A mainstream comedy with a mainstreaming Ferrell

Rating: 5/10 (24 September 2007)

BLADES OF GLORY is funnier than Talladega Nights, but still there is no way of avoiding the fact that our friend Will Ferrell is getting more and more mainstreamed, falling more into the fate that Jim Carrey did back in the 90ties. The movie has got a funny plot, with two complete opposite contenders there's obvious that there will be some funny moments, but mostly because of Ferrell keeping the small amount of originality he's still got left. Ferrell was glorious in Anchorman, but his career seems very downhill as he obviously performed better as a supporting actor than a leading role. BLADES OF GLORY could surely have been much better, and there's a lot of things failing, but still I couldn't avoid being happily surprised with the final finish as I had very low expectations to his movie. Some bits are great and some bits are rather sad, so you're left with a very 50% movie experience and again, we beg and hope for Ferrell making a better movie next time.