Balls just out.
Balls of Fury is a comedy based on the great Bruce Lee film, Fists of Fury and the Lee biopick Dragon. The comedy is uneven, the pace slows as some scenes run on without a big joke to finish them.
Dan Fogler does a great job as the washed up ping pong phenom. He can do the physical comedy and his reactions work to get laughs. Christopher Walken is wonderful as always getting more out the material than it deserves just by being Walken. James Hong steals the show as the Master. The old guy can still get a laugh.
Over 20 years ago A Fistful of Yen parody in the Kentucky Fried Movie got all of the comedy from the original in maybe 15 minutes and even that started to drag. The movie should have went beyond the original film and pulled comedy from other sources. They should have looked to Walken?s movies like the Deer Hunter for a start. As is the movie is a C+, it has some laughs and is amusing but not as good as it could have been.