Steven Segal, Jean-Claude Van Damme... scoot over, these are the new standards in martial arts films... I had rarely (if ever) seen martial arts films that were cunning and funny, and yet approaching from such different angles. Maybe Jackie Chan has a great personality but his movies are still your traditional "fight-warrior" style with a little bit of slapstick.
The Foot Fist Way can be reached through different formulas:
George Constanza goes Steven Segal
Napoleon Dinamyte (Rent it, watch it, rate it and keep it) turned Bruce Lee...
Tae-Kwon-Do Fatboy, Tae-Kwon-Do. As in Run Fatboy Run (buy it)
Kung-Fu Panda (rent it) Un-Animated
The Karate Kid 20 years later... a documentary of sorts.
The Foot Fist Way uses an old formula, put together in the tackiest form, therefore, making it work in a really funny way. You've got your common character (ferrari-driving non-the-less), striving to save his love life. You've got the big, larger-than-life figure that may come into play in an ordinary "The Wrestler" kind of way, you've got the pupil, the new love interest, and most of all... the discipline that holds the art together, which will guide you through the story... For a quick laugh, try The Foot Fist Way, I rate this one a Rent it.
Finishing the Game, as I've mentioned before, is a completely different approach to Martial Arts. It's a Mockumentary about trying to finish Bruce Lee's last movie, called, if I'm not mistaken, The Game of Death, which he was filming when he died in 1973; therefore, having its good dose of insight into the seventies film culture which include the Jewish Producer and Ron Jeremy.
This movie is in the style of This is Spinal Tap (buy it) and Borat (buy it). For a light-hearted movie night that will give Chuck Norris a run for his money.... Rent both of these movies and watch them back to back; martial-arts have reached a completely new level!
