By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Richie Keen
Cast: Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Kumail Nanjani, JoAnna García Swisher, Christina Hendricks, Alexa Nisenson and Dennis Hasybert.
Rating: Poor.
Charlie Day and Ice Cube star in a comedy directed by Richie Keen called “Fist Fight”, which makes Keen´s debut in feature film since he has directed episodes from “It´s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and the results are poor.
In the last day of school, English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) begins to have a very bad when he encounters with Mr. Strickland (Ice Cube) and he witnesses in one of Strickland´s rants how he destroyed a student´s desk with an axe.
Campbell rats him up which makes Strickland furious. Now Strickland wants to challenge Campbell to a fist fight after school at the parking lot.
Now Andy will be in a race against time to save his own life and avoid the fight at all costs before it´s too late.
“Fist Fight” is a comedy that could have had a better approach if several rewrites would have been involved.
The script written by Evan Susser and Van Robichaux had very funny elements and some good jokes but at the end of the day I was looking at the same film as “Three O´ Clock High” of 1987 directed by Phil Joanou which was a huge hit in the eighties and of course it was much funnier.
Nothing happened in the film and the climax it´s one of the most ridiculous that I have seen in a while and again it was a rip off from the movie that I previously mentioned.
Charlie Day is without a doubt one of the most funniest people in comedy right now and he had some good skits in this movie but that was it. I really enjoyed the Charlie Day from “Horrible Bosses” and “It´s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” but here he was to much of a wimp in this film.
The chemistry between Day and Ice Cube had funny bits and it could have been much better if there would have been a better screenplay, which was the main problem of this film.
Hopefully we can see another comedy from Charlie Day in the future since he is really talented and he is very funny but not on this film.
With that being said “Fist Fight” is one of the most stupid films I have seen in a while and I cannot recommend it.