History Film / Redbelt

* DanBrowned: There were a number of experts consulted on the film, and this fact was touted in promotional materials, but they were mostly old-school MMA fighters, and they have little interaction with the modern version of the sport. Overall, the film gets very little right about MMA or the fight business.
** There are a great many reasons why the marble gimmick could never catch on or be legally practiced in the United States. The most glaring reason is that no athletic commission would allow competitors to fight handicapped, with an arm tied down.
** Chiwetel Ejiofor's character is offered on opportunity to make his MMA debut days before the event begins. There are numerous reasons why this would and could not happen.
** Ejiofor is offered an outrageous sum of money for a debuting, unknown fighter on the undercard. The sum is also not divided into show/win purses. It's apparently a flat fee, whether or not he wins. Only on rare occasions do ''headliners'' work out special deals that do not include win purses, and it's usually in exchange for a percentage of the event's profits.
** Given that Mamet is himself a Brazilian jiu-jitsu purplebelt, you'd expect the pure BJJ portrayed in the film to be accurate, but it's not without implausible sections to the trained eye. When Ejiofor fights John Machado, the BJJ technical advisor for the film, his character goes for a rear naked choke from a standing position, which is a very poor tactic with a low chance of success.

Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including Creator/BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

''Redbelt'' is a combination martial arts/crime film written and directed by Creator/DavidMamet and starring Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor. Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including Creator/BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

* WarriorPoet: Mike Terry

''Redbelt'' is a combination Martial Arts/Crime film written and directed by Creator/DavidMamet and starring Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor. Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of Jujitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including Creator/BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

''' ''Redbelt'' ''' is a combination Martial Arts/Crime film written and directed by Creator/DavidMamet and starring Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor. Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of Jujitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including Creator/BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

''' ''Redbelt'' ''' is a combination Martial Arts/Crime film written and directed by Creator/DavidMamet and starring Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor. Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of Jujitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including Creator/BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: features a very antiquated and ill-informed version of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts. The main character is offered a chance to fight on the undercard of an event for a flat $50,000, though real fight purses are divided into a "show purse" for fighting and a "win purse" awarded only if the fighter wins. Also, the plot revolves around the concept of implementing randomly-assigned handicaps before each bout, which would ''never'' fly in the real world. The promoters state that the whole point is to make the handicapped fighter lose, but if every fight was determined by a randomly-assigned handicap, no one would bother watching. It defeats the entire point of athletic competition. Also, a system that handicaps fighters would never get past any athletic commissions, which do not allow fighters who cannot defend themselves properly to compete.

** Given that Mamet is himself a Jujitsu purplebelt, you'd expect the pure BJJ portrayed in the film to be accurate, but it's not without implausible sections to the trained eye. When Ejiofor fights John Machado, the BJJ technical advisor for the film, his character goes for a rear naked choke from a standing position, which is a very poor tactic with a low chance of success.
* MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay: The main character (Terry) escapes a standing rear naked choke by running up a wall and doing a backflip. Technically this could work if the person applying the choke just stands there...but 5th degree black belt John Machado, applying the choke, would have in real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didKrAFFlSg put his hooks in]] to stay on Terry's back.[[note]]"Hooks" refer to hooking the inside of your opponent's legs with yours to immobilize them and keep you glued to their back. Note that the second step to escaping in the video link is to remove one or both hooks.[[/note]] Even without his opponent using his legs, it's more likely that Terry's escape would have ended up like [[http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1326037/7_Tony_Hervey_vs._Alexander_Sarnavskiy_medium.gif this]] in real life.

* GretzkyHasTheBall: features a very antiquated and ill-informed version of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts. The main character is offered a chance to fight on the undercard of an event for a flat $50,000, though real fight purses are divided into a "show purse" for fighting and a "win purse" awarded only if the fighter wins. Also, the plot revolves around the concept of implementing randomly-assigned handicaps before each bout, which would ''never'' fly in the real world. The promoters state that the whole point is to make the handicapped fighter lose, but if every fight was determined by a randomly-assigned handicap, no one would bother watching. It defeats the entire point of athletic competition. Also, a system that handicaps fighters would never get past any athletic commissions, which do not allow fighters who cannot defend themselves properly to compete.

''' ''Redbelt'' ''' is a combination Martial Arts/Crime film written and directed by Creator/DavidMamet and starring ChiwetelEjiofor. Mamet called it an homage to the {{Samurai}} Films of Creator/AkiraKurosawa, though it is shot in a decidedly modern fashion. Considering Mamet's years of Jujitsu experience and the involvement of numerous martial artists, including BruceLee's successor Dan Inosanto and MMA legends Randy Couture and Pat Militech, the movie should have been an accurate portrayal of MixedMartialArts, but has been criticized for relying on ludicrous scenarios and cinematic maneuvers.

* MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay: The main character (Terry) escapes a standing rear naked choke by running up a wall and doing a backflip. Technically this could work if the person applying the choke just stands there...but 5th degree black belt John Machado, applying the choke, would have in real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didKrAFFlSg put his hooks in]] to stay on Terry's back.[[note]]"Hooks" refer to hooking the inside of your opponent's legs with yours to immobilize them and keep you glued to their back. Note that the second step to escaping in the video link is to remove one or both hooks.[[/note]] Even without using his legs, it's more likely that Terry's escape would have ended up like [[http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1326037/7_Tony_Hervey_vs._Alexander_Sarnavskiy_medium.gif this]] in real life.

* MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay: The main character (Terry) escapes a standing rear naked choke by running up a wall and doing a backflip. Technically this could work if the person applying the choke just stands there...but 5th degree black belt John Machado, applying the choke, would have in real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didKrAFFlSg put his hooks in]] to stay on Terry's back.[[note]]"Hooks" refer to hooking the inside of your opponent's legs with yours to immobilize them and keep you glued to their back. Note that the second step to escaping in the video link is to remove one or both hooks.[[/note]]

* MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay: The main character (Terry) escapes a standing rear naked choke by running up a wall and doing a backflip. Technically this could work if the person applying the choke just stands there...but 5th degree black belt John Machado, applying the choke, would have in real life [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=didKrAFFlSg put his hooks in]] to stay on Terry's back.[[hottip:*:"Hooks" refer to hooking the inside of your opponent's legs with yours to immobilize them and keep you glued to their back. Note that the second step to escaping in the video link is to remove one or both hooks.]]