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Battle B-Boy is a 2012 American dance/martial arts film written and directed by Frank Lin and starring Jonathan Phan, Alison Dahlstrom, Richie Greenfield, Ricky Cole, and Ingel Catindig as five best friends who form a B-Boy dance fighting team who enter competitions to help raise funds for Pham's character's father's medical procedure. The film was released by Cinema Epoch in 2014.

Plot

Mike, Richie, Jay, and Ben are four best friends who are hired to dress in costumes and perform dances for birthday parties. They run into another old friend, Rachel, and are stunned by her appearance. Mike gets a call that his father Sam was in the hospital with heart problems. Mike learns that Sam needs an angioplasty, but Sam cannot afford it. Sam attempts to sell his watch to get some money for the deposit on the procedure. However, after getting the money, three men show up and rob Sam of the money. Mike chases them down and is able to fight them off using a combination of dance and martial arts. This attracts the attention of Jimmy, an old friend of Sam's who then asks if Mike wants to make money.

He introduces Mike to the world of "da-fi", dance fighting. The rules are that it is similar to dance battles only in da-fi, the contact is real rather than imposed. Mike tries it out against an opponent and narrowly beats him. When Sam finds Mike and Jimmy, Sam demands Mike give the money he won back to Jimmy. Sam wants nothing to do with Jimmy and doesn't want Mike going down that road either. The next day, Mike meets up with his friends and tells them about his father. With no other option, Mike calls Jimmy, who takes them on another da-fi contest in which the five would be pitted against one member of a rival team. When Rachel goes up and is knocked down by the opponent, Mike lets his rage get his disqualified. However, Jay, Richie, and Ben, using unorthodox techniques, narrowly beat the more superior opponent. Mike soon realizes they will need Jimmy's help if they plan to succeed. At first, Jimmy refuses but after showing they are serious, Jimmy agrees to train them.

The five friends soon bond stronger through their training with Jimmy and call themselves Random Tactics. As they are set to enter a tournament for $100,000, they get enough money for Sam's angioplasty, but are heartbroken to the learn the procedure failed and Sam will need a quadruple bypass. The team soon find themselves arch-rivals in Typhoon Crew, a very superior da-fi team led by the very devious Vilin. Nevertheless, at a party that night where the team celebrates that they have made it to the finals, Mike and Rachel realize their feelings for each other while Ben finds a love interest in Kelly, a woman he competed against in an earlier battle. However, Vilin's team shows up to ruin the fun and start an impromptu fight to show their superiority. Even worse, Mike gets a call and learns that his father had died from complications during the surgery. At first, Mike decides there is no point in showing up for the finals despite pleas from his friends. However, on the day of the final, Mike shows up, telling them they didn't let him down in his time of need so he shouldn't let them down in their time of need.

In the final da-fi competition, Random Tactics take on Vilin's team in a point system where knockdowns earn points for the team. All but Vilin and apparently Mike are left but Vilin knocks out Mike. However, Richie, who wasn't knocked out of the competition, shows up and puts Vilin in a chokehold, slowly making him unconscious and puts him to sleep. Random Tactics win the competition. Richie, who had been estranged from his father, finally reunites with him and Jay, who felt he had to become overprotective of his disabled sister, makes up with her and promises to be not as protective. Mike and Rachel continue their relationship as does Ben and Kelly.

Cast

Reception

The movie gained mostly positive reviews amongst IMDb users as well as blog sites such as Film Combat Syndicate^[1] and World Film Geek^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Film of the Week: Battle B-Boy (2012)|url=http://filmcombatsyndicate.blogspot.com/2013/08/film-of-week-battle-b-boy-2012.html|accessdate=December 13, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=REVIEW: Battle B-Boy (2012)|url=https://worldfilmgeek.com/2015/07/20/review-battle-b-boy-2012/|accessdate=December 13, 2016}}

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