![]() ![]() AISHA TYLER plays Feng's Amazonian and cleavage-revealing enforcer who dispatches those her boss no longer favors by shooting blow darts into their necks.Ĭurious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit?.JASON SCOTT LEE plays a local tough guy who doesn't like Wong and Maggie training a non-Chinese ping-pong player such as Randy.DIEDRICH BADER plays a male sex slave who's assigned to pleasure Randy, but the latter doesn't give him that chance.ROBERT PATRICK plays Randy's dad in the past who bets on his son's chances in the Olympics.THOMAS LENNON plays the conceited and outspoken, former Olympic champion who defeated Randy long ago and plans to do the same again.MAGGIE Q plays his attractive niece who falls for Randy and can hold her own both in ping-pong and while battling others via martial arts.JAMES HONG plays the blind ping-pong master who reluctantly agrees to train Randy.He briefly gets to act out some of his fantasy while undercover and trying to nab Feng. GEORGE LOPEZ plays the FBI agent who recruits Randy but longs for an FBI career that's more of the stuff seen in movies than his usual office work. ![]() He briefly uses some profanity and briefly smokes. He operates a gun-running business from his lair, and has various people killed when they don't live up to his expectations. CHRISTOPHER WALKEN plays the flamboyant if lethal head of a Chinese crime family with a love for ping-pong.A bit full of himself and prone to occasional outrageous outbursts and behavior, he uses some profanity. He reluctantly agrees to the FBI's plan, and ends up falling for Maggie as he trains with her and her uncle. DAN FOGLER plays a former Olympic ping-pong competitor, now a low-end, washed up, Vegas style variety act.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For crude and sex-related humor, and for language. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Those looking for a goofy comedy might be interested, as might fans of "Reno 911" (some of the same people are involved with this film). With the competition literally being sudden death, Randy does his best to win and thus stay alive, all while Ernie tries to figure out what Feng is up to, and decide when to call in reinforcements. There, he must not only contend with Feng's Amazonian muscle, Mahogany (AISHA TYLER), and one of his male sex slaves, Gary (DIEDRICH BADER), but also an array of talented competitors, including Wolfschtagg. That doesn't sit well with traditional-minded locals such as Siu-Foo (JASON SCOTT LEE), but Randy eventually gets up to speed and makes it into Feng's secret lair, with Wong and Ernie in tow. He doesn't normally train non-Chinese, but since Feng also murdered his brother, Wong and his young adult niece, Maggie (MAGGIE Q), take it upon themselves to get Randy in competition form. Since Randy's more than a bit rusty, however, Ernie brings him to Master Wong (JAMES HONG), the blind former ping-pong mentor to Feng. Since Feng is obsessed with ping-pong, Ernie figures that if they can get Randy invited to one of his top-secret tournaments, they'll be able to get their man. It seems that the Feds are looking to bring down Feng (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN), the leader of a Chinese crime family who was also responsible for Pete's murder in the past. Thus, he's surprised when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez (GEORGE LOPEZ) wants to recruit him to play again. Now 19 years later, Randy (DAN FOGLER) has been relegated to doing ping-pong tricks in a low-class, Vegas-style variety show. Pete Daytona (ROBERT PATRICK), who placed bets on his boy with Chinese criminals. Yet, when he lost to East German champion Karl Wolfschtagg (THOMAS LENNON), he unknowingly sealed the fate of his father, Sgt. PLOT: Back in the 1988 Olympics, young Randy Daytona was the hottest thing in the sport of ping-pong. QUICK TAKE: Comedy: A former child ping-pong prodigy is recruited by the FBI to lead them to a mysterious crime figure with an obsession for the sport. (2007) (Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken) (PG-13) ![]()
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