hustles the amiss guy, and afresh has to activity his way out of it. In the end, he gets the babe and a agglomeration of banknote by accomplishing what he does best – hustling.
Stars: Frank Grillo, Jonathan Tucker, Matt Lauria, Nick Jonas, Joanna GoingMMA cameos: Joe Stevenson, Kenny Florian, Frank Trigg, Matt Hughes, Jenn Brown, Greg Jackson, Heidi Androl, Heather Jo Clark, Cub Swanson, Pearl Gonzalez, Justine Kish, Jay HieronRotten Tomatoes critics score: 80 (Season 1)Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 96How to watch it: Admirers Network (Directv) on demandKey review: “‘Kingdom’ isn’t the abutting abundant television appearance about sports. It’s aloof a absolutely abundant television show.” – Samantha Highfill, Ball WeeklySynopsis: OK, this is a TV alternation – so we’re affectionate of cheating here. But it seems arbitrary to accept all these absolutely bad movies on this account and not acknowledgment article that absolutely was very, actual good. It’s about a ancestors ball application the apple of MMA in Venice Beach, Calif., as its backdrop. Alvey runs a gym and will do aloof about annihilation to accomplish abiding his fighters and ancestors succeed. There are some standout performances from many, in accurate big MMA fan Tucker. Joe Stevenson and Greg Jackson served as creative/fight consultants over the show’s three-season run.
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen, Jennifer Grey, Joe MantegnaMMA cameos: Randy Couture, Enson Inoue, Frank Trigg, Mike Goldberg, Josh RaffertyCheesy tagline: There’s consistently a way out. You aloof accept to acquisition it.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 67Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 65How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “Ejiofor charcoal a chiefly assured, absorbing presence, admitting he has his assignment cut out here. He is alveolate adjoin a blur with a atramentous belt in affectedness and a gold badge in preening self-regard.” – Xan Brooks, The GuardianSynopsis: Aback a allegorical author like David Mamet decides to address and absolute a aggressive arts movie, it’s activity to get some attention. Afresh he went out and got a absolutely appropriate cast, too. A aggressive arts adviser played by Ejiofor has to adjudge whether or not to activity for money to awning some debts – something he’s adjoin to. Through circumstance, he gets alloyed up with some TV people, who abduct one of his account afterwards he consulted for them. And, of course, all anchorage advance to him accepting to activity afresh – just not officially – to get aback his account and some justice. Frankly, it’s not bad overall, let abandoned for an MMA-type movie.
Stars: Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek, Bas RuttenMMA cameos: Joe Rogan, Mark DellaGrotte, Krzysztof Soszynski, Bruce Buffer, Mike Goldberg, Herb Dean, “Stitch” Duran, Jason “Mayhem” Miller, Mark Munoz, Satoshi Ishii, Wanderlei Silva, Chael SonnenCheesy taglines: No one will activity for his acceptance like Mr. Voss. | One abecedary still believes in angry for his students.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 40Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 65How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “Here Comes the Boom telegraphs every bite in its arsenal, but aback the ball connects, it can bear with funny force.” – Scott Bowles, USA TODAYSynopsis: Should this be all the way up and No. 2? Maybe not. But we accept to accord backdrop to huge MMA fan Kevin James, who co-wrote it and stars in it. He absolutely has a affection for the sport, and this was his adulation letter to it. He plays a above academy wrestler-turned-teacher who, in adjustment to advice save the school’s bandage affairs led by Winkler, turns to fighting. Rutten plays his capital trainer on his way up the bounded ambit through wins over the brand of Sonnen and Miller, and DellaGrotte is there, as well. Rogan shows up to activity him a UFC activity adjoin Soszynski. The accomplished affair culminates rather ridiculously with a activity at MGM Grand Garden Amphitheatre in Las Vegas, and he saves the day and gets the babe (Hayek). There’s some appropriate low-brow ball in there, and Rutten absolutely holds his own as a comedic actor. Plus, can we aloof accord acknowledgment that it’s not a cine about an underground angry circuit?!
Stars: Halle Berry, Shamier Anderson, Adan Canto, Sheila Atim, Valentina ShevchenkoMMA cameos: Julie Kedzie, Yves Edwards, Keith PetersonRotten Tomatoes critics score: 56Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: TBDHow to watch it: NetflixKey review: “These adult warriors deserve a blur that matches their beat dust … that’s what Berry has delivered with ‘Bruised.’” – Joe Nolan, Nashville SceneSynopsis: If not for the blur in our No. 1 atom actuality the abandoned one on the account that is Certified Beginning at Rotten Tomatoes, Berry’s authoritative admission would accept appear out of the channel appropriate in the top position. It’s true, there are elements of “Bruised” that we’ve apparent afore in added MMA or battle movies, or aloof sports movies in general. But we haven’t absolutely apparent them through this accurate lens from a Atramentous woman administrator who additionally stars in it – and who additionally happened to alternation at ridiculously aerial levels to accomplish abiding her activity achievement came off as authentic. Berry, still the abandoned Atramentous woman in history to win the Best Actress accolade at the Oscars, took on affluence to get this cine fabricated the way she envisioned it. Her acting never will be alleged into question, and alike if some elements of the adventure accept their boldness questioned, they can adequately bound be forgiven acknowledgment Berry’s direction, which seems to appear about as artlessly to her as fighting.
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick NolteMMA cameos: Nate Marquardt, Anthony Johnson, Roan Carneiro, Josh RosenthalCheesy tagline: Ancestors is account angry for.Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 83Rotten Tomatoes admirers score: 92How to watch it: Rent or buy through iTunes/Apple TV, Amazon Prime VideoKey review: “The cine is so cautiously made, and the performances are so assuredly absolute (Hardy is sensational), that, as it alcove its cathartic, acceptable finish, it achieves a hasty benevolence and honesty.” – Bruce Diones, The New YorkerSynopsis: Our top aces is added than aloof a acceptable MMA movie. It’s a acceptable movie, period. Hardy and Nolte were talked about as Oscar contenders for their performances, and while they didn’t accomplish the cut, actuality in the altercation for an MMA cine seems like a big deal. An conflicting son allotment home to his alcoholic ancestor (Nolte), a above boxer, to accomplish amends. Nolte is aberrant and was nominated for an Oscar and Screen Actors Guild accolade for Best Supporting Actor. Aback Tommy (Hardy) hears about a $5 actor MMA tournament, he wants to enter. Problem is, his conflicting brother (Edgerton) is in it, too. Of course, their paths are set to accommodated in the final, and they’ll accept to appear to agreement with anniversary added at the aforementioned time.
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