Fighting
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Metascore
61 out of 100

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4.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 30 Ratings

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  • Starring: Channing Tatum, Luis Guzmán, Terrence Howard
  • Summary: Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for street-fighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership. (Rogue Pictures)
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    88
    Fighting has real grit and excellent acting. In other words, there is gold in that dirt.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    I like the way the personalities are allowed to upstage the plot in Fighting, a routine three-act fight story that creates uncommonly interesting characters.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    60
    In Channing Tatum, who also starred in "Saints," the film has a good-looking, magnetic hunk to draw a crowd. Terrence Howard lends the pedigree of great screen acting, and Zulay Henao adds charm and glamour.
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Fighting seriously lacks punch.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 9 out of 15
  1. WinstonL
    10
    This was one of the most intense movies I've seen...I loved it!
  2. jimmytancredi
    6
    Fighting is a film that tries desperately to be relevant in any way, but it is only a weak action film punctuated by some good ideas in the script. The film tells the story of Shawn MacArthur, a young man lost in life after a fight in a square is contacted by an agent that helps him making money in illegal fights.
    With an outcome of the head just wrong (as The Man Who Copied, for example), Fighting is a film that shows that the end had interesting characters and was supposed to be a good movie, and itâ    … Expand
  3. kgm
    2
    Punchdrunk
  4. TavoG
    1
    How is this movie getting halfway decent reviews? Worst movie I have seen since the last Indiana Jones movie.

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