Game of Death

Rating:
Summary: Bruce Lee in his last film
Review: Before watching this film,I knew that Bruce Lee died before finishing it,so my expectations where that Bruce would come out in some parts of the films and other parts would be doubled.

Plot

Bruce Lee stars as a martial arts movie star, Billy Lo
who has a white girlfriend, who are threatened by a mafia
organization. Of couree Billy refuses, the mafia orders
a hit on him and thinks he is dead , of course he isn't.

The sad part is that a large bulk of the film isnt played
by Lee but his body double, Tai Chung Kim. However he has
a pretty good double, the movie has some pretty good fights
done by the double, although he obviously lacks the body Bruce had.

That is the frame of my mind you have to have with this film. However you will probably have to fast forward to the only fluid moments with the Master Bruce Lee. The 60 minutes use pictures of Bruce Lee in the fights but it's a bad idea. The movie could have been cut considerably into maybe a 30 min to 45 min ,but instead we are forced to stomach, a Bruce Lee wannabee who cant compare an eye to the Master, and who gets his butt kicked throught the movie.

The footage with Bruce Lee, is incredible. The fight scenes last up to 10-15 minutes total, but they are so physical, they probably took up several rehearsals to shoot.

Bruce was filming "Enter The Dragon" while filming this film. He and the Directors did the right thing by filming the end first because of Bruce's busy schedule.

You cant call this film an overall great action movie like one reviewer said because it has many faults. It's too too long (90 minutes) and the Bruce Look alike gets beat for half the film until the Real Bruce Lee shows up at the end.

Also the Bruce Lee double in this film is just plain puny looking. He looks as if he has never lifted weights.

What I would have done to make the film more enjoyable is shorten the film, immensely, then put a biograpy about Bruce , so as not to leave the viewer unsatisfied with the film.

No one today can do what Bruce Lee did in his prime (ask Chuck Norris who has failed miserably copying his moves and is now doing a laughable show called Walker).




Rating:
Summary: Now Rendered Pointless
Review: At one time I would have recommended getting this film solely to see the amazing fight sequence between Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (the only part of the movie filmed before Lee's death). However, thanks to Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey (now widely available complete and uncut as an extra on the Enter the Dragon 2-disc special edition dvd!), it is now possible to see both this fight scene and the once lost fight scenes leading up to it cut and edited the way Bruce Lee originally intended. As a result, Game of Death has been rendered completely and utterly pointless and should forever be relegated to the trash can.



Rating:
Summary: not bruce lee
Review: in this version 90% of this discrace was use with a stand in. horrible acting and story.. the fight scene with the real bruce lee was cut in half. this move is horrible......dont buy it....ive seen the full fight scene on tv when he went through the levels with 2 friends but not sure of what it is really called.....

Rating:
Summary: Yep, It's Pretty Bad
Review: "Game of Death," as you may already know, was finished six years after Bruce Lee's death with 30 minutes of Bruce Lee footage (cut down to only 11 in the final version). In the rest of the movie, the inconveniantly dead Lee is doubled by some other guys. I bet the writers wrote this movie based on how they could disguise the doubles. Doubles are seen wearing sunglasses, bandages, and even fake beards. In one classic instance, Bruce Lee's face is superimposed over one of the doubles. The plot itself is really awful and enough to make one sort of queasy, but the movie, while not for the purist, is a certifiable curio.
The DVD is in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The picture looks bright, but a few scenes are scratchy, and the colour often bleeds. The box advertises a theatrical trailer, even showing a picture of the main menu with "theatrical trailer" as one of the options. Frustratingly, it is nowhere to be found.

Rating:
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS FILM (READ THIS)
Review: This film is an insult to everything Bruce Lee was. And they didn't even use all of the available fight footage. Instead, pick up "Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey". It contains EVERY SECOND of the original fight footage Bruce shot (at least 20 more minutes worth), along with a plot synopsis from the original screenplay as well as a VERY in depth documentary covering his whole life. If you are a Bruce Lee or kung fu fan, that dvd is a must-have. Not this one.

Rating:
Summary: "Game Of Death" Review
Review: While billed as the "final film of Bruce Lee", it is important to note that this movie just splices footage from other Lee films in with both shots of a Lee double and the only actual material that Bruce recorded for the film, which clocks in at just over 20 minutes. The way that the filmmakers try to pass off a poor double as the real Bruce reminds one of the infamous Bela Lugosi "Plan 9 From Outer Space" curtain call. While the first hour or so of the movie is laughably bad, one of the big anti-climatic fights involving Bruce and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is worth every dime you put in. The jaw-dropping battle uses well-placed fight choreography as opposed to today's fancy camera tricks to make for one of the best martial arts fight routines captured on film. For those who want to know, the plot of the film surrounds a martial arts film star who fakes his death and returns to seek revenge on the mob. In a twisted sense of irony, Bruce's character is shot on a movie set with a gun that is filled with real bullets instead of blanks, the very same accident that would claim his son, Brandon, on the set of "The Crow", nearly twenty years later.