Fist Fight
2017 · Directed by Richie Keen
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
What it’s like
Bright, flat daylight and sun-bleached school corridors, with the saturated, slightly glossy look of a mid-budget studio comedy: lockers, fluorescent classrooms, a parking lot baking under a hot, cloudless afternoon. The camera stays mostly conventional, with plenty of medium two-shots and quick cutaways to reaction faces, and the score is upbeat, hip-hop-tinged pop that nudges each escalation along. The tone is loud, broad and irreverent, a high-school-set comedy built on escalating set pieces and sharp back-and-forth banter between its two leads, one jittery and one deadpan. Its rhythm is brisk, with jokes landing every few seconds and little room for quiet, though the emotional core is a slow, grudging respect growing between two men who start out as enemies. Intensity is moderate: there is a lot of profanity, crude humour, and cartoonish slapstick, plus a climactic fight that is comic rather than brutal, with minor bruising and no real gore. Best suited to a lazy weekend evening or a light group watch, and to viewers who want raucous, R-rated laughs rather than anything gentle.
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