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Never Back Down
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4288
- IMDb #3143
- Google retired #802
- Rotten Tomatoes #4816
- Metacritic #4061
- Letterboxd #3615
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5084
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4777
- Metacritic Critics #4331
- Metacritic Audience #3228
- Criticker #3287
- Douban #1519
- Kinopoisk #1020
- AlloCiné #2625
- Trakt #2704
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 30, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan, head of an underground MMA fight club, picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of the entire school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a MMA master, where he learns how to fight... and how to avoid a fight. But it becomes obvious that a rematch will be inevitable if Jake wants to stop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.
Details
- Director
- Jeff Wadlow
- Writer
- Chris Hauty
- Studio
- Summit Entertainment, Mandalay Pictures, Baumgarten Management and Productions (BMP), Mandalay Independent Pictures
- Released
- 4 March 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $41.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| MTV Movie Award 2008 | Best Fight | Sean Faris and Cam Gigandet | Winner |
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