Balls of Fury
| Year: | 2007 |
| Production Co: | Rogue Pictures |
| Director: | Robert Ben Garant |
| Producer: | Robert Ben Garant/Thomas Lennon |
| Writer: | Thomas Lennon |
| Cast: | Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, Maggie Q, James Hong, Jason Scott Lee |
The studio obviously knocked out (yes, that is the right choice of words) a quick script for this second-tier Saturday Night Live-like effort headlined by a face nobody quite recognised yet and produced it on the cheap for a few bucks.
The results is a handful of laughs - including some good ones of Christopher Walken enjoying himself no end - and a loose story as an excuse to hang them together.
A former ping pong prodigy (Fogler, in full Chris Farley mode) hopes to reclaim his former glory by travelling to China to take part in a tournament put on by a authoritarian warlord (Walken). Once there he discovers a gun-running operation that he, various sidekicks and the girl (Q) have to undo, and by the time it's over you've had a few chuckles - don't expect anything more. I did feel sorry though for Jason Scott Lee, who showed such promise and looked like the next big thing back in the days of Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story.