Powerful

hyped garbage

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I must have missed something because unlike everyone else i thought this was the worst comedy i've seen in years. Danny Mc Bride maybe OK as a supporting character but a leading man he ain't. His brand of comedy always seems forced, he puts himself in awkward situations and then just spouts random rubbish for 30 to 60 secs and that's it. Every character he plays is rude and obnoxious with no redeeming features, That can also be said about everyone else in this film apart from the two kids. Also if your gonna do a film about martial arts it helps if the lead actor can actually do it. Im not talking about the breaking of the blocks, I'm talking about the one real fight scene where everything is filmed in close so as to compensate the actors lack of ability. If i could id give it a 0/10 i would, if i could be bothered i would sort out the spelling and grammar of this comment but i've wasted enough of my time on this rubbish. I can't believe watching this has made me so angry, probably because I bought this thinking it was gonna be good. So who really wins me moaning after the fact or the filmmakers who've just pocketed another 6 quid and will continue to make more dross like this thanks to me.

Anyone who has stepped into a dojo anywhere in the United States in the past 40 years will instantly recognize the Danny McBride character in THE FOOT FIST WAY. When the "kung fu craze" started in the early 1970s (thanks to the importing of hundreds of Chinese martial arts movies- which, unlike the samurai movies that preceded them, gave us heroes who relied on their own physical abilities to resolve disputes), the local dojos where I lived upped enrollment (and monthly fees) and guaranteed students "a black belt in six months!" And the instructors delivered: six months after joining, locals were showing off their new black belts. (The only black belt I've ever met in my life who would've given me pause in a street fight was Joe Lewis, the first full-contact heavyweight karate champion of the world.) Like it or not, THE FOOT FIST WAY happens to be a very accurate look at American martial arts (it's certainly superior to David Mamet's moronic mixed martial arts movie, RED BELT) and, for that reason if no other, rates a look.

I like The foot fist way very much. The reason for this is simple; it's very realistic and human-like. Normally all movies are cool slick Hollywood movies. Where everybody is perfect, and the good guy always gets the beautiful girl in the end and every fight scene lasts 20 minutes,....well not in my life.The main character of The Foot Fist Way is actually very easy to recognize in the first place. Many people ARE like him, and many people probably can identify with the main character. I know I can. Hell, maybe people say I'm a loser for admitting this, but I know my life more resembles 'the foot fist way' than it does 'Casino Royale' or 'Die Hard'.I practice karate, and although this movie is about Tea Kwon Do (these sports are very similar), I can tell you that the exaggerations are real. And there are people out there that are made off no more than hot air.Anyway, the 'crappy' filming makes this movie almost a documentary. And the fact that the actors are so simple, and not famous is very refreshing. I like real life, and I like movies that represent real-life. The Hollywood fairy tales are awful, in my opinion. The pace of the movie is good, and I thought is was short....I was really entertained. And real martial arts isn't as spectacular as we get to see in Hollywood movies, its as crappy as presented in this film. (in the sense of 'normal' people that practice martial arts).In my opinion the producers were successful in creating a funny movie about things in life we all can relate to.

The first act and most of the second are squeamish inducing, unless you find jokes that seem to imply deviant juvenile sex acts humorous. just one weird awkward scene after making me wonder why someone would think this is a good idea to film. I normally would turn something this stupid off, but I was a captured audience. **mild spoiler** Then they go to 'The Truck's' demo in the second act. At the end of Act 2 the movie takes off and is pretty funny trough the end, with a solid plot developing, sort of. I wouldn't watch this again. FYI I love Ricky Gervais and the BBD Office, so I get the self deprecating, awkward but relatable boss guy who takes himself too seriously, etc. but this attempt to that end is lost somehow, as Mr Simmons character isn't mostly harmless like David Brent. in fact he and his friend come off like possible predators.