When I saw the preview for this I thought it looked pretty lame. I was actually surprised though, that the preview was way off on the movie which just looked like some UFC style fighting and two guys who were competing with each other. It was more like a confused and angry teenager moves to Orlando from Iowa after his little brother wins a tennis scholarship. With the family on the rocks because of the death of the father who's death is somewhat mentioned and not explained until later for a fresh new start at returning to a more functional family. Guy meets girl, girl lures boy into trouble even though she has interest in him and then the lead character ends up training how to fight to kick the ass of the guy who demolished and embarassed him, but then to gain and show strength and overcoming life's challenges and excepting responsibility and realising when you're not to be blamed for life's mishaps. The lead character looked and somewhat sounded like a taller, better looking Tom Cruise. I was completely distracted by his good looks and body. I was disappointed that Dijmon Hounsou was the martial-boxing style mentor. He has done so many great films and such an amazing actor, I felt this was beneath him. The role made him look type-casted because he's just so damn muscular and good looking. I enjoyed the mousy and geeky friend and the endowed blonde looked like any other pretty face with a nice body, which seems to be cropping up lately with unknown stars in movies. It was better than I expected and it wasn't completely void of a realistic plot or dialogue.
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