This violent little gem came to me courtesy of Netflix streaming suggestions. While not an awards contender by any means, it was an enjoyable romp through the underground fight club world.Bone (Michael Jai White) is released from prison. We don't know what he did and, frankly, we don't need to know. He beats people's asses. That is usually enough in our society to warrant a little jail time. He finds a room for rent and immediately goes looking for an underground fight promoter, finding a foul-mouthed little scamp named Pinball (Dante Basco). Pinball is strictly small-time so he thinks he's hit the lottery when stone-cold BAMF Bone wants him to start organizing fights. Bone builds up a reputation around town, leading up to a fight with Hammerman (Bob Sapp), who is owned by smooth operator James (Eamonn Walker). Once James sees Bone in action, he realizes that there is his ticket to the big leagues and entrance into the Consortium: a high-powered crime ring led by Franklin McVeigh (Julian Sands). But Bone has his own agenda to pursue.
Yeah, as if I wasn't going to be sold the minute I saw Julian Sands in the credits. But for you hard-to-please types there's also Rufio from Hook and a special little cameo by Gina Carano, before she got Hollywood famous and was just fight famous. There's also a lot of ass-kicking. Did I mention that? So much ass-kicking. If you wanted to buy it, you could probably get it for cheap since I don't think a lot of mainstream people heard about this one. I'm not going to judge you. I was entertained throughout the entire movie.
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