In the unsanctioned, underground, and unhinged world of extreme Ping-Pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly. Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenom Randy Daytona is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's killer – one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng. But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own. He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind Ping-Pong sage and restaurateur Wong, and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie, both of whom also have a dark history with Feng. All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique Ping-Pong tournaments ever staged. There, Randy faces such formidable players as his long-ago Olympics opponent, the still-vicious Karl Wolfschtagg. Can Randy keep his eye on the ball? Will he achieve the redemption he craves while wielding a paddle? Is his backhand strong enough to triumph over rampant wickedness?
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sport
Runtime: 90 minutes
Rating: 5.1/10 (16,944 votes)
Release Date: 29 August 2007
Country: USA
Languages: English, Mandarin
Company: Rogue Pictures
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for crude and sex-related humor, and for language.
Director(s): Robert Ben Garant
Producer(s):
Gary Barber – producer
Roger Birnbaum – producer
Derek Evans – executive producer
Jonathan Glickman – producer
Thomas Lennon – producer
Ron Schmidt – executive producer
Writer(s):
Thomas Lennon – (written by) &
Robert Ben Garant – (written by)
Cast:
Dan Fogler – Randy Daytona
Christopher Walken – Feng
George Lopez – Rodriguez
Maggie Q – Maggie
James Hong – Wong
Terry Crews – Freddy
Robert Patrick – Sgt. Pete Daytona
Diedrich Bader – Gary
Aisha Tyler – Mahogany
Thomas Lennon – Karl Wolfschtagg
Music: Randy Edelman
Tagline: A huge comedy with tiny balls
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I give this film only 2 stars. If you enjoyed it, you are among themillions of Americans dumbing our country down.
I gave it a 3, due to me being generous. I "knew", if people were goingto talk trash about The Comebacks and Meet The Spartans; that thismovie would get above a 4.
Plain and simple, maybe boring, overly rated movies, or people "with 0laughter in their blood" rate good movies, badly.
Christopher Walken are you that broke? Did the wife say, we don't haveenough money in the bank and take any given role?
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This is the "truth", not an opinion.