Game of Death
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Movie Reviews of Game of Death
Movie Review: Game i death
Summary: 2 Stars
I liked the movie until he had is horrible death the qualidy was not to good but the movie was okMovie Review: Trust me, skip this one
Summary: 1 Stars
I first became intersted in this film because I was watching the original Bruce Lee fight scenes from this film on the American Movie Classics channel. I was mesmerized by the action sequences and vowed to own the DVD because from what I saw, the story line was awesome and the action sequences were the best I had ever seen! Unfortuately, I'm not a huge Bruce Lee buff, so I didn't know which movie I was watching at the time.After I did a search for Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, I happened upon this film: Game of Death. Since this movie boasted to be the only movie to show Kareem and Lee's only fight sequence, I figured this must be the movie I had been viewing on AMC. However, unbeknownst to me, AMC was showing A Warriors Journey, which had all the footage from this film, including additional footage that was edited out in the 1979 release of Game of Death (such as scenes where Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar talk during their fight and scenes of Lee's two buddies fighting the bosses and getting the crap kicked out of them until Lee steps up to regulate). In this movie, Lee's two buddies are gone and Kareem's fight sequence is quick and painless, along with other notable edits that made the movie that much more painful to digest.
As if the disappointment of not seeing all the scenes I had been engrossed in on AMC wasn't horrible enough, the story to this movie [is not good]. It's just a bunch of garbage thrown together to try and get a profit off never before released fight scenes using a cookie-cutter storyline that's been done a billion times before. The story is too confusing to even go into detail over, due to trying to make the movie last 90 minutes and still relay the story into Lee's final fight scenes, but I'll mention these elements: mafia, kidnapping a girlfriend, and extortion. (Ironically, the mafia isn't even Chinese, but American, even though the movie is set in China! They should have just set the movie in San Francisco or something! ARRGGHH!) I hope you see what I mean when I say "a bunch of garbage thrown together".
If you're familiar with dumb 1970s movies that never should have been made, you're probably familiar with this one and just don't know it. If you're not familiar with some of the horrible movies to come out of the '70s, please trust me when I say to skip this one ...
Movie Review: Bruce Lee would haved kicked this film to Neptune. Watch 'A Warrior's Journey' instead.
Summary: 1 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Dishonoring to Bruce Lee
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is not a Bruce Lee movie. This is not the philosophical message that Lee wanted to teach the world. This movie is more about pointless action, without a plot or story. It is true that Lee never got to finish the film, but he had a lot of footage,and what did the director do with it? He discarded it. The fight scenes have been cut short by about 5-7 minutes each.
Now tell me this, in all of Bruce Lee's previos movies, has tere been any motor bike chases? No! This movie is all about murder and action, if we wanted to see pointless murder, we would have gone and seen Terminator, or something else. Now, thanks to some great people, we can see the unfinished classic of The Game of Death on DVD. Please people, if you want to see The Game of Death, then just go buy the DVD known as Bruce Lee: The Warriors Journey. That movie has all of Lee's philosophical messages, and still a lot of action. Please people, dont buy this DVD.
P.S: They actually use Bruce Lee's Funeral Clips in this movie for a charector that dies,(Dont worry, i didnt spoil anything for you). Some of you may find that good, but i found it disrespectfull
Movie Review: Game Of Boring
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the Martial-Arts version of "Plan Nine From Outer Space" only not near as funny. When he died, Lee had only shot part of what he hoped would be a masterpiece of Martial Arts movies. Stuck with little film and no clue what to do with it, the producers hired a kindergarten class to write a script, hired a man who looks NOTHING REPEAT NOTHING like Lee and cut the fights that were filmed and got this cinematic version of goulash.nothing about this movies is good(except for the brief time Lee is on the screen) and to add insult to injury in some scenes they actual use a cut out picture of Lee superimposed over the doubles face. Just lousy!