The Foot Fist Way sends up the sporting life, while Son of Rambow gives a sly take on Stallone.
By
Edmund Mullins
April 21, 2008
Hilarious, hard-edged, and surprisingly dark, The Foot Fist Way is a breed of sports comedy unlike any other. On the surface, it looks deceptively like a poor man’s Will Ferrell vehicle, chronicling the predictable fall and rise of a delusional half-wit. But The Foot Fist Way is distinguished by an unusually genuine concern for notions of honor, and a scabrous humor that is miles away from conventional studio fare.
The idea must have sounded great on paper: World’s greatest rock band meets world’s greatest director! And indeed, the combined talents of the Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese should make for a sublimely entertaining concert film. But Shine A Light is instead tedious stuff, like watching someone’s hundred millionth victory lap.
