It’s that time of year ya’ll and the celebrating continues! It’s a Very Kung Fu Christmas here at Varied Celluloid and I’m pumping them out as fast as I can! More Kung Fu coming at you with this classic bit of Brucesploitation. Absolutely insane movie starring Bruce Li, totally worth a look.
The Plot: Our story starts with Bruce Li playing a young martial artist who bears a strong resemblance to the late Bruce Lee. He is soon contacted by some producers who have noticed this resemblance and want him to take over the lead role on Bruce Lee’s unfinished film. So, after gathering in their office, they then show the leftover footage from this long lost movie in which Bruce Li plays Bruce Lee. You see, that’s the last we see of Bruce Li playing himself. The rest of our running time is simply the unfinished film itself. Inside of this new story we’re shown Bruce taking his girlfriend home from a walk, when all of a sudden he spots a man being stabbed! Bruce intervenes but not fast enough to save the gentleman’s life and as he dies, the man asks Bruce to go to his wife and deliver a mysterious bag. When Bruce arrives to tell the widow of the situation, she goes into hysterics about her son who is also in trouble! She has a package that needs to be delivered to him, but who could ever do it? Well, Bruce Lee can! So with that he’s on his way, but unknown to him the entire situation was a trap. The man wasn’t killed and the woman has no son, they plan on using Bruce to deliver the box (which is packed full of hard cash!) and that makes him a marked man. Now Bruce must team with his brother in order to take this box of money to the police and put a stop to these criminals! However, Bruce’s brother is soon kidnapped and the money is missing! With these racketeers breathing down his neck, Bruce will be forced to fight back!
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Posted On: March 21st, 2010 - 2:18 pm
Its plain racism and you know as well as all other the Bruce Lee story and how racist people in Hollywood. Hollywood went out its way to fine Asian actors proclaim them to be the next Bruce Lee. Even finding look a-likes pawning them off as Bruce Lee. Just goes to show how some things never change.. It was 40 years ago, when Bruce was hounded about “STYLES”. Many took credit at the time of his death, that JKD was basically “This style or that style”. Oh how I wish he was still here. How much more he would have given us. Check out Bruce Lee’s ‘Enter the Dragon’ the unedited version on online for ‘Free’ at: http://famedmovies.com/ . It was considered as culturally significant and selected for preservation in the national film registry in the library of congress 2004. Possibly because it was his first US film and although it acknowledges his international acclaim. I think his Chinese films would not have made much of a hoop la in the US… excluding oft course ‘Way of the Dragon’ with Chuck Norris. If people carefully studied the movie enter the dragon and game of death. You will see the many REAL mixed martial arts that cover different ranges and situations from the striking arts to the grappling arts, to multiple fighting, to weapons and unorthodox situation that can happen in a fight including the use of a snake. His movies were instructional by intent! You need to understand, 1st of all Bruce Lee was a martial artist that became an actor. He developed his own theories. He was far a head of his time and is the father of mixed martial arts. there would be no UFC or things like it, if it were not for Bruce Lee. he was one of the most perfect physical specimens ever. he deserves better than people that do not know what they are speaking of, putting him down. Oh and he used no CGI or other things like now. he could really do all he showed. Personally I liked The Big Boss the best overall, but I still agree that the fight scenes in this movie were the most realistic.