Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

KUNG FU ELLIOT is another of those micro budget 'mockumentary' comedies that have been doing the rounds ever since THIS IS SPINAL TAP popularised the genre. This time it's about the titular character, a legend in his own mind, who turns out to be a typical chubby middle-aged guy with little skill or ability at anything. I found the comedy laboured and over-obvious and the film as a whole a real chore to get through, it's that bad.

I have owned a video store in Moncton NB Canada for the past 15 years and I know Elliot and the filmmakers. This is definitely a documentary. It's just a crazy story.

Within ten minutes it was fairly obvious that this was a mockumentary in a similar deadpan style to those of Christopher Guest, crossed with some improv in the vein of Curb Your Enthusiasm.If the film-makers had attempted to keep it more within the bounds of possibility I feel it would have been more successful but I enjoyed the attempt nevertheless - as the film progressed believability was sacrificed for wackiness and holes in the stories that gave the game away that this was not, in fact, a documentary - I have a feeling this was deliberately referenced late on in proceedings when the filmmakers "interviewed" Elliot's put-upon girlfriend Linda, about the nature of documentary, with the fabrications of Elliot in regards to his past being linked to the fabrication of this film and documentaries as an entire genre.I should note that very early on Elliot refers to Jean-Claude Van Damme as being French when he is in fact Belgian - this may have been part of his character's lack of depth in understanding but it was the first flag for me that made question this being a 'documentary'.

I'm not gonna spoil anything, but this documentary film starts off as a funny and charming look at a pretty delusional guy who thinks he's gonna be the next Jean Claude Van Dame who makes movies with his girlfriend.All that might sound innocent enough but they throw you one heck of a twist at you one hour in that will make you look at the whole thing in a completely different light, like a total 360 degree change to the point that you're left thinking 'could this be real?'.But they say that the truth is usually stranger than fiction, and if that is true than this could be the very testament of that.I kinda hope that it was all a hoax in all honesty, and that it is some sort of satire on documentaries to show how easily manipulated they are and how you can portray 'reality' from many different points of views to get your desired idea across.Yeah, this was one of the most bizarre things I've seen in a long long long time, and I was a bit disturbed in the end in all honesty. I guess that in itself makes it recommendable.