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Redbelt

Redbelt (Red Belt)

2008

David Mamet

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Alice Braga, Randy Couture ...

5.6

2,254

Action. Drama A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry (Ejiofor). Though his refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

	Author	Review
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"The film unravels a bit in the last few moments, amid unanswered story questions and a simplistic climax, but until that moment, Redbelt is Mamet's richest film of the decade"	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"As the heart and soul of the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor once again impresses"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy"	POS
United States	Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times	"Ejiofor brings a calm magnetism and a beatific serenity to his roles that have the effect of knocking you flat -- there's something about this guy that's messianic"	POS
United States	Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"Entertaining in a pulpy kind of way, like the fight films of the 1930s and '40s, and more accessible than most of Mamet's movies"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"What is memorable is the film's portrait of a man of honor in a sleazy world, possibly a metaphor for the struggle of the artist to stay honorable in a world of backbiting, betrayal and hunger for easy money"	POS

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