This is the strangest casting choice I have read of in years. Tim Allen in a David Mamet film doesn't make sense but I'm excited about it. I'm excited anytime an actor or actress (or even Tim Allen) tries to do something new and different. No other movies sound like David Mamet movies. The rhythm and style of his dialogue is completely unique. It will be interesting to hear it coming from the mouth of Tool Times own Tim Taylor.
Chiwetel Ejiofor co-stars.
The plot of the film sounds ridiculous but it's not really the set up that makes Mamet films great, it's the delivery. Ejiofor stars as a Jiu-jitsu master whose purity is compromised when he is drawn into the movie business and manipulated into brawling in ultimate fighting matches.
Allen plays a troubled action star with marital problems who meets the master when he is getting pummeled in a street fight.
Below is the trailer to one of my favorite Mamet films. It just happens to feature an actor that has (just recently) been known to star in a variety of family films. Here he is playing probably the most dramatic role of his career.
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