Pit Fighter is a 2005 action movie directed by Jesse Johnson

Jesse Johnson (filmmaker)

Jesse V. Johnson is a stunt coordinator and filmmaker, born on November 29, 1971, in Winchester, England, UK.Johnson has made primarily Action films. These include the 2009 revenge thriller The Butcher and the Crime drama Charlie Valentine. Johnson frequently works with actors Keith David and...

. The film stars Dominique Vandenberg, Steven Bauer

Steven Bauer

Steven Bauer is a Cuban-American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, and his role on the bilingual PBS show Que Pasa, USA.-Early life:...

 and Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (actor)

Stephen Graham is an English actor from Kirkby, Liverpool. He is best known for his roles as Tommy in the movie Snatch, Combo in This Is England and its four-part television sequel This Is England '86, Danny Ferguson in Occupation, Billy Bremner in The Damned United, notorious bank robber Baby...

 and also Scott Adkins

Scott Adkins

Scott Adkins is an English actor and martial artist who is perhaps best known for playing Yuri Boyka in Undisputed II: Last Man Standing and Undisputed III: Redemption and Bradley Hume in Holby City and Ed Russell in Mile High...

. The film is in no way related to the 1990 arcade videogame Pit-Fighter

Pit-Fighter

Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade game by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The Japanese arcade release was published by Konami. The graphic animation for the player character and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the...

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Plot

The film is about a quiet yet intense man named Jack (Vandenberg) Severino who has no recollection of his past. He spends his time in violent no holds barred fights in a small South American village. The only friend he has is his manager Manolo, an Indian trying to escape poverty. However soon Jack's violent past catches up with him when he sees a woman he has not seen in five years brings back his memories.

The film is most notable for its violent fight scenes in which Jack's Muay Thai

Muay Thai

Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...

style of fighting clashes with fighters of different styles such as boxing, wrestling, ju jitsu, capoeira and karate.

Reception

The film has not been well received by critics and has a 0% fresh rating (from 3 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes and David Nusair of Reel Film said "There've been a lot of bad straight-to-video action flicks over the years, but this is surely the worst".