Fist Fight (2017)
Rated R
Starring Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Christina Hendricks,
Directed by Richie Keen
The Story:
On the last day of school, English teacher Andy (Day) inadvertently gets History teacher Strickland (Cube) fired from his job. Strickland decides to retaliate and says at 3:00 when school is out, they're going to fight. Andy then spends the rest of the day trying to make amends or do whatever he can to get out of the fight. Naturally, it doesn't go so well.
Here's where I'm up on my soap box with the language issue. The movie is littered with a mine field of f-bombs to navigate through.
But as I've always said, if you can take the language out, and the jokes would still work, then it's actually funny.
And, I laughed way more often than I was expecting/hoping during this film.
I would say that 90% of that comes squarely because of Charlie Day.
He has perfected the exasperated everyman character to a "t" in his previous film outings where he often plays the buddy of the main character.
Well, here he graduates to the star of the show and carries the entire film on his shoulders. Everything that happens is based on his actions and the spiraling descent into madness as he feverishly works to avoid a confrontation at the end of the day.
So, if you don't like Charlie Day, you'll likely not care for the film.
Ice Cube has less screen time, but his presence is always felt as the hour ticks closer to the 3:00 showdown.
They are also surrounded by some of the worst teachers ever to grace the screen, especially Holly (Bell) the school guidance counselor who is a train-wreck of emotional baggage. :)
So yes, it's crude, but I laughed a lot and the movie kept me interested. I can live with that.
Final Grade: B-
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