Never Surrender (film)

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Never Surrender
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"Never Surrender" Film Poster
Directed by Hector Echavarria
Written byHector Echavarria
David Storey
Produced byHector Echavarria
Curtis Petersen
StarringHector Echavarria
B.J. Penn
Georges St. Pierre
Anderson Silva
Quinton Jackson
Heath Herring
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date
  • April 28, 2009 (2009-04-28)
LanguageEnglish

Never Surrender is a 2009 MMA film about an MMA champion who finds himself fighting in illegal underground cage fights. The film's cast features a number of real MMA fighters. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California and was produced by Destiny Entertainment Productions. It is distributed in the United States by Lions Gate Entertainment.

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Reception

Bill Gibron of PopMatters gave the film a score of 7/10 and called it "groin-grabbing entertainment that never even attempts to engage you on an intellectual level" and "unapologetic at delivering exactly what you expect from a movie made up of MMA members". [1] Sander Collin of Cinemagazine rated the film 3.5/5 stars and opined that the film was lighthearted and entertaining if forgettable and unoriginal. [2] Conversely, David Walker of DVD Talk rated the film 0.5/5 stars, calling it "so bad that it only warrants a viewing if it appears on cable (uncut, of course), at a time when there's nothing else on, you have nothing else to do, you have insomnia and have run out of sleeping pills." [3]

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References

  1. Gibron, Bill (April 26, 2009). "Never Surrender (2009)". PopMatters . Retrieved July 17, 2025.
  2. Collin, Sander. "Never Surrender (2009)". Cinemagazine. Retrieved July 17, 2025.
  3. Walker, David (April 28, 2009). "Never Surrender". DVD Talk . Retrieved July 17, 2025.