Fighting to be entertaining

"Fighting" is aptly named. I was fighting to stay awake, fighting to stay interested and fighting the urge to walk out of the theater. But as your humble reviewer, I stayed and took one for the team.

Channing Tatum (Step up and Step up 2: The Streets) plays Shawn MacArthur, a down on his luck guy trying to hustle the streets of New York selling whatever he can get his hands on. Terrance Howard (Crash, Ironman) plays Harvey Boarden, a luckless, experienced street hustler who interduces Shawn to the world of underground street fighting.

This is not a new concept. And since it is unoriginal, Rogue Pictures did not seem to feel the need to make it interesting. From the trailer you would think that this is a bad movie that at least has some good action, however, even the action sucked. MacArthur seems more lucky than skilled as a fighter. The storyline is pedestrian and predictable and the acting was subpar.

*Reproduced with permission from The Triton Review