Karate Kid meets MMA with zero budget and maximum earnestness — can you survive the cheese?
A desperate teenager is forced into the dangerous world of underground fighting to win enough money to save his ailing mother. He finds out what he's made of in the face of these violent hungry competitors.
Acting
Tommy Flanagan commits harder than this movie deserves.
Practical Effects
Real MMA fighters doing their own scrappy choreography.
Production
Shot in 12 days on a shoestring that shows.
Director
Shaun Paul Piccinino
Tommy Flanagan
McClellen
Sean Patrick Flanery
Duke
Bryan Craig
Ryan Caulder
Allison Paige
Heidi
Salome Azizi
Goli Jahani
Vince Hill-Bedford
Chet Mueller
Anna Zielinski
Fiona
Christina Moore
Joy
John Ducey
Captain Dennis Martin
Jessica Uberuaga
Ms. Turner
George Kosturos
Ali Jahani
Guy A. Grundy
Tank
Teresa Navarro
Fight Club Waitress
Marcella Bragio
College Student
William W. Barbour
Gambler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Shaun Paul Piccinino is a prolific stunt coordinator who cranks out 3-4 micro-budget action films yearly for the streaming algorithm.
This epitomizes the 'Christian MMA movie' boom of the late 2010s — faith themes surgically removed for wider distribution, leaving only the earnestness.
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