This is a martial arts melodrama about honorable L.A. jujitsu master Mike Terry (the intense and charismatic Chiwetel Ejiofor), who enters the shady world of prizefighting to settle his wife (Alice Braga)'s loan-shark debt. Despite Ejiofor's powerful performance and the stellar cast (Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen,
Joe Mantegna), Redbelt plays like a generic Chuck Norris action flick — and writer-director David Mamet's famous clipped dialogue is no help. To DVD, chop-chop!