FireBall

Movie
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Tai played by Bank Clash is an ex-con who after being released from jailed got into more trouble because of some illegal underground streetball dealing known as Fireball put his twin brother Tan into a coma. His brother got involved in the illegal activities because he was trying to make enough money to bail Tai out of jail. Feeling guilty for being the cause, Tai decided to join one of the team owned by Hia Den under the disguise of his brother in order to investigate what happened. Tai learned the rules of Fireball and the rules are: there are no rules. You can kick, punch, cripple, or even kill. If someone is down, you can not substitute. There are no bench players. Who you start with are who you will finish with, sometime literally.

After his first match, a young man, Than, approach Tai thinking he was Tan, asked him how did he survive since he thought Tan was defeated by his feet. Tai was so angry that he attacked Tan. Oh wait there is a rule to Fireball, and that is you can not attack any of the basketball members outside the court or else you will be assassinated. Tai was luckily saved by his coach. His coach told him that whatever resentment or grudge for the guy, save it for the court. Inside the court he can do anything, but outside he can’t. If he want to seek revenge, he must reach the championship since the guy was also last year’s Fireball’s winner. Tai finally found the guy who may had put his brother in a coma. Time for revenge.

In the middle of one game, one of his teammate died because the other team brought in weapons. Tai was so distraught and angered that he killed the guy who killed his teammate. After the tragedy, the team played harder and rougher but to no avail. Meuk, one of their teammate tried to sell the game. He wanted to leave the team, get out completely so that he can take care of his family and raise his unborn child properly. It didn’t work, the team won but that did not make the fans happy. They were so angry for the betrayal that they killed Meuk. Tai was once again distraught that he asked to quit the team but then when he found Pang trying to prostitute herself to pay off debts that Tan created by losing last year’s game as well as Tai for leaving the team, he was forced to go back and play. Tai also found himself in another predicament, he fell in love with his twin’s girlfriend.

Tai found out that Tan, Than, and another guy was on the same team and they sold out their own team in order to make money to get Tai out of jail. They bet with an outside ringer that their team would lose. However Tan was betrayed by Than cus Than did not trust Tan to follow through and so he decided to kill him.

The final game finally came and they were down to 3 players. Tai now faces the bastard who took his brother’s life. Than stabbed Tai but Tai was able to kill Than with the hoop.

One brother’s life for another, as Tai drop to the floor, Tan woke up from his coma. He woke up with a vengeance and seek to kill all the leaders involved not by streetball but by old fashion bullets.

In my own words:

I was fairly surprised by this movie. I didn’t think that I was actually going to enjoy it but then again how could I not? I mean like seriously it’s BANK CLASH! The love of my life! The hottest guy on the face of this earth! Plus his last one was great too lol I have the dvds upstair. The s is not a typo lol. I have one just to keep and the other one to watch. Hey it’s clash alright! lol. But anyways, the thing I like about this movie is the action. The thing I don’t like about it is that there’s too much fighting and not enough basketball. Yes I understand that this is supposed to be a hardcore streetball but at least show that it’s a streetball and not just a bunch of guys getting together to brawl! I think each game score was probably um 1-0! GRRRR!!!! I mean like Hot Shot, that was good streetball mix with martial arts. At least when Kane physically hurt the other team players, he also show some streetball skills.

And omg that love scene was like grrrrr!! lol just kidding!! I was freaken jealous! My gosh I wonder if his gf was jealous too. lol. But then again maybe not cus she probably does that herself every freaken day with him. The girl got 1 scene, she got it every day! omg jealous again! Well whatever. You know, she kinda looks like his gf anyways. Anyways back to Pang and Tai, so does Pang really love Tai or does she love the image that looks like Tan? Who knows! With that image how can you NOT fall in love with him? haha ok ok there I go again.

The final scenes had better moves, you see more of the ball lol. The water scene was cool too. And omg was it gruesome! Definitely not rated pg 13.

My rating: 4.5/5

(biased huh? hahaha)

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