Spiked with energy and attitude, the nonfiction movie ³Fightville²takes a fast look at a few men who, for pleasure and sometimes profit, like to smack and take down other men while practicing mixed martial arts. Produced, directed and edited by the married couplePetra Epperlein and Michael Tucker (³Gunner Palace²), ³Fightville² gestures toward some promising subjects ‹ men and masculinity, bread and circuses ‹ about which it has surprisingly little to say, despite its washes of spilled blood; its ringside seat at that great, eternal fight known as hope versus desperation; and its occasional quotations from the likes of Nietzsche and Whitman. The increased popularity of M.M.A. is reflected in the uptick of attention paid to it and its practitioners in popular culture, including in movies like Steven Soderbergh¹s thriller ³Haywire² (which stars the female fight sensation Gina Carano) and Gavin O¹Connor¹s under-seen men¹s melodrama ³Warrior²(about two battling brothers, played by Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton, and their punishing problems). In January, MTV started its run of the reality television show³Caged,² about a clutch of young fighters from the Louisiana city of Minden. In the first episode¹s hyperventilated opening minutes someone explains that one of the locals ³made it big time,² as the shot holds on an image of Dustin Poirier, a main character in ³Fightville.²