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To me, this movie is perfection.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

While not the most clever film out there, it did make me chuckle a few times. Let's talk about the good aspects of this film.The good: The jokes at times are pretty dang funny to say the least. I didn't laugh a whole lot, probably cause I personally find films funny when I'm watching it with other people. The plot is kind of cliché, but there is some intelligence when these clichés are used. My fave character is probably Master Feng. Nothing else, he's just my favorite, he's just a fun character. The bad: The film overall is kind of unoriginal. You've got the forced relationship, the "dramatic" backstory and the plot. The plot of this movie is that this guy Randy Daytona needs to get into this underground ping pong tournament run by this guy Master Feng. But the jokes are kind of off sometimes. Like the scene where they're going on about a character named "The Dragon" but the Dragon isn't a big macho dude, she's actually a little kid. The delivery in this scene is just so off. The problem with this is that when she loses, she just gives Randy a punch in the waist. She doesn't get angry, pick him up and throw him across the room. That would give him a reason to feel intimidated by a little child and earn the title of "the Dragon". You can't call a child character intimidating just to call them intimidating. Beyond that, the characters are thinner than paper.The End Result: An okay film at best. Although, it could've been so much more than a typical "game to the death" plot

Balls of Fury (2007): Dir: Robert Ben Garant / Cast: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong: One joke comedy about smaller factors conquering the masses. Dan Fogler plays a washed out ping-pong player recruited by FBI to go undercover at a ping-pong tournament in order to bring down his father's murderer. Funny setup becomes repetitious and perhaps too carefree in the third act. Director Robert Ben Garant throws in every martial arts joke he can but his biggest aid is the mock production that add both look and satire appeal. Fogler loses his passion only to find it again. He aims to avenge his father's death but becomes embarked upon many amusing training sessions that often place him in pain. To say that he wins the tournament and avenges his father is obvious. What works is Christopher Walken who is terrific as the underground tyrant out to create fatal tournaments for pleasure not realizing that his past is catching up to him. George Lopez as an FBI agent is a great idea but the role is pretty routine. Maggie Q plays the daughter of Fogler's blind trainer, which is to say that her existence is purely as a sexual tease with predictable results. James Hong provides much amusement as Fogler's trainer of sort, whose methods provide some of the best laughs. Well made satire of martial arts films using a harmless sport to more devastating results. Score: 6 ½ / 10

Don't choose a movie by looking at the cast list! Can't really believe that this was a serious attempt at making a movie and the sad thing is the amount of good that could have been done in the world with the money that was wasted making this tripe. It has no redeeming features.BTW. No problem with not writing a spoiler for this one as I never got to the end.This is the first review I have written as I am only starting to use IMCb, an excellent resource badly let down by reviews that could rate this movie so highly.Regards

A cross between Enter The Dragon, the Karate Kid movies, and the Bruce Lee story, only with ping pong as the central martial art.The main character is Dan Fogler - not someone I was familiar and, as a dumpy fellow with a humorous but unattractive haircut, not the likeliest of protagonists - and he plays a loser with hidden strengths very well. The supporting cast is fabulous, starting with Christopher Walken having an absolute ball, and carrying on with James Hong, Maggie Q, George Lopez, Jason Scott Lee and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.The movie is completely daft, amusing throughout (though not particularly hilarious) and passes an amiable hour and a half. It is never going to win any prizes, but I enjoyed it and didn't feel I had wasted my time.