never back down 2: the beatdown

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754264/

where do i even begin.  i dunno.  it seems like there is no beginning, nor any end.  all i can say for sure is that there were way too many tattoos and way too little blood.

i watched this movie because i thought, hey, michael jai white.  he is awesome.  there will have to be at least a few good moments, right?  and sure, he beat the hell out of like twenty racist police officers with his hands cuffed, but that was pretty much it.  the sexy time scenes (in a fighting movie???) were also pretty terrible and, disconcertingly, shot in the same style as the fighting scenes.  there must have been an analogy or something that i missed, probably because i do not know any analogies about having sex with random strippers in a back room of a strip club.

oh, the fighting was fine, by the way.  pretty fluid, and probably decently choreographed.  good enough to fool me, anyway.  unfortunately, it was all empty, and they were spouting most of the same platitudes as any other fighting movie.  eg, control your anger so you can more effectively beat the hell out of people.

never back down 2 gets one beatdown.  michael jai white is still awesome.