You wanna know what it's like to play an illegal version of a sport? Then this probably isn't the movie for you.

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2017)

While not the most clever film out there, it did make me chuckle a few times. Let's talk about the good aspects of this film.
The good: The jokes at times are pretty dang funny to say the least. I didn't laugh a whole lot, probably cause I personally find films funny when I'm watching it with other people. The plot is kind of cliché, but there is some intelligence when these clichés are used. My fave character is probably Master Feng. Nothing else, he's just my favorite, he's just a fun character.
The bad: The film overall is kind of unoriginal. You've got the forced relationship, the "dramatic" backstory and the plot. The plot of this movie is that this guy Randy Daytona needs to get into this underground ping pong tournament run by this guy Master Feng. But the jokes are kind of off sometimes. Like the scene where they're going on about a character named "The Dragon" but the Dragon isn't a big macho dude, she's actually a little kid. The delivery in this scene is just so off. The problem with this is that when she loses, she just gives Randy a punch in the waist. She doesn't get angry, pick him up and throw him across the room. That would give him a reason to feel intimidated by a little child and earn the title of "the Dragon". You can't call a child character intimidating just to call them intimidating. Beyond that, the characters are thinner than paper.
The End Result: An okay film at best. Although, it could've been so much more than a typical "game to the death" plot