Film200899 min

Redbelt

Name: Redbelt
Genre: Drama
Released: 2008
Duration: 99 min
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Alice Braga, José Pablo Cantillo, Randy Couture

Taste attributes: dramasportsfastheavyrealisticlineargrittyenclosedemotive & stirringall consuming questcomplex relationshipgame/competition

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"There's always a way out. You just have to find it."

Boxlist takeA grounded drama, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Taste details

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: gritty · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

6.3 /10

TMDB · 183 votes

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What lines up

Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Intricacy: Balanced intricacy, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Originality: Balanced originality, where this profile leans fresh / original

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Synopsis

Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.

Synopsis: TMDB