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Fist Fight (2017)



Fist Fight (2017)



2/10



Starring
Ice cube
Charlie Day


Directed by Richie Keen


I had a nice movie weekend, but I decided to top it off by watching Fist Fight—one of the most moronic things ever put together and called a movie.

I’ll give the movie credit for one thing: everything happens in a single stretch. The producers didn’t have to worry much about locations or scripting, as most of the scenes take place during one day in a high school.

Whoever wrote this movie and thought they’d created something worth watching—other than themselves—must have been on some of the drugs featured in the film. The pacing was awful, moving so fast at times that I forgot the names of the lead characters and had to wait for someone to say them out loud.

The movie is supposed to be an over-the-top portrayal of teachers in a school with fictional, badly behaved teens as students. It’s meant to be silly fun, but it’s not. Everything that’s supposed to be the comic attraction—the reason you’d stay to see the ending—is missing. Instead, you’re left with a bunch of adults making fools of themselves and calling it a movie.


Charlie Day has always been comfortable playing characters who are blissfully unaware of their childishness, happily living in their own little world. Ice Cube, on the other hand, plays a tough, confident guy with motives to make the world a better place. When these two teachers meet, the producers were probably hoping for a buddy comedy about an odd couple. But judging by the ratings and box office returns, they didn’t get what they wanted.

You’d think with these two actors in their comfort zones, the movie would turn out great and be worth watching. But that wasn’t the case with Fist Fight. The characters might have been comfortable in their roles, but the movie was so terrible that it made them just as bad as the events unfolding on screen.

The movie didn’t even bother to waste time developing any characters. It rushes through introducing the leads, the supporting cast, and the theme. Then, we watch as these two leads go back and forth—one trying to fight, the other trying to avoid it.

The plot is simple: Andy (Charlie Day) witnesses Ron (Ice Cube) wielding an axe in class and chopping up a desk. When Ron asks him not to rat him out, Andy does anyway, fearing he’ll be fired. Now, a furious Ron tells Andy there’s going to be a fist fight after school for snitching.

The rest of the movie follows these two leads as they go through the day, leading up to the fight.

What a waste of film reel.


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