Chokeslam (2016)

At high school he was a loser and totally messed it up when he wanted to get out of his crush’s friend zone. Today she is a pro wrestler, and he is still a loser. With Mick Foley in a supporting role. 102min imdb

Movie 102min

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The movie starts with a delicatessen holdup, and Curtis, the guy behind the counter, treats the robber just like a customer, even though he recognizes his old highschool bully Luke. Then there is Sheena, Curtis’ old highschool crush who ditched him when he really, totally, unbelievably and unbearably messed up. She has become a prowrestling badass, but now that she’s coming back for the 10 year highschool reunion she is not doing too great careerwise.


So looking at the first few minutes this one looks like one of the best and most underrated comedies ever. Pity that that they can’t keep up the quality and it looks like they didn’t even want to. There are so many interesting supporting characters, each of them deserving more screen time and character development, and yet they decided to make a romcom. However it still is a very good movie, so much better than every romcom except of course Shaun Of The Dead.

A few words on the casting. The cast includes Harry (son of Davey Boy) Smith and God. Yes, Mick Foley is God. Period. Also, they had Chelsea Green, a pro wrestler, and you know that you can’t become a pro wrestler without being an at least decent actor. So I wonder why Sheena is played by an actress who obviously had some wrestling tutorials and then had to leave the actual chokeslamming to a stunt woman. Dumb with a capital d.