Although a mere 91 minutes, “Fist Fight” seems twice as long. Things basically happen until they don’t. “Three O’Clock High,” there’s no real sense of time in “Fist Fight.” Unlike its obvious inspiration, the semi-cult favorite The faculty re-interviewing for their jobs during a school day and why are actual classes conducted on the last day of school? If every teacher is under review, why do they seem to come and go from their jobs whenever they please and why do they curse loudly in front of the students?Ībsolutely nothing makes sense in this movie and first-time feature filmmaker Richie Keen exacerbates things with his meandering, improvisatory pacing. Granted, “Fist Fight” is a comedy, but shouldn’t some part of it be grounded in reality? Why is In what weird cynical universe is a person’s 911 call met with mocking laughter? Where a teacher is allowed to stay on school grounds after making terroristic threats and is caught attacking a student with an axe, “Fist Fight” seems to view Day’s reluctance to fight an unstable switchblade wielding man who thinks coffee machines work when you shout at them as the cowardly acts of a craven pussy. None of it works but along the way Day learns to stand up for himself and blah, de, blah, de, fart, fart. ![]() Day, in turn, tries everything he can to get out of it, including, bribing the student who was attacked by Cube with a Macbook Pro in order to get him to retract his complaint, framing Cube for possessing drugs and tricking Cube into fighting a white supremacist instead. Refocuses all of his anger on Day by challenging him to a fist fight after school. The other hand, plays an intense, possibly psychotic history teacher who isn’t above attacking students with a fire axe.ĭuring the last day of the school year - which inexplicably not only coincides with “Senior Prank Day” but with the faculty forced to re-interview for their jobs after extreme, department-wide budget cuts – Day rats out Cube after he severely disciplines a student.Ĭube, who, at least initially, was planning on “going postal” on the school administration, instead In “Fist Fight” Charlie Day plays a spineless English teacher who allows the students and faculty of a decaying Georgia high school to walk all over him. At times “Fist Fight” feels like it was written by that neighbor who yells at you from their bedroom window because you were standing too close to their nephew’s car. Sass mouth would be reduced significantly if teachers were just allowed to let their fire axes do the talkin’.
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