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Redbelt / (Ac3 Dol Ws)
Format: DVD (1)
UPC: 0043396261686
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- Release Date : 26/08/2008
- Distributor : Import
- Genres : Action
- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
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Language :
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC] - Subtitles : French
- Number of discs : 1
- Package : Keep Case
- Rated : R
- Special Features
- - Commentary with David Mamet and Randy Couture
- Behind-the-Scenes of Redbelt
- Inside Mixed Martial Arts
- Q&A with David Mamet
- An Interview with Dana White
- Fighter Profiles
- The Magic of Cyril Takayama
- Credits
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- Actors : Max Martini, Matt Cable (III), Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alice Braga, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Joe Mantegna, David Paymer, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen, Randy Couture, Rodrigo Santoro
- Directors : David Mamet
- Studio : Sony Pictures
- Run Time : 99 mins
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Synopsis :
Like David Mamet's previous films; Redbelt's narrative slowly exposes the well-guarded secrets of systems shrouded in mystique and conspiracy; this time at martial-arts academies and on Hollywood film and television sets. Reminiscent of Rocky; Redbelt is an unapologetically moralistic tale of an impoverished; inner city Jiu Jitsu instructor whose idealism is an affront to those who seek to sink him. Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor); unknowingly affiliated with the wealthy Brazilian family who rigs televised MMA matches; naively rescues actor Chet Frank (Tim Allen) from being mutilated in a bar brawl; but isn't able to link Frank's sketchy relations until Terry's life is endangered. Fated to assist Terry is attorney Laura Black (Emily Mortimer); who conveniently stumbles into Terry's Jiu Jitsu academy early in the film's opening. With an impossibly mandarin plot; Redbelt is packed with improbable coincidences and confusing; maze-like dead-ends; but the sheer brainpower required to sleuth along keeps one riveted throughout. Plus; it is hard not to be thrilled by ample; accurately enacted Jiu Jitsu fight scenes. Mamet's actors deliver deadpan; poker-faced dialogue to comedic effect; especially Ricky Jay; who plays an MMA star's corrupt manager. Allen; also; is surprisingly suited to portraying an untouchable; overly serious Hollywood film star. Even Redbelt's subplots revolve around fighting: while Frank shoots a war film; Terry hashes it out with his wife who urges him to earn some cash. In the end; one wonders if Terry's uphill struggle isn't representative of the director's attempt to sift through convoluted narrative threads for an archetypal hero legend that is sparklingly simple. --Trinie Dalton