Balls of Fury

Of all the sports that man plays, ping pong is not the one that most people would choose to see an action film about, but making it into a comedy would seem to fit perfectly. But unfortunately even mixing in some martial arts and flawless special effects your left with a bad taste in your mouth after watching this film. Out of all the roles in this story Christopher Walken as the evil Feng is by far the best, but one actor can't carry a whole story even the great Walken himself.
A world class ping pong player is invited to a mysterious island to compete in a win or die competition. The story itself is to slow and dry to keep the attention of an intelligent audience, and the jokes that are good are so few and far between that the movie seems to drag on even longer. Some of the effects that are used to perform the unusual ping pong moves and stunts are very well done, and at times entertaining, but as soon as the story picks up again everything slows down to a crawl.
Seeing Walken in a comedy role is worth watching the film, if you're a Walken fan, but other than that the story tries to hard to force the comedy bits and most of them fall flat. Even with the obvious parodies of the Mortal Kombat films and the great martial arts film Enter the Dragon, this film doesn't have enough things going for to be watched with enthusiasm.