Balls of Fury (2007)
Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.
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The greatest movie ever made..!
good back-story, and good acting
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Humor is subjective, but to me this movie is both fun and funny. Not to mention a great tribute/parody on the karate flicks, primarily Enter the Dragon, that it mimics. I often use it to lighten a bad mood.I think part of the reason it's rated so low is that a lot of viewers may not be familiar with the old-school martial arts films and not get the premise, and/or the references. If you don't, I can imagine a lot of the humor whizzing right past you.Let's put it another way. If you don't think the idea of a ping-pong underworld and ping-pong death matches is funny, you may not like the movie. If you do, watch. I think Dan Fogler is brilliant, as are nearly all the bit players.It's over the top, but in a friendly sort of fashion. Don't dismiss it because of the low rating.
"Balls of Fury" is a poor, obvious comedy notable only for starring Christopher Walken as a....as a what? A mixed race, Manchurian, mafia, robot-loving super villain with a fetish for ping-pong? The film's a comedic take on Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", but its jokes are mostly all dated. Even by the standards of similarly trashy "sports comedies" like "Dodgeball", "Blades of Glory" and "Semi Pro", "Balls of Fury" is weak. The film stars actress Maggie Q, who is some kind of statistical anomaly: a Vietnamese, Hawaian, Polish, American Irish woman. That's what the Q stands for. Quirky.According to IMDb stats, females under 18 adore this film. Must be all the balls.5/10 – Worth no viewings.
Balls of Fury seemed like a clever idea; take all the clichés from martial arts b-movies and apply them to ping-pong. Unfortunately, this flick doesn't deliver on its promising premise. First from seeing the trailer, I didn't know what to expect but it looked alright. This film wasn't be taken serious but just silly and comedic. There are some jokes there but some also childish acts. Most of the jokes are toilet jokes, jokes involving the blind man. It was surprising to see Christopher Waken in this. Though he was pretty god as the villain. He's a natural; his timing is terrific and he makes nearly everything he says worth a giggle or two in "Balls." Without him, there wouldn't be much to write about this movie at all. It could have been much better but it was pretty okay imo
this is not a great movie by any means.but it is a movie that takes ping pong(or table tennis)to the next level.the spoof level,that is. as far as i know this is the first spoof that's been made about the game.there are some chuckles here,but no real big laughs.it's sort of like "Karate Kid" but with Ping Pong.and obviously done with tongue firmly planted in cheek.it's fast paced,and has lots of action.Christopher Walken is the highlight of course,though we have to wait quite awhile to see him.you won't likely be bored while watching this flick.but i wouldn't expect anything resembling comedy of the fast and furious variety.for me,Balls of Fury is a 5/10