Nice Try But Uninspiring

Rating: 4/10 (21 January 2019)

12 January 2008. Dan Fogler's first table tennis serve in the movie in a match is one that was illegal. In a way it's the way most of the movie appeared. There was effort that was evident and there were attempts at comedy that were slam shots, some were winners and others were out of bounds, sometimes way out of bounds. Balls of Fury is a mixed bag...at times it did justice to table tennis, other times it really made a mockery of it. Some of the physical gags were funny, some of the lines were creative...yet the editing, the consistency really suffered. It was hard to feel that one was watching quality and instead it was more like watching comedy circuit with special effects and sitting through a practice dry run experiencing both the fun but also the duds. Four out of Ten Stars.