The action can hardly hope to make up for every other part of the experience that’s lacking.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

At least there's humor found in desperation and comic relief in the quagmire of hustling.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Yes, both Channing Tatum and Zulay Henao... have careers for their looks alone, and they'd have better careers delivering pizza than delivering dialogue.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 2, 2011

Call a movie Fighting, you expect action. Only include shots of Channing Tatum shirtless in the trailer, you expect to see half-naked Tatum. Fighting doesn't deliver either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 14, 2010

Channing Tatum (GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra) is crazy beautiful, and perfectly cast as a slow, troubled young man.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2010

the protagonist happens to be played by an actor who looks more like a fashion model than tough street fighter

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 17, 2009

Fighting consistently feels like a patchwork of better movies without their excitement or rooting interest in character.

| Sep 23, 2009

There's something interesting in this film and that's the reality it brings to its subject matter. Scenes seem real. And that's a lot to do with the performances. They're all terrific. But there's the reality of New York too, there's grit here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2009

Despite the formulaic script and cringe worthy moments, the performances from the leads and creation of the subculture are well executed by director Montiel.

| Aug 24, 2009

The only thing you'll be 'fighting' is your lagging attention span.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2009

Montiel and his collaborators can pat themselves on the back for elevating empty material just a bit, but this is disposable cinema, designed to hit and run after an opening weekend. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2009

Entertaining and engaging, Fighting has action, romance and a buddy element in a tight, professional package

| Aug 20, 2009

Fighting is a testosterone-driven movie full of blood, beautiful women, big muscles and enough plot to be a good movie.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 10, 2009

All of this, however, is plainly just a veneer on a solidly generic punch-up movie, and it thus becomes a drag. A more cartoonish approach would probably have been more fun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2009

While everything is highly predictable, the film is well designed and bone-crushingly violent fights are ably staged in Brooklyn.

| May 17, 2009

Quite how that will go down with his testosterone-fuelled, spotty audience, I have no idea.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2009

The problem is that, even with some very strong acting, we're never quite convinced to believe either the relationships or situations.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 16, 2009

The tell-it-as-it-is title hardly indicates anything out of the ordinary, but this bare-knuckle boxing flick is put together with more love than you'd expect.

| Original Score: 3/6 | May 15, 2009

Like a poor man's Fight Club, Fighting is hardly a heavyweight. But with an enjoyable performance from Terrence Howard, the film is no disaster.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2009