There’s also a couple of really good gags, a genuinely sweet romance between Case and the PR lady, Myca (played by Michael Jai White’s real-life spouse, Gillian White), and a funny if somewhat random cameo from White’s Skin Trade co-star Tony Jaa.ĪKA: The Fighters 3: No Surrender Never Back Down 3. His characters may be broad but his message is noble, and this positive ethos carries the film.
White is not only an incredibly likable and engaging screen presence – sporting great charisma and physicality – but he also shows himself to be a moral and principled filmmaker. download Never Back Down No Surrender (2016) DVDRip x264 AC3-UNDERCOVER Language(s): English 01:41:15 720x400 1800 kbs 23. Never Back Down: No Surrender Trailer Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again. Case resists the multi-million dollar offers from an organisation calling itself the PFC (a clear cipher for the UFC), instead preferring to remain in the shadows as a mentor to his buddy Brody (Josh Barnett), who is scheduled to take on steroid-headed giant slayer Nathan Jones in a Bangkok cage fight. The arrogance of the next generation of MMA fighters is shown to be another indictment on a sport which has lost its discipline and philosophical roots. The younger jocks in their designer gym-wear call him “old school” and, as a provocation, “Blackie Chan”. White returns as Case Walker, the ex-con hobo who is built like a tank, who turns heads in a Thai gym when he starts performing his Shotokan karate kata, using scrap material as work out props and drawing on the walls.
This sequel essentially does away with the teen movie themes outlined in the 2008 original – and only mildly observed in the 2011 sequel – and focuses instead on the commercialisation of MMA, which White argues has been overrun by banned substances and unscrupulous promoters. The Never Back Down franchise just gets better and better under Michael Jai White’s direction.