Bob Sapp Movies
Director Ben Ramsey and writer Michael Andrews team for this martial arts action thriller concerning a mysterious drifter (Michael Jai White) who becomes ensnared in the seedy world of underground street fighting. In the back alleys of Los Angeles, life is cheap and to go against the grain is to take on the most powerful criminal organization on the West Coast. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Jai White
A high-stakes day trader wagers that his luck in the stock market will transfer to the gambling tables in a dramatic look at the lure of the almighty dollar starring Ethan Embry and Kathleen Robertson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ethan Embry, Kathleen Robertson, (more)
- 2007
Breakout features a night of mixed-martial arts bouts consisting entirely of female combatants. Among the fighters who appear on the card are Ginele Marquez, Kelly Kobold, Megumi Fiji, Adrienna Jenkins, and Shayna Baszelr. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Megumi Fuji, Kelly Kobold, (more)
- 2006
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Pride Fighting Championships: Demolition features a series of mixed martial art fighting held in Japan in 2002. The eight battles presented in this release feature such fighters as Don Frye, Yoshihiro Takayama, Renzo Gracie, Alex Stiebling, and Gary Goodridge. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Yoshihiro Takayama, Bob Sapp, (more)
Daredevil's main squeeze gets resurrected in her own flick with this spin-off martial arts actioner from director Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire, The X-Files: Fight the Future). Jennifer Garner returns to the role of Elektra Natchios, a hired assassin whose origins are finally revealed after her old ninja clan the Hand brings her back from the dead to serve their evil purposes. Reunited with her old sensei, Stick (Terence Stamp), Elektra leaves the past behind her and is eventually given an assignment to kill Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his daughter, Abby (Kristin Prout). When her conscience gets the best of her and she decides to protect them instead, it's up to the Hand's top assassins to track her down and finish the job. Fans of Marvel Comics might recognize Natassia Malthe as Typhoid Mary, another nemesis of Daredevil that joins in the hunt, along with other masters of the dark mystic arts, Tattoo (Chris Ackerman), Stone (Bob Sapp), and the Hand's fearsome leader, Kirigi (Will Yun Lee). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, (more)
One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is arrested for a serious traffic accident aggravated by the fact he was drunk. Crewe is sentenced to Allenville Penitentiary, where Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) is something of a football fan. Hazen had organized his guards into an impressive football team, and clears a healthy profit by taking bets on their games. Looking to make the competition more interesting, Hazen suggests that Crewe put together a team from the inmate population to play his guards. With the help of fellow prisoner Caretaker (Chris Rock), Crewe recruits the heaviest hitters from the cell block for the team, but the guys don't play like a unit until Crewe and Caretaker get some help from Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds), a former college and NFL coach doing hard time. Adapted from Robert Aldrich's 1974 box-office smash of the same name, The Longest Yard also features rap star Nelly and Nicholas Turturro; the film has previously been loosely remade in 2001 as Mean Machine, with the action moved to England and the game changed to soccer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, (more)
