Being a filmmaker myself, I have an affection for directors who gather all the money they can and just go for it. But the humor is not consistent enough for me to fully recommend this.
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10/24/08
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The Foot Fist Way (2008)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:44
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The rough edges and biting humor of this martial arts comedy will keep audiences laughing and cringing in turns.
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10/18/08
Watching the movie, even when it's not working -- which is a lot of the time -- one doesn't tire of McBride.
10/18/08
Watchable mockumentary with strong performances, but it's not as funny as it should have been and is ultimately both depressing and uncomfortable to sit through.
10/18/08
Has an irresistible charm and infectious energy.
10/18/08
This is a really small film, shot in 19 days, and it's a little rough around the edges, but it's got a huge comic heart that's undeniable.
10/18/08
The blatant, inarticulate idiocy of McBride's Simmons is, in a certain way, endearing.
10/18/08
It’s almost funny, or theoretically funny. It’s just not actually funny.
10/18/08
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10/01/08
But the annoying McBride often resorts to foul-mouthed tirades and so lacks Ricky Gervais’s warmth.
09/26/08
When it works, The Foot Fist Way is among the most painfully funny comedies of the year. Alas, there’s just as much here that doesn’t quite hit home, making for a lot of dead air between the gags.
09/26/08
Cut from the same cringe-inducing cloth as The Office and Napoleon Dynamite, this low-budget comedy about a clueless Tae Kwan Do tutor punches, chops and karate-kicks above its weight.
09/26/08
This could have been The Karate Kid done as The Office, but in the end drops to its knees as The Flat-Foot Ham-Fisted Way.
09/26/08
From a bunch of minor Judd Apatow protégés, a dispiriting low-budget series of witless, misogynistic sketches masquerading as comedy.
09/26/08
Shot on video, more vérité than mockumentary in style, Foot Fist shames bigger-budgeted fare with its gags-to-bucks ratio.
09/26/08
The comedy is of the kind that makes you wince rather than laugh; the camerawork is defiantly ugly and the performances are unpolished.
09/26/08
A funny showcase for rising star Danny McBride, if not quite the second comedy coming it's being marketed as.
09/26/08
While most of the deadpan remarks hit the spot, the erratic sketch-like editing and overall slapdash structure give it an air of incompleteness. Fun in parts, slipshod in others.
09/26/08
A striking low-budget debut that manages to combine deadpan one-liners, pathos, physical comedy and fighting stars.
09/26/08
...there is no way of my getting around saying how badly amateurish the film is and how prosaic it can be.
09/23/08
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