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At one point in Doug Liman’s remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze punch-up, the musclebound Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) growls: ‘No one ever wins a fight.’ Well, that’s not quite true in a bruising, bone-shattering blockbuster that updates the original with some sunny locations and the movie debut of Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor.

Getting back into the same squarejawed shape he managed for (2015), Gyllenhaal’s Dalton is a moody ex-UFC fighter haunted by his past. Sleeping in a car and

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