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Underground

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
4.2/10
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Underground (2007)
Twelve fighters... One tournament... A £500,000 title. There can be only one winner!
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In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds bar... Read allIn the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own rea... Read allIn the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize...but there... Read all

  • Director
    • Chee Keong Cheung
  • Writers
    • Chee Keong Cheung
    • Oliver Morran
  • Stars
    • Mark Strange
    • Nathan Lewis
    • Joey Ansah
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    602
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Chee Keong Cheung
    • Writers
      • Chee Keong Cheung
      • Oliver Morran
    • Stars
      • Mark Strange
      • Nathan Lewis
      • Joey Ansah
    • 18User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Mark Strange
    Mark Strange
    • Mark, The Homeless
    Nathan Lewis
    Nathan Lewis
    • Nathan, The Ex-Convict
    Joey Ansah
    Joey Ansah
    • Joey, The Model
    Leon Sua
    Leon Sua
    • Leon, the Triad
    Glenn Salvage
    Glenn Salvage
    • Father Salvage, The Priest
    Beau Fowler
    Beau Fowler
    • Bo, the Delinquent
    Shane Steyn
    • Sgt. Shane Steyn, The Police Officer
    Liang Yang
    Liang Yang
    • Liang, the Foreigner
    Zara Phythian
    • Zara, The Teacher
    William Mickleburgh
    William Mickleburgh
    • William, The Instructor
    Scott Houston
    • Scott, the Kid
    Chris Smith
    • Corporal Smith, The Soldier
    Fidel Nanton
    • Fidel
    Danny John-Jules
    Danny John-Jules
    • Lamont Gaines
    Gary Webster
    Gary Webster
    • Brandon Glover
    Leonard Fenton
    • Terry Page
    Gordon Alexander
    Gordon Alexander
    • Murray Burnett
    Sophie Linfield
    Sophie Linfield
    • Kari Meadows
    • Director
      • Chee Keong Cheung
    • Writers
      • Chee Keong Cheung
      • Oliver Morran
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    8mail-4290

    Great martial arts film

    To everyone else who's posted about this film, imagine it was named street fighter and released in the 90's.

    If they'd used this formula with the film street fighter in the 90's instead of the whole UN army vs terrorists thing it would have suited it down to the ground.

    If you like martial arts go watch it, if you feel you need x amounts of twists and turns in a movie to enjoy it then don't.

    The plots simple, explain the structure of the tournament. 5 minutes on each fighter's background and motivation. 2 minutes deciding who's up for the next fight, then on with the fight.
    6silverspeed87

    ONLY Extreme martial arts

    I watched this movie 2 days back. i searched for this movie in here. there were no comments. so i thought of posting mine here.

    This is a UK movie. There are no major character in the movie as u can see. The story is about a competition being held in a junkyard underground somewhere in England where 12 fighters each from different background are chosen to fight until last man standing. A prize money of $500,000 goes to the winner. 6 millionaires staked $200,000 each and choose 2 fighters each on their side. it's up to the millionaires who decide among themselves who have to fight. With each round a fighter is eliminated and so on one is victorious.

    The story is just fine but not . There are some amazing fights. All the twelve fighters are shown as having very good martial arts skill. They put up a good show. But this is the only good thing about the movie. The narration is nice too.

    The Direction seems quite amateurish. The script is awful. The man who sets up the fight is shown as having maximum importance. I couldn't understand why was he being happy during the fights. The presentation of the fighters is not good. The unnecessary cut scenes make the movie a bit long perhaps.

    The high rating by me is only due to some stunning fight performances by the actors. Nothing more in for the movie. If u a fan of martial arts movie then WATCH this one for the amazing fights. Otherwise u can give it a miss.
    4joe-1588

    A failed attempt at a reality TV take on underground fights

    I decided to watch this movie thinking it was going to be an action movie with a similar plot to most other fighting type movies where you follow the story of one man as he struggles to reach the top. That was not at all what this was. The director decided to make this basically a movie version of a reality TV show, by having these black and white cameras at times, and these cheesy background stories to the characters that you are given sometimes. Then there is the sequence when a fighter loses, similar to getting voted off in Survivor, except instead he goes home with a broken arm or something. While that may have been an interesting idea to have a reality fighting show, it certainly didn't pan out well in this movie. The fights seemed pretty realistic, where it only took a few hits to get knocked out, but the characters were just too cheesy.

    So for anyone interested in no flairs fights with blood, and a cheesy storyline about people living with each other before fighting each other for 500k pounds, then you can watch this, but anyone interested in an exciting and action packed story-driven movie, go somewhere else.
    7horizonstar

    No plot, but nice to look at

    There's no plot and only a tiny amount of character development in this movie, but it sure is enjoyable to watch. It's like a season's worth of fight scenes from "The Ultimate Fighter" TV show collapsed into one sitting, except of course that the fighting in Underground isn't real.

    Indeed, there were several times when I was annoyed with the silly decisions made by some of these supposedly top-notch martial artists, as well as the unrealistic effects of some of the strikes employed. They seemed out of place in a film that was trying so hard to be base and gritty.

    Nevertheless, if you like watching high-flying, flip-around-in-the-air, make-believe martial arts, then this movie is for you. The filmmakers clearly just wanted to make a bunch of fighting scenes, and they knew that stitching everything together with a contrived, incomprehensible plot would just ruin it (think: Mortal Kombat sequels). So instead they opted for no plot at all, and put their time and money into the choreography.

    Don't like fights? Don't watch. Like fights? It's worth a viewing!
    5nathan-yeo

    A bad but interesting MOVIE.

    You've seen this movie a 1000 times B4 rich and the privileged class bet huge sums of money on lower-class fighters. the fighters have a tragic story and fight for redemption and a better fight. The dialog and script was trash pure rubbish. The problem is we don't live in a world where you have to be a privileged rich bored play-boy to see an under-ground fight club. All you have to do is have basic cable. Or find some fat kid with a bunch of tattoos and give him a 6-pack of beer and a couple VICADONE pills. He'll take you to one. What i did like were the characters they were the most unusual and interesting to be in a fight club. A priest, a teacher, an immigrant, and model. A male model in an underground fight-club. Loved zat.

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      The fighters in the tournament all use their real names as their character names. However, these names are only spoken once or twice in the movie for each fighter; a few of the names aren't spoken at all. Instead, they are referred to as, for example, the Teacher, the Soldier, the Homeless, the Foreigner, etc.

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    • Release date
      • 2007 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 12
    • Filming locations
      • Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Intense Productions
      • T-Tech Digital Media
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      • 1h 35m(95 min)
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      • 1.78 : 1

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