Product Details

• Actors: Renzo Gracie, Chris Torres
• Directors: Gerson Sanginitto
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 25, 2007
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000WM4R2S
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #108,493 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Fight Legend Renzo Gracie in His First Movie.
Jimmy Garren, a former Tae Kwon Do world champion, is now retired and a widowed father to ten-year-old Katie. So when he's challenged by a famous cage fighter--and former rival Nick "the Nasty" Harper--to a fight, he refuses...until Katie is kidnapped by Harper's crew. With the match being the only way to save his daughter, Jimmy travels to Brazil to train with world-renowned MMA fighter Renzo Gracie for a deadly fight in the cage...that only one man will survive.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars PREETY GOOD + IT HAS RENZO GRACIE, February 17, 2009

By	fmwaalex "fmwaalex" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

MAXIMUM CAGE FIGHTING

I love mixed martial arts and everything about it, so naturally ant thing about it I will buy with out a doubt. Much like I bought "Red Belt" for Randy Couture I bought this film for Renzo Gracie. So I was looking forward to this movie since it had Renzo in it I figured it had to be good, so I watched it along side my girl and my brother. Turns out that while the movie is not horrible it is not that great either. It has a good story line kinda and decent to bad performances but that has never stopped me from liking a movie before, still I could not bring myself to love this film aside from Renzo. After viewing this I can say that this is much better some movies but as far as MMA movies "Red Belt" beats this one hands down, maybe it was the budget, I don't know.

The movie is about Jimmy Garren a Tae Kwon Do instructor for kids and a former world champion is moving on with his life after his wife died and he is left rearing a daughter alone. Life is good for them aside from the death but still they are well off enough to be happy. Until a former rival from back in the day kidnaps his daughter in order to force Jimmy to give him a rematch. Of course now it is not a tournament for one style, Nick is a cage fighter who wants revenge for his one loss. Seeking guidance from his former mentor Master Chong he heads off to Brazil to learn the ground game [Ju jitsu] from world renowned fighter Renzo Gracie. As time is ticking down until fight night Jimmy must learn all he can in order to become a more well rounded fighter to win and get his daughter back.

Director Gerson Sanginitto and writer Joanna Chong obviously wanted to make a good film judging off of the story line, but it falls a little short. Like I said this may be because of the budget or the performances of most of the cast, still it fell short. The direction is on point for the most part as the film moves along nicely still it is uneven. Chong's script while flat at times is good enough for a low budget action flick. I think the biggest problem with the film is the acting and the fights, the acting more so then the fighting. Jason Field is decent in the lead role but he seems to strain at times during the more emotionally demanding scenes, same can be said for Richard Alonzo as the villain. The two people they stay with are as such, the guy who is jealous did not do such a great job but the women who played his wife was good. And the lead henchman for Nick needs some more acting classes it seems but at times he is actually good. Still there are some good performances amongst this cast such as executive producer Jun Chong as Master Chong; some might know him from some other low budget action films. And of course Renzo Gracie is great playing himself as he seems just as nice here as he does in real life.

The other thing about this movie is the fight scenes which are take or leave so to speak, some are decent while others are bad. Still the scenes with Jimmy learning from Renzo are great and show a little ju jitsu technique, so that was good. Still the fights are nothing special and much better ones can be found else where. But to be honest they are not horrendous and you can tell work went into them, the last one in particular.

This is not a bad film and is worthy of a rental in my opinion but if you are not into MMA I would say pass on this one. As a fan of mixed martial arts I liked it and can see the potential in the film. The DVD comes with the trailer and a behind the scenes feature; rent it if you are into this kind of thing.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEYOND WORDS...or SYMBOLS, January 1, 2008

By	A Customer - See all my reviews

This is, by far, the most amazing MMA movie ever made. Period.

Just the first few minutes alone will capture your interest with unreal action and deadly techniques. My mouth was watering for more and more action, and you know what? The movie delivered with a buffet of fun, action, and ULTIMATE sexy-time.

Gerson has again proven himself to be the world's finest action/mma director, and if there's an MMA movie for fun family viewing, don't miss out on this one.

1.0 out of 5 stars I've never given a B-Grade Martial Arts movie 1 star before, September 8, 2008

By	markrob0 (australia wa perth) - See all my reviews

I have to disagree with A Customer's review because I expected so much better from this film and especially from Jun Chong who performed his worse on screen fight scene ever!!! I thought with Jun that would be impossible for him to achieve but I guess he has been away from the movie business for a little while now and it might've put him out of wack.

The acting is absolutely terrible and I couldn't help but laugh when Jimmy Garren is trying to cry but couldn't even bring out a tear or put any extra effort into his emotions/acting for the viewers. When "Nasty" who is Jimmy's rival would put on a big, scary angry look it made me think that Nasty was constopated or something. These guys are certainly not serious actors and if you are expecting some decent acting...you certainly won't find it by watching Maximum Cage Fighting. I think anyone else would be able to a better job in acting. These clowns would have to be the worse of the worse. The fight scenes were not that crash hot either and the Tae Kwon Do scenes were shocking. Do I need to say anymore?

I am so sad to say these awful things about this movie as I'm a big fan of Jun Chong movies but Jun...what are you thinking? Bring out the same magic as you did in Street Soldiers, LA Streetfighters or Silent Assassins if you plan to make another movie.