The Bad Penny (2011)
1/10
Throw In The Towel
16 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The start credits try to come hard like they mean business in the style of "Seven." We're introduced to washed up arm wrestler John Grizzly, who's trapped between the legs of a prostitute. He only lasts for 10 seconds then reflects upon his super tent fight days when he could last longer in the ring than inside of a woman.

Is that Scarface?

The movie's about a rigged boxing match and gambling corruption with a lot of swearing thrown in for good measure.

Grizzly throws a fight, hunts down Tom Arnold, belts the tripe out him, and releases Tom Petty, or John Carpenter, who's being held captive like in "Kickboxer," then absconds overseas to Thailand in search of Xian to train him in the ancient grain waves of junk food. Nah, I just made that last part up as I'm snacking on cheese and chive grain wave crackers.

This looks like an indie movie at times and I don't believe for one second that Tom Arnold can convince as a bad guy.

Some lady boy shows up, with a Jeffrey Dahmer polaroid camera, taking happy snaps of Cotton Weary. What that's got to do with John Grizzly, I dunno know, as the movie keeps cutting back-and-forth between Cotton Weary and Jackson from "Bloodsport." The lady boy, with the Dahmer camera, has crooked teeth like disorganised bowling pins.

Nothing can save this movie. Camera work's sloppy, storyline's disjointed like the bowling pin teeth. This isn't what I was looking for tonight. I thought this was gonna be about a serial killer.

As if I'm not confused enough already, Ben Affleck shows up, sporting a Carolina Panthers tattoo, smacking some mother around, she backhands him with a cooking pan then proceeds to blow her brains out and Affleck follows suit as Carolina are such a lousy football team this day and age with, or without, Cam Newton. This scene adds nothing to the storyline.

"The Gene Generations" Bai Ling shows up typically being stereotype cast as Asian street meat for sale. She introduces Cotton Weary to what they call 'chasing the dragon,' and it's all downhill from there for his character.

The movie doesn't improve. Actually, I've turned into a corpse in disbelief.

Two idiots blow each other away at the end and leave you scratching your head and wondering why you forked out over thirty bucks for this DVD.

All I've watched lately is one dud after another. Nothing's good.

Waste of time.
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