6/10
Follow the trail of breadcrumbs out of the ring and sooner or later you'll sink into the bloody sand beneath it.
19 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
A quarter million grand prize waiting at the top of the shadowy podium pits hungry combatants with diverse fighting styles against one another. Some fighters more aware of the extent of the changes to the rules than others.

Enter two fleet footed late twenties with a rad taste for cheesy ambient music and chest thumping teenage dialogue. Frustrated with the pace of the official ladder these restless slow-bloomers watch a promotional shootfighting video and quickly decide to take time out of their busy chick wooing schedule to head for Mexico.

After less than glowing results in the first leg, the two disagree when it comes to upping the stakes to move into the next round. They go their separate ways, rebellious drifter taking straight arrow's place training for the Karate Regionals while he adopts his own training regime to ready himself for the shootfighting finals.

The finals unveil the brutality in a flurry of heated death matches and without an exit his buddy has to return to fight by his side. Foolhardy deal making tests the limits of their friendship and ultimately presses their trainer and shootfighting master into the match he refused the exiled leader of the underground Mexican ring all those years ago.
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