Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Livestonth
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
TownRootGuy
This show is just a little bit silly. If silly is not your thing, then this is not your thing. Unless your thing is that you have a thing for Maggie Q, then this IS your thing. This movie has ... almost nothing except mind-blowing eye candy, an outstanding cast AND a flurry of fast flying funny. This is meant to be a spoof. This is meant to be silly. They deliver exactly what you should expect PLUS Maggie Q in some very titillating outfits! If you watch this in spite of the title and you don't like it, that's on you. WTF were you expecting, Hamlet? The only ding I give this show is for having yet another Walken impersonator - and he's not even very good... I can watch this every 2 - 3 years.
Python Hyena
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
Floated2
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
Neil Welch
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.
