Never Surrender (film)

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.

Cast

Hector Echavarria as Diego Carter
Patrick Kilpatrick as Seifer
Silvia Koys as Sandra
James Russo as Jimmy
Georges St-Pierre as Georges
Anderson Silva as Spider
Heath Herring as Stone
Quinton Jackson as Rampage
B.J. Penn as BJ
Damian Perkins as Diamond
Lateef Crowder as Marco
Gunter Schlierkamp as Crusher

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". Sander Collin of Cinemagazine rated the film 3.5/5 stars and opined that the film was lighthearted and entertaining if forgettable and unoriginal. 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, 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."