"Best Of The Best" was a very early watch and it's kind of surprising that we haven't seemed to rewatch it since. I actually double checked this blog to make sure I didn't already write a post on it because I hadn't believed that we managed to go almost a full five years without watching it. This one is an old favorite that predates Bad Movie Night. Adam showed Kay this movie around 2009 just for fun. Adam acquired the movie in the first place because Keith bought it for whatever reason a long time ago (he suspects in a dollar bin) and it managed to survive a flood in their basement back when they lived together. This film is a survivor that could not afford to get Survivor to play the theme song, but they still managed to pay James Earl Jones to be there somehow.
The film is about five guys selected to compete against Korea in a full contact martial arts competition. There's Sonny, played by Eric Roberts, who thinks that martial arts in the most important thing in his life (dude has a son) and always has 40% of his chest showing. There's Tommy who's older brother died in a martial arts competition against a Korean guy with an eyepatch and now he must fight the same guy in this competition. He has PTSD flashbacks about his brother's death that distinctly involve dropping his ice cream cone. There's Chris Penn who is mostly just a jerk who doesn't follow rules so we're not sure why they even want him there. Finally there's a dude named Virgil who is a Buddhist and former Italian (?) and some other guy who's from Detroit and won't let you forget it. They are being coached by James Earl Jones who is doing his serious James Earl Jones thing in a movie where it is hilariously out of place. Most of the movie is about these guys training and all the times they (specifically Sonny and Tommy) contemplated quitting because it was too much. In the end, they fight Team Korea and in the final match of Tommy versus his brother's killer, Tommy can't deliver the final blow and Team USA loses. In the end, the Korean team gives them their medals and everyone has a heartfelt moment.
While this film seems like a generic martial arts movie, every two minutes or so you get a melodramatic line read, a confusing direction choice, or a montage and you can't help but laugh. We made so many ice cream related jokes, you guys. Also, there's a scene of James Earl Jones saying a very firm "No." It's the best scene in the movie.
Spoon Rating: 8
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