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One+of+the+less+sweaty+moments+from+the+training+montage. Director Jeff Wadlow's camera lingers in slow-mo, voyeuristic close-up as the chiselled Tyler whips his shirt off, then bench presses, boxes and finally writhes around the floor with various stacked, oiled-up opponents. Indeed, these scenes top maybe even the equivalent sequence in Rocky III (when Sly and Apollo Creed, striped to the waist, raced, fought and eventually hugged in slow motion to the strains of Eye of the Tiger) as the most homoerotic work-out scenes in cinema. You just have to find a way'), the hero taking a shine to the villain's hot girlfriend (a perky Amber Heard), and of course, the obligatory sweaty training montages. What follows is virtually a tick list of clichés associated with this kind of thing: the wise trainer (Djimou Hansen) dispensing life lessons and gnomic cod-philosophical advice ('In any fight, you can change your position. What+a+surprise,+Jake's+taken+his+shirt+off. And thus Jake must embark on a punishing training programme to prepare for the 'Beatdown' – a UFC style fighting tournament – in order to have his revenge. Jake quickly adjusts to life with the rich kids, and discovers they're all into underground fighting, with blond-jock-a**hole Ryan soon giving our hero a beating. Kicking off with a brawl on the football pitch, Jake's family relocates from the sticks to sunny Orlando after his cute younger brother wins a tennis scholarship. Never Back Down revolves around hot, moody Jake Tyler - a High School kid with anger issues brought about by the death of his booze-hound father. And to be fair, it lives up to this silly premise, and may just be the year's funniest guilty pleasure thus far. ' Fight Club-meets- Karate Kid-by way of The O.C.' is possibly how this laughably ridiculous teen fighting movie was pitched by faceless studio execs.