China Salesman (2017) Reviews

• Not what I expected

  raiviskomelevs-266-6699812018-06-10

  It's really really bad. Turn off the TV in the middle of the movie bad. They got my attention with Tyson vs Seagal match, but they're in such a minor roles. Tyson looked like CGI and Seagal looked like a human wearing mask of Steven Seagal. They had a fight in first half an hour (maybe again later but i could not watch). I loved the idea of boxer vs aikido, but the execution was awful. Don't spend your money on it.

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• Not an epic

  deannie-989832018-10-01

  I did enjoy this movie. Not a classic but when you have Steven Seagall & Mike Tyson in a movie just hard to resist. The acting was wooden and the plot nonsense, the editing confusing but not the worst movie I have ever seen...

• WHAT THE...

  kirbylee70-599-5261792018-08-20

  The artwork for this film made me interested. I mean here we have a picture of not just famed boxing legend Mike Tyson to look at but action star Steven Segal as well. A movie with the pair in it? Potentially facing off against one another? Sign me up! The movie arrives, I pop it in the machine and low and behold within the first 20 minutes or so the clash takes place. And...that's about it. A few minutes of the two going at it mano a mano and then we're left with the rest of the movie to deal with. And it's bad. Really bad. I went back after watching about half of the film and read some reviews others had posted elsewhere. Had I done so prior to starting the film I might never have watched it. Everything stated in those reviews ended up being dead on. The film has an extremely convoluted plot going here. It takes place in some small African country in the middle of trying to figure out which cell phone company to handle the needs of that country. Yes, it's like a movie about ATT and Verizon battling it out with as much excitement as that brings to mind. At the same time Tyson is the last member of his tribe trying to take over the country. Segal is a bar owning dealer of weapons and warriors. Both have perhaps the least amount of screen time among the main cast members. I could go into the different factions trying to this contract that comes down to a Chinese group and a French one but honestly their tech talk became so boring that I found myself just trying to stay awake and watch the movie. On top of that they use of subtitles for foreign films is nothing new to me and I normally have no problem with it. But in this case the dialogue was so fast and the subtitles so miniature that I had to literally sit a few feet from the screen just to read them. On the plus side the film is very well shot and edited. Kudos to those involved on that end. And the promised though short lived fight between Tyson and Segal was fun to watch if over the top. Punching through pillars, kicking tables in half and nearly missing one another throughout the fight was outrageous fun. But other than that the movie fell flat. I honestly can't recommend this movie. I mean if it shows up on cable or if you have a service that shows it sure, watch it for that fight sequence. But then find something more interesting to do like clean out belly button lint.

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• Rubbish

  sandrabetty-725922018-06-02

  Please don't waste your time with this rubbish one of the worst films i've ever seen.

• Only gave it one star cuz I didn't figure out how to give it non

  asiribander2018-06-07

  An hour of life that I will never get back Only gave it one star cuz I didn't figure out how to give it non