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Ping-pong parody is a real stinker

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Ther are some passable gags in this silly comedy about a table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler from Good Luck Chuck) who is assigned by the FBI to infiltrate a ping-pong contest run by crime boss Christopher Walken. But not nearly enough.

In fact, this is a horrendously written and acted movie which even Walken can't save. Maggie Q, George Lopez and James Hong certainly can't, either. And the running gag about blindness is just impermissible.

Balls Of Fury
Cert: 12A

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