At least for the next 19 years, when FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez) seeks him out. Turns out the man named Feng hosts secret to-the-death matches in Ping-Pong. Rodriguez is out to 86 Feng's business once and for all, with Randy's help. Rodriguez takes Randy to a tournament at an elementary school so that Randy can begin working his way up to be in Feng's game, allowing the FBI to finally catch him. Randy realizes soon enough that he is dangerously out of practice to being playing in tournaments.

We are then introduced to Wong (James Hong), a blind restaurateur who knows a thing or two about table tennis and has helped several people become experts, even the notorious Feng. Randy is taken under Wong's wing, as well as his niece Maggie who is also skilled in the art of Ping-Pong. Through the teaching of Wong and his budding relationship with Maggie, Randy finally gets back into his element enough to up against “The Dragon,” the most worthy opponent of any Ping-Pong player. Randy wins against the Dragon, who turns out to be a little girl, and is then given the golden paddle, the invitation to Feng's tournament.

After a few humorous scenes of the travel to get to the tournament, there is the welcoming of Feng (Christopher Walken) to the movie, a reunion with Karl from "88, and a match against Maggie. At the end of the movie, Randy has to defeat Feng and his men and avenge his father"s death, while helping the FBI shut down Feng once and for all.

Out of 4 stars, I give “Balls of Fury” a 2. Even though the movie had a decent story line, the advertisement it gave for being a “Huge Comedy” as suggested by the movie poster was in vain as the movie really wasn't that funny. Even with Christopher Walken, the movie still flopped, and that's saying something.

Despite a few scenes in the beginning, Wong's frequent antics, and a pretty climatic ending, “Fury” didn't have me rolling on the floor; it nearly had me waiting on the door.

Settling down and waiting to laugh to tears, I found myself after a short period of time regretting I hadn't chosen to see “Departed” instead. I wasn't laughing like I normally do at his routines. He wasn't that funny, and I thought to myself, “they must have picked the only two or three jokes out of the movie and put them in the trailer!” Having paid the money, I settled in for a long, slow ride.

Robin Williams plays a character by the name of “Tom Dobbs”, a television personality who does comedy news in the vein of Jon Stewart. Before each taping of his show, he goes out and warms up the audience. It is during one such warm up that an audience member asks a question: “why don't YOU run for president?” So he does.

I really enjoy Christopher Walken because he always picks great characters to portray that stretch and invariably adds to his acting repertoire. In this script, he plays the manager of “Tom Dobbs” (Williams), and shifts between a manager and a presidential hopeful's coach. About halfway through the movie, his character is sent to the hospital and remains wheelchair bound for the remainder of the plot. There seemed to be no reason to write that plot line in because it added nothing to the overall script. With this strange plot line, Walken's performance sadly deteriorates from entertaining to not credible.

“Tom Dobbs” (Williams) wants desperately to be considered a viable candidate, so he holds back on his comedy routines through a good portion of the script. This strategy earns him a spot in the main televised debate with the Democratic and Republican challengers. During the debate, “Tom Dobbs” lets loose his style of humorous political commentary that got him tapped to run by a member of his television audience. It is also the funniest scene in the entire movie, which is used for the trailer.

The movie has twists and turns, and does take up an interesting issue that no one in reality wants to address: the Diebold voting machines that have been proven to be easily hacked. In the case of the movie, the company with the bad software is called “Delacroy”. The owners of Delacroy (who are making a fortune) go on the defensive when a software designer discovers a glitch in the program that makes “Tom Dobbs” the president-elect. All scandals need a fall guy, and the female programmer predictably demonized and made out to be a drug addict. This part of the plot was unfortunately done over the top and wasn't credible. If they had toned it down a little bit, then it would've played better.

In the end, the programmer tells “Tom Dobbs” he's not the president and he has to figure out inside his own soul what he should do. Even his own team members try to discredit the programmer based on the information they have been fed to him.

In the end, he comes out and tells the world the software glitch has made him president on a performance of “Saturday Night Live”. The movie closes with various magazine covers showing “Tom Dobbs” to be the “Man of the Year” for having stepped down.

My advice? Save your money and wait until this comes out on your cable channels. Other than a few passing lines here and there, it isn't worth the ticket price.

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