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Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey

Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent... Every Bruce Lee fan should have this DVD
Review: Some of this footage was shown at the end of the "Bruce Lee - The Legend" documentary back in 1983-1984. I'm surprised that it took this long for all of the footage to be released.

Anyways, this DVD is a MUST for true Bruce Lee fans. It's a shame that the original "Game of Death" was butchered and destroyed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Game of Death as Bruce intended it to be shown
Review: The 1978 version of Game of Death has always amazed me, NOT of the movie itself, but how Bruce Lee has achieved a movie cult status in his iconalistic yellow fighting suit, regardless of his less than twenty minutes footage in the movie.
NOW, the The Game of Death as Bruce intended it to be shown is actualized by the sheer brilliance of John Little, in "A Warrior's Journey." Fans of Bruce Lee.. THIS IS ONE DVD that you cannot miss!
I particularly like the part where Bruce bends the bamboo and says to Dan:"This bamboo is longer.. more flexible and very much alive.. and if your flashy routine cannot keep up with the speed and the elusiveness of this thing (the bamboo) here.. all i can say is that.. baby.. you are in deep trouble.." And later again Bruce says to Dan:"Rehearsed routine is difficult to keep up with broken rhythm.."
The Game of Death as Bruce intended it to be shown, as represented in "A Warrior's Journey" has become my most favourite Bruce Lee movie!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best documentarys I've seen
Review: The hacked version of Game Of Death is, in my opinion the worst movie I've ever seen. It's poorly edited, the acting is awful and on top of that it's insulting. It's insulting to Bruce Lee, his family, Martial Arts films, and films in general. Bruce Lee had died and never got the chance to finish the film. That didn't stop a bunch of studio executives to re-write the script, get a double to fill in for Lee and even use footage from Bruce's older films. The result is a mess of a film that should have never been made. The actual footage of Bruce Lee that appears in the film is only about eleven minutes worth. When in fact there was over one hundred minutes of footage Bruce had shot. Most of which is outtakes and re-takes.

Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey focuses on Bruce's rise to fame in both the Martial Arts world and the film world. It explores his struggles against prejudice in Hollywood. On top of all that Bruce's original vision for The Game of Death is revealed. His original script is uncovered. Completely different from the released version. This was going to be the film that finally focused on Bruce's personal philosophy.

The real gem of this documentary comes at the end. For the first time. The full thirty minutes of Bruce's lost footage for the Game of Death is revealed and let me tell you it's glorious to behold. These thiry minutes featuring some of the greatest martial arts I've ever seen on film. If there ever was any reason to think that Bruce Lee was the master it's proven in this footage. Had he lived to finish the film it would've been his masterpiece.

Skip the released version and watch this documentary instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Bruce Lee Movie
Review: The movie shows you all of the scence from the only film Bruce Lee never finished, "Game of Death." The movie is also very inciteful. The DVD also has some cool special features.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A great buy for any Lee fan.
Review: This disk is a nice buy; it features a well-done biography with many footages of Bruce I haven't even seen before. Most of his casual fans'll learn alot from this, and I would highly recommend it to them. Heck, even veteran fans might learn something new. Well anyway, it tells you about how Bruce saw martial arts, lived his life, saw things, etc, etc... Basically, it's what a biography on a person should be.

But the real awesome thing here is the rare, uncut scenes from "The Game of Death." The footage is about 40 minutes long, and quite satisfying as well. Thing is, I thought they would actually find and show some scenes that took place outside of the pagoda, but there aren't any at all. Ah well, it's still great. At least I knew how Bruce wanted it to be.

Kudos to the people who found the footage that was lost for an amazing 28 YEARS.

Overall, this is definatley worth getting. I liked it alot, and hopefully you will to if you decide to go on and buy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing Documentary
Review: This documentary shows the cut scenes from "The Game Of Death", which should have been the ultimate martial arts movie. Too bad he decided to make "Enter The Dragon" instead of resume filming "The Game Of Death". The rest of the documentary describes Bruce as a person and his great martial arts ability.
He inspires you to be yourself instead of trying to be someone else. This documentary is precious and worth every coin.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: At Last The Real Game of Death
Review: This DVD at last attempts (and succeeds) in portraying the essence of Bruce Lee's art and the Game of Death's real storyline. Fantastic original footage of the Game of Death - with dialogue together with credible interviews with those who knew him are woven into the footage. The last 30 minutes are a definite highlight. There are also plenty of exerpts from other movies, home movies and TV appearances to savour as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Bruce Lee is God
Review: This DVD is one of the most entertaining thing i have seen.
The lost footage was perfect and the fighting scene are best i have ever seen.
If Bruce Lee finished the game of death the movie would've been the best movie ever.
No one can ever compare their martial arts skills to Bruce Lee, he will always be the best.
Bruce Lee is also a intelligent man and you will know this after you watch the documentry.
Bruce has paved the way for other asian movie stars.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Bruce Original that took 28 years to be Released!
Review: This half documentary, half film experience is a Masterpiece!

For any Bruce Lee movie fans, collectors, or simply people who are interested in the personal character or philosophical aspects of this individual, this title is a must see.

The 30 minute film is a reconstruction of the lost footage that Bruce shot for Game of Death. Coupled with the original dialogue that was located prior to finding the footage, one can glean how Bruce intended Game of Death to be a philosophical Martial Arts film.

The footage does contain what has been previously released back in 1978 by Paragon Films' version of Game of Death. But the extra 20 odd minutes & the inclusion of the dialogue that Bruce had for the footage this time was worth every cent I paid!

The documentary was also quite good, his personal journey to superstardom was not without tremendous personal hardwork, endurance, determination and dedication. One can learn that Bruce did earn his status not through natural talent but more importantly, pure hardwork. He is indeed one in two billion in that respect.

Bruce's very last film is worth seeing (especially the philosophical aspects that were contained in that footage), and his personal journey could be an inspiration for us all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Holy Grail of Martial Arts Films
Review: While this is a wonderful documentary of Bruce Lee's life and career, it is the restoration of "The Game of Death," that is astounding.

Out of curiousity, I went back to look at the DVD packaging. In small type at the bottom of the box it mentions, "Footage from his unfinished classic, The Game of Death."

Talk about under-promising and over-delivering! This should have been rereleased with the title, "THE GAME OF DEATH," because it transforms the worst movie I've ever seen (the original studio release of Game of Death) into perhaps the greatest.

If you didn't know, there's a scene in the butchered studio version where the studio actually superimposed a photo cut-out of Bruce Lee over the face of a stand-in. It's really more ludicrous than the sci fi movies where you can see the strings holding up the flying saucers.

Well, the restoration has none of the crap inserted by studio. Maybe in a few years when the computer technology gets even cheaper and easier to use, the same filmmaker will attempt an even more ambitious restoration, filling in the last remaining gaps with convincing computer-generated recreations.


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