Never Back Down

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Very few movies are able to keep you on the edge of your seat with anticipation. The movie Never Back Down, which was released in March of 2008, does just that. It is full of frivolous high school drama, which leads to fierce violence, and action packed scenes. The main characters in the movie are Jake Tyler and Ryan McCarthy. Jake Tyler is played by the actor Sean Henry Faris and Ryan McCarthy is played by the actor Cam Gigandet. More specifically, Never Back Down is about a family that is together, yet they are not in the same world. A widowed, hard working mother of two sons struggles to provide them with guidance. Her younger son, Charlie, is bright, strong willed, and has the positive attitude that everyone would want in their son. The older son, Jake Tyler, is silent. He was with his father during a car crash that inevitably took his father’s life away from this family. Jake is an angry, high school football player that has a chip on his shoulder. His buttons can be easily pushed and when they are, he pops like a fire cracker. Early in the movie this family of three relocates to Florida due to Charlie’s Wimbledon Tournament, Jake’s hotheaded past intervenes with his social life, at his new high school. There is a video clip of Jake in a violent fight, literally kicking the shit out of his opponent. It leaves everyone dying to witness his fighting abilities. Jake’s peers in Florida want to see him fight eagerly. He is drawn, innocently and effortlessly, into a battle by Ryan McCarthy’s girlfriend, Baja Miller. Ryan McCarthy relentlessly thinks he “owns” the high school. Jake Tyler gets tricked into attending one of McCarthy’s parties, where McCarthy makes intentional comments about Jake’s family loss, in attempt to get him heated up and rearing to tussle. Jake is now a walking time bomb. The fighting started all because of the casual party that was set up
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