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Game of Death

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An actor (Bruce Lee) shot by gangsters fakes his death, has plastic surgery and seeks kung-fu revenge.
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Almar Haflidason BBC.com 09/26/2001
3/5
...the standard of the choreography is excellent, and the final 20 minutes - which are almost all of Bruce fighting - are well worth holding out for. Go to Full Review
Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Oct 27
3/10
Though it barely works as a movie, a handful of fight scenes are undeniably entertaining, including a warehouse brawl with motorcycles and a showdown at the Red Pepper Restaurant. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk 03/08/2021
1.5/4
appropriates Lee's completed fight footage and awkwardly weds it to a hackneyed plot in order to squeeze whatever profits could still be wrung from his legacy Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/26/2020
0.5/5
An all around unfortunate and ill-conceived endeavor, it's a Lee feature for completists only. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 08/08/2020
2/4
The majority of the rescued Lee footage comes at the end -- this part of the film is spectacular and almost makes up for the dreariness of everything that precedes it. Go to Full Review
Ed Travis Cinapse 08/05/2020
Game Of Death would be an unconscionable tragedy if it weren't for those glorious moments when the true legend shines so brightly for one last fight. Go to Full Review
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Yash B 09/14/2024 The more I read about "Game of Death," the more I understand why it is the movie that it is. By nature, it is messy because essentially a plot was put together to make some footage Bruce Lee had shot make sense. I think the movie is super silly and ridiculous in a lot of ways, and for the first hour or so I just found myself a little frustrated by it. That being said, once the final act starts, and I actually get a chance to see Bruce Lee do what he did best, the movie is entertaining. This is easily the technically worst film I have seen from the Bruce Lee library, but it still features some great martial arts, despite it not being for a super long runtime. Overall, if the movie was much shorter and a little more effort was put into putting it together, I think there is something kind of fun and fascinatingly bizarre here, and worth seeing despite all the flaws. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 04/28/2024 Bruce Lee’s last movie has some moments of entertainment but the bad script and the laughable ways them filming around the tragic death of the star makes it the only dud in his filmography See more DanTheMan 2 08/04/2023 Game of Death is increasingly difficult to assign a rating to, on the one hand, it's a pretty routine action movie that happens to feature parts of an unfinished movie of the same name, while on the other extremely exploitative of Lee's death using footage from his actual funeral within the confines of this movie's plot. Director Robert Clouse seems almost against using any of Lee's previously shot footage. Instead, he limits most of Bruce's footage to the final act, which is only about 11 minutes in total and the occasional cut away to stock footage from Lee's previous movies married to a substandard revenge thriller. There's an attempt to hide the fact that the body doubles bear little resemblance to Bruce near the start of the movie but that quickly becomes less and less apparent as the movie goes on and by the end, you can see their faces plain as day. Oh and don't even get me started on Chris Kent's awful attempts to mimic Bruce's battle cries, I cringed so hard. Clouse seemed to be the wrong man to hire when it came to making this revised version of Game of Death, but he does deliver some great original action thanks in part to the choreography of Sammo Hun. It's just that the writing is on the whole abysmal married with some clumsy editing that often leaves many moments completely disorienting to the viewers. That being said, however, John Barry's music is sublime, it has that Bondian feel but is one of the best parts of the movie. I can't really recommend this version of Game of Death unless you are a die-hard completionist like myself, it's an all-around unfortunate and ill-conceived endeavour in an attempt to finish a legacy. See more Chris M 05/09/2023 But I wanna know how much of the movie did Bruce get done before he passed? Because watching this mess, I'm guessing not much. I was under the impression it was at least over half. But the actual footage from the movie is like maybe 10%, not counting the stock-footage from other movies. This movie came out for pure exploitation on the Bruce Lee craze that started after his death. As other wanna be Bruce Lees with similar names got movies. What became know as Bruceploitation. But this is the worse as they take advantage of the tiny bit he was able to film. What's more insulting is there's a sequel. It makes me sick. Hollywood hits a new low with this one. See more Matthew B 12/19/2022 Best of Movies/TV Series Collection See more thiago s @Thiagostone 08/17/2022 filme legal, o roteiro é normal, as cenas de luta do bruce lee que não é o bruce lee são tão boas que deixa o filme um pouco interessante, e ainda a luta clássica com o jogador de basquete Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, o filme mostra um clone do Bruce Lee o filme todo, e mostra o verdadeiro Bruce Lee quando o clone sobe as escadas para enfrentar o seu primeiro oponente, depois o clone volta quando o inimigo do filme todo aparece descendo as escadas, com tudo isso, eu recomendo esse filme. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An actor (Bruce Lee) shot by gangsters fakes his death, has plastic surgery and seeks kung-fu revenge.
Director
Robert Clouse
Producer
Raymond Chow Man-Wai
Screenwriter
Robert Clouse
Production Co
Columbia
Rating
R
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 24, 2017
Runtime
1h 42m
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