Within the first 15 seconds of this trailer, you learn nearly that many things: There's a fight; Pay-Per-View is pulling back on promoting it; tickets aren't selling; Tim Allen's here; so is Joe Mantegna; and a couple of other semi-recognizable types. And then we find out it's a David Mamet film and all of the rest of it starts to make sense. Actually, it continues to not make sense, but now we at least know why it doesn't make sense: Mamet films are not easy to trailerize. It appears the star of the film is Serenity bad guy Chiwetel Ejiofor. He's a fight trainer, who's hard-up. We hear his fight instructions played over his own sorry existence. His rent check bounced as he says "There's always an escape." He gets in a bar fight with Tim Allen as he says, "Put the other guy down." Turns out Tim Allen is a movie star and calls Chiwetel in for a chat. Chiwetel gives his cool idea about fighting with an arm tied up to Tim and Joe, who take the idea and run. Chiwetel sues, using hotshot Emily Mortimer as his attorney. But it's still building, building, building to Chiwetel showing up at their fight to expose them, and take them down. As they try to stop him he says, "There is no situation you cannot escape." Which probably means he's going to fight. Maybe even with one arm tied. But I'm guessing he's still going to beat the slimy older guys.
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