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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It's a little Karate Kid, a smidge of Fight Club...a lot of The O.C. (evil boy Gigandet played an evil boy on that series), and presto: probable hit. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Jeff Wadlow directed this exploitation flick, which seems designed for students on spring break. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Towering above all is Hounsou, whose performance grants Never Back Down a measure of dignity. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie is just a cheesy, preposterous, semi-eroticized way of yelling, 'Fight! Fight!,' when two people go at it in the school cafeteria. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Movie is dopey. And with its emphasis on stupid violence, xylophone abs, and getting yourself on YouTube, it's yet another product that makes you feel bad about today's youth culture. Read more
Donald Munro, Miami Herald: Director Jeff Wadlow finds a sort of nobility in the subject matter than you might not expect for a film that consists in large part of bloodthirsty mobs clamoring for violence. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: By the time ever-noble, ever-watchable Djimon Hounsou shows up to teach earnest young Jake honor and roundhouse kicks, the power-rock and smashmouth idiocy become like a fever dream, sweaty and hard to shake off. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: A formula flick that should have tapped out in the script stage. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Even though it's as predictable as a pro-wrestling match, what it lacks in originality it makes up for in the nervous energy of youth and testosterone. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This movie isn't bad just because it follows a formula slavishly but because it does so without verve or passion. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The fights are parceled out at intervals during the last half, all leading to a climactic battle. But it's hard to build suspense when you know it is coming and you know who will win. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: You have had soup deeper than this film, and a referee should have been on hand to call foul on the acting. Read more
Jason McBride, Globe and Mail: Mr. Miyagi would not be pleased. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: Tyler does not live on planet Earth, but planet Hollywood formula, where the storm clouds of Fight Club hang over the once charming but now seedy landscape of The Karate Kid. Read more
John Anderson, Variety: The human body can't do or withstand the things this movie claims it can, and one can only hope that pic's probable success doesn't trigger a dramatic rise in schoolyard body-slams, arm locks and chokeholds. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: A modest surprise: better acted than needed, better made than expected. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Never Back Down is teensploitation at its most obvious -- a boneheaded cliche-rama built around six-pack-ab standoffs between preening studs. Read more