Director: Tan Bing
Notable Cast: Dong-Xue Li,
Mike Tyson, Janicke Askevold, Li Ai, Eriq Ebouaney, Steven Seagal, Zijan Wang
When China Salesman
was first announced there was a lot of hype around the film. It was a Chinese
film, but it would feature both Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal. They were also
going to have a fight. Cause, why the hell not? As a person who grew up
watching Tyson fight in the ring and Seagal flip people haphazardly on the
silver screen, I was immediately intrigued. There was almost no chance that
this film would be good, particularly when the synopsis was revealed and the
big appeal to western audiences would be this battle of larger than life
personalities. When the opportunity came to review this film, I leapt at it
knowing full well that China Salesman
would not be a great film. Nay, it wasn’t even going to be a good film. If it
was a film at all, I was going to be pleasantly surprised.
Surprise, surprise, China
Salesman is a film, but it is very terrible.