Tower of Death

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Summary: False Advertising
Review: The reason I consider this false advertising is because Bruce Lee's image is prominitely featured on the cover and yet he does not make a live appearance in the movie. His scenes are edited from his other movies. For instance, a scene in which he enters a room is from " Enter the Dragon ". As well as other movies. It is poorly edited together and the acting is horrendous. I was also very disappointed in the choreography. They fight scenes were sluggish at best. The main reason I bought this feature was because I wanted to see the legendary Bruce Lee choreographed by the legendary Yuen Wo-ping. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I cannot recommend this to any martial arts action fan.

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Summary: HE'S THE KING OF KUNG FU
Review: The version I saw is entitled: Goodbye Bruce Lee, His Last Game Of Death. I don't know if that version is the same as this one but this is what happened in the one I saw. The movie begins with the opening credits: a black screen with yellow text and a picture of Bruce Lee on the right. After that, there is some behind the scenes footage from Game of Death. Bruce Lee died before he finished Game of Death and this movie was one of the first and in my opinion the best attempt to remake the movie using doubles. After the behind the scenes footage, we see a Bruce Lee double being taken into a cinema by a movie producer. The producer wants this double to fill in Lee's shoes. He tell the double he is going to show him the footage Bruce Lee filmed before he died. This footage is the rest of the movie. So does the double fill in Lee's shoes? I don't know. Fan's should seek out the British DVD release of Goodbye Bruce Lee.

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Summary: Get the U.K. disc.
Review: This early Bruce Li film is released here as THE NEW GAME OF DEATH and the DVD is a bare bones bad transfer. The UK edition features the original title, GOODBYE BRUCE LEE HIS LAST GAME OF DEATH. The DVD is great with animated menus, Bruce Li bio/filmography, trailer, dvd catalogue and re-mastered STUNNING widescreen transfer with virtually no scratches or lines. Definatley a MUST BUY for Bruce Li fans.

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Summary: *****A Well Made Film *****
Review: THIS MOVIE HAS PROBABLY BEEN ONE OF MY FAVORITES SINCE THE ORGINAL "GAME OF DEATH" STARRING THE REAL BRUCE LEE HIMSELF. THIS MOVIE IS VERY WELL MADE, THE MOVIE SEEMS TO BE PROPERLY PLANNED,UNLIKE THE ORGINAL, MANY PARTS SEEMED TO BE VERY WELL PLANNED. IN THE ENDING OF THE ORGINAL, NOTHING IS KNOWN TO WHAT HAPPENS TO ANNE THE GIRLFRIEND OF BILLY LO (BRUCE LEE) AFTER HE RESCUES HER AND TELLS HER TO RUN. ALL WHAT HAPPENS IS BILLY LO HAPPENS TO FIND THE HIDE OUT OF HIS ULTAMATE FOE AND KILLS HIS HENCHMEN AND THEN KILLS THE LEADER, END OF STORY... THEY ALSO HAD TWO STAND-INS AFTER BRUCE LEE'S UNTIMELY DEATH. THE STORY IN "THE REAL GAME OF DEATH" CARRIES ON THE ORGINAL PLOT, OF THE ORGINAL "GAME OF DEATH" BEFORE IT WAS CHANGED DUE TO THE DEATH OF BRUCE LEE. THE ORGINAL PLOT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT AN 8 STORY PAGODA CONTAING A MARTIAL ARTS MASTER ON EACH PAGODA. A CONTESTANT HAS TO FIGHT AND DEFEAT THE MASTER ON EACH LEVEL. AFTER YOU HAVE DEFEATED ALL THE MASTERS YOU HAVE TO FIGHT AND DEFEAT THE GRAND MASTER. THE PRIZE? LIFE AND MONEY.

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Summary: BRILLIANT FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY
Review: This movie was made after Bruce Lee died. It features clips (some never before seen)of various other Bruce Lee movies and uses a look-a-like filmed so that you can't see his face. In terms of story, Lee is killed while trying to stop a helicopter from taking his dead friend's coffin. His younger brother (played by the double who stands in for Lee earlier in the movie) intends to take revenge (how original) so he travels to Japan (why?) to seek vengeance. He eventually discovers the Tower of Death which is a tower built upside down underground. He fights his way to the bottom (if you don't want to know what happens, stop reading this review)and finds that Lee's dead friend was the man behind it. The brother fights the friend in a fight which ends in the friend getting stabbed by his own sword. This movie has often been confused with THE NEW GAME OF DEATH which is a very bad movie that dosen't feature Bruce Lee at all. TOWER OF DEATH has also been released as GAME OF DEATH 2, a sequel to Lee's last movie. That is ridiculas and it was even dubbed to carry on the story of the first GAME OF DEATH which resulted in a very bad film. The movie, TOWER OF DEATH is a 1981 action classic and the last Bruce Lee movie (sort of). In Chinese with English subtitles.

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Summary: Lets just not complete his unfinished work ok?
Review: Well I gotta comment of the people who want to view Real Bruce Lee movies to get to know him first from a reliable source and not the Dragon the bruce lee story but a book. Bruce chorographed all his fightin and wouldn't want someone else do it as Yuen Bao. Every attempt to finish his movie or imitate is just unrealistic that people will say "Hey he is just like Bruce!" Tower of Death does not have the Bruce quality or realistic fighting scenes. It is made up of acrobatic moves. Unless u want to see that then go ahead rent or buy it. Remember the "New" and Tower of Death does not include real footage of Bruce Lee just reminders of other movies(setting & clothes he wore.) Go for a real movie of his. (He made only 4)

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Summary: People don't appreciate this
Review: What none of you understand is that this is a totally different choreographer. Lee is only impersonated for maybe 2 fights, and these fights are damned good. Then the movie goes into hyperdrive and there are exceptional fights throughout, anyone who likes Yuen Wo Ping (Drunken Master, Buddhist Fist, Dance Drunken Mantis, Snake in Eagle's Shadow, NOT THE MATRIX I'M TALKING PRE-1982) will love this, I consider it one of his best works. And by the way, to Stephen, you might want to watch Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee was doubled by Yuen Wah in that movie, we can't say that the real Bruce could do JUST ANYTHING. Yuen Biao does incredible acrobatics and the Lee impersonator, who plays Lee's brother for the other 90% of the movie, is one awesome fighter, quite famous in HK too. Anyone who reviews this movie solely based on Bruce's stock footage in the beginning is missing the whole point: BRUCE WAS DEAD and you can't have a real Bruce movie without Bruce. Hence, this isn't Bruce choreography, but YWP. And Hwang Jang Lee is awesome in the end fight.

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Summary: Great movie, although Bruce is not really in it
Review: You see Bruce Lee for about 5 minutes during this movie. It looked as if they took some brief camera shoots of him, and used those shoots to stick him into the story line.

But this movie is still a great martial arts film. The main star is a character that fights exactly like Bruce Lee. His fists are lightning fast and he is able to defeat multiple bad guys by himself.

I saw this movie for the first time last week, and I can honestly say that it is better than Kill Bill and better than Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.