Never Back Down: Revolt
Directed by Kellie MadisonA woman who has been kidnapped and sold into an underground fighting ring motivates the other captive women to lead a revolt against their captors and escape to freedom.
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- jackmeatAugust 16, 2025My quick rating - 3.8/10. If you have been looking for that movie to see Michael Bisping beat the shit out of women, here it is. This series has been around for a while, and this underground fighting plot has been around even longer. But this is by far the weakest entry so far. The first one had some minor star power and actually played out decently. The next two had a slight favorite of mine in Michael Jai White and actually kept the MMA action flix going quite well, all hovering in the 6 range (from me and IMDB). But all of that is completely lost here. Not because they have changed to using the underground fighters for women. No, that is not the issue at all with this one. First, you really don't know that is what is happening straight off. Ok, I am good with a little misdirection, so I let it slide, but then it turned into a bizarre, more like a human trafficking-type movie that occasionally made the women fight for the pleasure of the soon-to-be suitors. So I was never sure if it was about the fighting or the kidnapping of the women being sold off. On top of this, the choreography of the fight scenes is non-existent, so a big sell would be seeing some good fight scenes, and that gets left out. Then, after our star's (Hannah Al Rashid) brother is able to get someone to believe that his sister is in trouble and being held against her will, the whole thing ends in an anticlimactic jumble of nonsense. I suppose getting people to buy into these fight clubs' existence is becoming plausible, so now it is time to start selling them happening to women. I don't doubt somewhere it is happening, but I still doubt it is anywhere close to as glorious as movies such as these make it out to be. Also, they always seem to be so well-known known about yet never can the police figure out where they are. I guess tropes that have been developed for this sub-genre need to be created somewhere.
- dotnVOAugust 1, 2025In a word, garbage.
- C3RB3RU5.April 26, 2025Never Back Down: Revolt is a complete disaster from start to finish. The acting is flat, the fights are poorly choreographed and filmed with dizzying shaky-cam, and the story is so weak and predictable it feels like it was copied from a bad fanfiction. There’s no heart, no tension, and no reason to care about any of the characters. It’s a cheap, soulless attempt to cash in on a franchise that deserved better. Skip it — even hardcore fight movie fans will be disappointed.
Never Back Down: Revolt Trivia
Never Back Down: Revolt was released on November 15, 2021.
Never Back Down: Revolt was directed by Kellie Madison.
Never Back Down: Revolt has a runtime of 89 min.
Never Back Down: Revolt was produced by Craig Baumgarten, David Zelon.
The key characters in Never Back Down: Revolt are Anya (Olivia Popica), Janek (Michael Bisping), Mariah (Brooke Johnston).
Never Back Down: Revolt is rated R.
Never Back Down: Revolt is an Action, Drama, Crime film.
Never Back Down: Revolt has an audience rating of 3.5 out of 10.