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The first scene is a rare fight between Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.
Late in a reenactment of the last scene of "Fist of Fury"
that actor Bruce Lee is playing is shot in the face.
He stages his death and sets out to exact his revenge.
His girl friend is kidnapped sparking the final showdown.
This movie has many later martial arts stars in it and is the last Bruce Lee
movie as he died under mysterious circumstances during the filming.
"excellent pkging & shape.. Thank you sooo much :)"
2009-06-25
- Reviewed By User: AB18761FNPQZP
The dvd was shipped in the time frame, perfect packaging & shape of dvd. Thank you & I would order from you again :)
"its not Lee's concept, but its not a bad movie...if you let it be"
Most people are pissed (and rightly so) that this is Not what Bruce Lee had envisioned the film to be, he died suddenly in 1973 and what remained was just unfinished ideas. Most of the footage left shot was re-takes after re-takes being Lee was such a perfectionist.
In a Warriors Story documentary, you see the remaining footage edited together nicely in what would have been the ending of the movie. That being said........the directors of Games of Death did not have access to Lee's notes or what his vision was for the movie, this movie came out in 1978....5 full years after he died, and who knows when they actually started on it...1976? who knows.
What you get is a decent story line, good Amircian actors, good mucic score. Actually the production quality of this movie ranks about the best of any Lee movie (exception Enter the Dragon).
The stand in are good.
If you just watched this movie for the very first time and knew NOTHING about its background, you'd say it wasnt bad at all.
What we get is a directors vision of a movie and uses the last footage of Bruce Lee, to me thats not bad. I do wish the director used all of the Lee footage, and got them other 2 guys with him back to make it a better movie, but it is what it is.
BUT I must say this.........now that the original Bruce Lee notes and ideas and lost footage has been found.
Please Hollywood.....or Harvest Moon Productions, make a authentic "Games Of Death" to the best of your abilities, making it what Lees vision was. Using todays computer enhancements and technology, Im sure a decent film came be rendered......actually, one could almost make a version themselves on their own personal computer using all the footage available, maybe someone will.
"Meh"
2009-04-09
- Reviewed By User: ARW56BILL4WUK
Not one of Bruce Lee's best. Mostly because its clearly not him throughout most of the movie.
"Bruce Lee would haved kicked this film to Neptune. Watch 'A Warrior's Journey' instead."
The Game of Death is the biggest disappointment you can watch as a Bruce Lee fan. It is not even a Bruce Lee film. It is a film with a terrible story, a stunt double, Bruce Lee's face pasted on the shoulders of the stunt double (yes it is actually like a photo on someone's shoulders), sequences taken from other Bruce Lee films you have seen before and the two fight scenes filmed with Bruce Lee before he died.
So most people want to watch it for the 11 minutes of Bruce Lee where he appears right at the end. There is the nunchaku fight scene and the Kareem Abdul Jabbar fight.
The bottom line is that there is a much better way to do this than watching this train wreck. The film is absolutely chronically bad and the production should have been shelved and the fight sequences released in a documentary. That is the way this should have been done... in fact it has been done! It's called "Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey" (2000). If you have any sense you would get that if you want to watch this for the Bruce Lee fight sequence. It contains all of this sequence and more (outtakes).
The fight scene is a classic though, although it is debatable if it's his best. It is Lee with more experience and his styles are even wider than before. He also wears a legendary yellow jumpsuit with black stripes and cute matching shoes. The outfit appears in the Tekkan games with the character Marshal Law.
This terrible film should never have been remastered for release in the Martial Arts section of Contender Entertainment Group's `Hong Kong Legends'. It should have been omitted from the Bruce Lee box set and replaced with A Warrior's Journey.
Anyway, A Warrior's Journey is where it is at. Bruce Lee would have personally smashed this production to splinters.
"Game of Death"
2008-01-05
- Reviewed By User: A6JGSAZMGT13R
This film is great to me due to the fight scenes of course which i thought were well done. The actual tape recieved from this seller was in a nonworking condition however.
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"Bruce Lee would haved kicked this film to Neptune. Watch 'A Warrior's Journey' instead."