UFC 141: Lesnar vs. Overeem.....4/10 stars
The fighting was cool on some parts, but I find MMA to actually be kind of boring. The main event didn't even go one round and it seems like the fights are 90% filled with pre fight and post fight talk including the entrances and rules.
Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown.....5.5/10 stars
They didn't have much to work with. First one was outstanding in this series, but this one was more of a drag-me-along predictable film.
I thought it was weird how they made the kid who worked in the comic store the loser/dork of the film early on, and then "fixed" him up into mma shape, and then brought him back down to a jerky dork state. Usually movies make the dork a winner, but this one didn't do that. I wasn't sure if they were trying to say that shy outsiders are dorks that can't be trusted, but that was vibe I got.
Also, there was an odd scene where the main woman in the film who is supposed to be the "good girl" of the film says that she's had sex with 17 men b4 (btw she's college age, so that's a ton). I thought that was a very odd thing to put in the movie. Then they have this extremely good looking guy (many of them are in this) who in the movie is the virgin and that was totally unrealistic considering he was very socially confident and good looking. In real life people like him are the ones who get all the ladies.
Pointless sex scene during the movie in a strip club which was also weird.
As you can see I found lots of oddities in this movie.
Something they did well was they nailed the roid rage beefhead mentality that fighters have. The guys who were mma fighters were constantly getting into verbal altercations and even physical at times with eachother.
All in all, the movie was watchable. They did what they could with what little they had to work with.
Hitler: The Rise of Evil: Ssn 1: Ep 1.........6/10 stars
Intriguing and educational. It's in English which takes away the realism but also makes it easier to understand.