China Salesman (2017)

A Chinese IT company representative attempts to spoil a conspiracy to start a civil war in an African country orchestrated by an European businessman who is aided by a tough African warrior.

Director:

Tan Bing

Writers:

Tan Bing, Sholom Gelt (re-writes) (as Scott Salter)

Stars:

Dong-xue Li, Mike Tyson, Janicke Askevold

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Cast

Credited cast:
Dong-xue Li	...	Yan Jian
Mike Tyson	...	Kabbah
Janicke Askevold	...	Susanna
Li Ai	...	Ruan Ling
Eriq Ebouaney	...	Sheik Asaid
Steven Seagal	...	Lauder
Zijian Wang	...	Zheng Ming
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bryan Byrne	...	Lauder Henchman
Sheri Cheng	...	DH Female Representative
Anthony Gavard	...	ONU Officer
Scotty Gelt	...	Mr. Alexander (as S.F. Gelt)
Marc Philip Goodman	...	Philip (as Marc P. Goodman)
Diana Hübel	...	Lawyer
Randall Lowell	...	Mr. Carlos, Director of LK Telecom Group
Mekael Turner	...	Lauder's Right-hand Man

Storyline

Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them.

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Plot Keywords:

gunfight | shootout | battle | battlefield | combat | 

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Taglines:

"Who are you?" "I am a CHINA salesman."

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Genres:

Action | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

China

Language:

Chinese English

Release Date:

15 June 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zhong guo tui xiao yuan

Box Office

Budget:

CNY110,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,637,776

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Despite being featured heavily in the film's marketing, the conflict between Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal is just a small subplot that consists of just one short fight at the beginning of the movie (and during most of it Seagal is clearly replaced by his stuntman), and that is the only scene that the 2 of them share.

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Goofs

During the fight scene between Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal, in various shots Seagal is replaced by another man who is visibly younger and slimmer than Seagal.

User Reviews

Terrible script, bad acting, disgusting male hairdo in Korean style

Well, the Chinese movie investment did it again, they overlooked a very bad screenplay, casting lot of deadbeat no-talent at all low level actors to play the bad people, watching these non-actors poor performances, I suddenly found Steven Segal and Mike Tyson were actually a pair of pretty good actors in this laughable film. Both of the two leading Chinese actors were also lousy actors with awkward and pretentious performances, the male actor also had a funny Korean style hairdo, that was covered up his forehead with hairs combed down below his eyebrows, this sissy hairstyle is the typical disgusting hairstyle widely used by those sissy looking Korean young actors or singers and blindly copycatted by the Chinese young entertainers. I just felt very uncomfortable to watch a Chinese high tech guy would have a funny Korean hairstyle.

Anyway, this is a very shallow movie, blindly invested by those Chinese deep pockets. They thought making the African locality and background setting was a cool and exotic choice that would sell to the Chinese moviegoers easily. But with such a poor screenplay and poor cast, all I could concentrate is the African scenes, the streets, the African people, the desert, the camels, the palm trees and the SUVs....