Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

balrokeiser I remember when this movie was announced, I couldn't have been more excited. I was in the height of my UFC-loving phase. The trailer featured Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Georges St. Pierre, BJ. Penn and Anderson 'The Spider' Silva. I didn't care that this was a straight-to-DVD movie. I wanted to see my favourite UFC stars act. I didn't really get that. What I got for my £14 ($22, €17) was a 90 minute ego stroke for Hector Echavarria (who also co-wrote and directed this movie, no surprises there).This movie follows the journey of the generically named Diego Carter, a world renowned mixed martial arts fighter, played by Hector Echavarria. It presents him as having it all. He was the best pound-for-pound heavyweight fighter in the world, he had any woman he wanted, money and close, loyal friends who were willing to appear out of nowhere just in time to help him fight goons. But what is the one weakness of someone who has everything they ever wanted? A tall blonde woman with broken English and a crooked eye! How does our hero Diego meet this goddess of a woman? Well, he's at a club kissing and groping another hapless woman when across the dance floor he sees the siren known as Sandra. He tells the woman he's currently with that he will be right back, then in plain sight of said woman, marches over to Sandra and begins flirting with her. Classy. Sandra, knowing that Diego is such a huge MMA star, leads him to an underground fighting club known as Blood Lust, a corrupt business ran by hilarious villain and slight jab at Dana White, Seifer. Who not only runs an illegal fight club, also has his hand in a prostitution ring, roping women into working for him with the hope of one day being set 'free' by Seifer. Basically, every fighter who brawls at Blood Lust is allotted a prostitute or 'Escort' as they are known. If you win your fight at Blood Lust, you get to sleep with your opponents Escort. If you lose, you lose 'everything', whatever that means. Obviously, Diego can't just accept one of the dozens of prostitutes, no, he has to want the most beautiful of them all in Sandra, who in turn is Seifer's main squeeze. Seifer begrudgingly agrees to allow Sandra to be Diego's escort and that is the base for the rest of the movie. What comes next is about 60 minutes of fighting, followed by a sex scene, followed by very awkward dialogues, followed by more fighting, rinse and repeat and you'll have this movie in a nutshell. This movie is hilariously bad and I can't help but think that Hector Echavarria, when writing this, just wanted to act out as many of his fantasies as possible. I didn't mention the cameos by the MMA fighters featured on the posters and front cover of the DVD because all in all, Anderson Silva, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, BJ Penn, Heath Herring and Georges St. Pierre probably feature for maybe 10 minutes of air time. This is the definition of a shameless cash in on big names and I was suckered in hook, line and sinker. Avoid this movie and if you want to see a movie like this done write, I would highly recommend 'Warrior' starring Tom Hardy.

alchemistk91 This movie makes me want to cherish movies like Kickboxer and Never Back Down, which are at least 1000 times better than this movie was ever hoping to be.The fights were unrealistic and robot-like, the acting was TERRIBLE and there were simply WAY too many sex scenes to not be called a porno. I truly believe the star/writer/producer/director of this was simply on a power trip and wanted to get with as many girls as possible as well as beat people up with stupidly unrealistic moves.I am a huge MMA fan and the only reason I watched this was for the cameos of the UFC fighters. Sadly, the script was so amazingly terrible that it just lowered my view on the personality of some of my favourite fighters. I kind of want to beat the fight choreographer for this movie up. Plus the fighters were only in the movie for a total of about 3 to 4 minutes other than Heath Herring.Hector Echavarria should not be allowed to make movies. I could have easily written and directed a much, much, much better movie, even with the same old cliché'd storyline. Hell, a 4 year old could have probably done a better job. This 'movie' gives MMA and its fighters a bad name.The only reason I watched this movie to the end was because I could not believe that it was as bad as it was and I thought the finale would have better fights with more of the UFC fighters, sadly all it was was BJ Penn going half speed on some guy and not showing ANY of his skills and talent.This kind inspires me to go out and show Hector how to really make a movie, because I KNOW I can do a better job than that! Although sadly, I'm still 18 and in university so all you guys are gonna have to wait till a company takes me seriously, lol :)

smokecombs I couldn't really believe how terrible this movie was. T and A couldn't even save this (well, maybe if it had been better looking T and A). Basically this is a poor movie in all categories and is basically, as many reviewers have claimed, a softcore porn movie like you see on Cinemax or Showtime late at night.Don't get me wrong, I love MMA. I have interviewed Quinton Jackson and I love B.J. Penn, G.S.P., Anderson Silva and Heath Herring and I'm loving that they got a chance to make some money without taking the bumps and bruises they normally get in the ring. However the acting was probably the worst of any movie I've ever seen. G.S.P. and all the guys could probably get a little better, and I actually thought that Heath Herring was the freakin star of the entire movie in terms of acting ability. The main character, who I guess is supposed to be the experienced actor is the worst I believe I've ever seen. I literally almost turned the movie off and I'll watch almost any martial arts movie to the end. As for breaking down the areas of the movie. There was hardly any training sequences, mainly in between fights it was just a bunch of sex scenes (usually sex is historically a big no-no before fights). So I would give this a 0 in terms of training. I like my martial arts movies to show some training techniques and the more of them they are, the more aspects of training they show, and the realism of the training the better he movie. This one had none of that. As for the actual action, it was pretty terrible there as well. I will rate it a 4, simply because of my true life MMA guys. They didn't get to show off enough of their skill, nor where they even given some roles where they could maybe use some Hollywood effects to supe them up a little bit. But just being generous I'm giving it a 4 in terms of overall fight scenes and action, the fighting was fairly realistic.The acting was truly the low point of a movie that I really can't find many high points. I don't usually, or ever worry about the acting in these type of movies as long as the action is kick a** and the fighting is either very realistic, or a good back and forth between the main hero and villain, or something innovative in terms of the fight choreography. This movie had none of that, as well as even worse acting than even the lowest of this genre. Since martial arts movies aren't known for Robert Deniro type performances and saying that this movie is the worst I've seen thus far that would put my acting rating in the negatives. The lead character is terrible, the lead villain is OK and I'm a fan of his and always have been. He far outshines anyone else in the movie and I was actually hoping he would beat the crap out of the main good guy (I hope he did accidentally belt him in a few of the takes). And the supporting acting of MMA fighter, Heath Herring was pretty decent too, especially considering as many hard tough fights that Heath has had in real life. He seems really sharp still, no signs of any damage from all his fights and he seems to have a natural talent for acting if he wanted to do that. Still, when your lead character is so bad the movie is gonna be bad. For it's genre I would rate the acting of this movie as a 3 (only because of Herring and lead villain Patrick Kilpatrick). I would rate it a 1 or a 0 if not for those 2 guys. In terms of overall genres of movies, this movie gets a 0.Action 4Acting in Martial Arts Genre 3Acting Overall Genres 0 Story Martial Arts Genre 1 Story overall Genres 0 (I should give it negatives)In closing, if you're a die-hard martial arts/kung fun movie fan, you may still regret watching this. If you are martial arts movie fan, plus huge MMA fan and really like George St Pierre, BJ Penn, Quinton Jackson, Heath Herring, or Anderson Silva then you might want to give this a watch just to see those guys. I would steer clear of this unless there is totally nothing else on. I also wouldn't buy this movie unless it is found at a yard sale or something for under a dollar. I don't really know if it's worth a rental, unless you are really curious and can find it at a Redbox.

aashley-6 I was pleasantly surprised by this film as its something you can enjoy even if you're not that into UFC. Having said that it is ESSENTIAL for fans of UFC with appearances from Rampage, GSP and BJ Penn. Films starring sports figures have generally been hit and miss (Space Jam anybody?) but Never Surrender is definitely a hit. Rampage is particularly convincing and shows signs of what might be a looming crossover into Hollywood (The Rock anybody?)This movie doesn't require many brain cells and that's the joy of it - you won't get lost following the story and it never descends into anything even slightly mundane.Hector Echavarria does a great job as Diego Carter, a world champion who risks his life and his reputation in the illegal underworld or MMA. It's got women, weapons and wheels - so is satisfying on all fronts.The only disappointment is that it ends after 90 mins. I could have watched about 3 hours of it.Its out on DVD in the UK on 22nd June for all British fans of this fine sport... and for girls who want 90 mins of peace and quiet while their boyfriends sit glued to the screen.