Damage (2009)

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

Director:

Jeff King

Writer:

Frank Hannah

Stars:

Steve Austin, Walton Goggins, Laura Vandervoort

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steve Austin	...	John Brickner
Walton Goggins	...	Reno Paulsaint
Laura Vandervoort	...	Frankie
Donnelly Rhodes	...	Deacon
Joe Costa	...	Trini Ogoun
Lynda Boyd	...	Veronica
Scott McNeil	...	Chip
Clifton MaCabe Murray	...	Rich Guy #1 (as Clifton Murray)
Giles Panton	...	Rich Guy #2
Paul Jarrett	...	Parole Officer
Eric Keenleyside	...	Val Sullivan
Christina Jastrzembska	...	Margaret
Tony Bailey	...	Wendell Timmons
Katelyn Mager	...	Sarah
Stephen E. Miller	...	Dewey Infantino (as Stephen Miller)

Storyline

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

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Plot Keywords:

cage | f word | hero | bare knuckle fighting | combat | 

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Taglines:

Fight hard to survive.

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 October 2010 (South Africa)

Also Known As:

Agonas horis eleos

Filming Locations:

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nasser Group, North, Insight Film Studios, NGN Fighter Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Real fighters were hired as jobbers to make the fighting sequences more realistic.

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Goofs

After John saves his bosses life with CPR, the paramedic tells John that his big hands cracked 7 ribs. Without an X-ray of the bosses chest the paramedic would have no way of knowing if any of his ribs are cracked.

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Quotes

John Brickner: What you know about me could fit in the crack of my ass?

User Reviews

Austin + AWOL = Damage

In his second leading movie role, former WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin plays John Brickner, an ex-convict whose attempts to live a quiet life on the outside are thrown into jeopardy when he is forced into the shadowy world of illegal fighting. Though his acting skills are somewhat limited, Austin is perfectly adequate as the star of this low-key action drama; just don't expect anything groundbreaking from the execution or basic set-up. Like Austin's previous vehicle (WWE Films' The Condemned), this basically just adheres to an established action movie template (this time the 'inspiration' is the old Jean-Claude Van Damme effort AWOL), and goes through the motions of its familiar plot in an unfussy and unsurprising way. The direction is unspectacular, the fight scenes efficient but not particularly brutal, and the final result is a film that is nowhere near bad enough to despise, but nowhere near good enough to be memorable. The supporting performances are largely anonymous, though Walton Goggins (sporting the same ghastly brown leather jacket he wore as Shane Vendrell across all seven seasons of The Shield) makes the best of a badly-written part as Brickner's debt-ridden manager.