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Stars Bruce Lea, not Bruce Lee. Premise based on Bruce Lee having a premonition of his death on his last visit to Hong Kong and telling one of his students to find out why if it happened. Standard kung fu nonsense but this one is watchable. Favourite part was police officer threatening Lea with getting the electric chair minutes before setting him free.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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With a title like this you're probably expecting some kind of supernatural thriller about the resurrected soul of Bruce Lee returning from the afterlife to kick all kinds of ass once more. The opening sequence certainly suggests this, with Lee's grave being struck by lightning and the man himself (or an imitator at least) springing out of the earth, looking as good as new and ready to open a can. At that very moment we experience one of the movie's many jarring cuts, and are suddenly transported into an entirely different story which has literally nothing to do with Bruce Lee, and I do mean nothing. We don't see him doing any fighting, the one thing you'd expect from a film with this title. He isn't even mentioned again. I watched another movie not long ago called The Clones Of Bruce Lee, a notorious Brucesploitation picture which involved 3 Lee clones fighting crime in South Asia. It was stupid, incoherent and at times downright insufferable, but at the very least it had actors in it who were pretending to be Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave features a man called Wong investigating the death of his brother. It's an uber generic plot, laden with terrible dialogue, wooden deliveries, shockingly bad lip-synching and camerawork that can be generously described as subpar. In some of the fights scenes it actually looks as though the actors are attacking the camera man, who is knocked all over the place while trying to film them. I was bored stiff most of the time, but I'll admit to cracking up on 3 occasions, all of which were at the conclusion of otherwise unremarkable fight sequences, where the killer blows are replayed in slow-mo, and with the brightness turned up, just in case we missed them the first time round.
I've watched a fair few 'So-bad-its-good' movies lately, and this one, while getting a chuckle out of me now then, is mostly just dull, mainly because of how cheap and uninvolving everything is. The characters look as clueless as the audience, and the films lack of direction and forward momentum mean you'll start checking your watching pretty fast, and wondering furiously how an hour and 24 minutes can seem like so much longer.
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02/26/23
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This is another strange movie from the public domain. It's a part of these "Bruceploitation" films made after Bruce Lee's death to try and keep the memory alive. It starts with a blot of lighting hitting Bruce Lee's Grave, and that's as close as it is to Bruce Lee.
Then it begins with a kung fu instructor, Han Wook, played by Bruce K.L. Lea. He goes to Las Vegas to find his brother and when he does. He finds out he was a part of an opium ring and died. Han Wook takes what I think is his brother's ashes or bones in this box wrapped around his neck. Then Han Wook encounters a girl Susan, and protects her from someone bad.
She explains that a Japanese guy, a black guy, a Mexican guy, and a cowboy were the ringleaders in the drug ring. Han Wook ends up defeating them one by one. There also this scene where Susan gets hurt and is close to dying so Han Wook uses acupuncture to save her even though I'm not sure if that really helps at all.
There's also this scene where the cowboy uses a gun but I don't think he even pull's the trigger when shooting. At the end there's this slight twist I won't spoil for you. I think this movie was also made in Korea since I saw a Korean flag in a dojo scene.
Anyway this is a kung fu movie with bad dubbing so if you like that go ahead and watch it. You can even burn it to a DVD-R with this link below. Download the MPEG2 for that just so you'll know.
https://archive.org/details/BruceLeeFightsBackFromTheGrave
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/03/23
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Has nothing to do with Bruce Lee
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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With a ridiculous title clearly aimed at the Bruceploitation fans, Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave was a film I looked into solely for hope of some decent action.
As with all low budget Kung Fu films, Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave incurs the effect of being very cheap looking and having poor audio dubbing which is even worse this time than in the average feature. But what stands out as being especially bad it the visual quality of the film. Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave has a look which is incredibly murky due to the visual qualities of the camera being exceedingly low. The cinematography itself is already rather shaky and takes the cheap angles on everything from the basic dialogue moments to the fight scenes, but the fact that everything is so blurry really damages the experience. A lot of Kung Fu films have low quality visual aesthetic, but Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is some of the lowest that I have seen since the Bolo Yeung film Bloodfight. The standard for low budget Kung Fu films hits a low in Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave due to the visual quality of the cinematography, so it is largely doomed from the start.
Unlike the film Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth, another low budget Kung Fu film with the intention of honouring the memory of Bruce Li, Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave could literally not have less to do with him. Despite the title and the intro sequence where Bruce Lee's tombstone is struck by lightning and an imitator jumps out of the grave, the rest of the film is nothing but a generic and low quality Kung Fu movie. The film is essentially an insult to his memory because it uses his name to sell the movie when it has nothing at all to do with him. It is just a cheap story about a man named Wong Han on the search for answers regarding the death of his brother which has nothing to do with Bruce Lee whatsoever. The idea of Bruce Lee coming back from the grave to do battle sounds like a decent idea for a Kung Fu exploitation film, but as the film has literally nothing to do with it beyond its title and the opening scene, it is really just a misleading film. Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is not a film viewers are likely to see for anything more than hopes of cheap fun regarding its titular concept, but the fact that it is completely absent from the film really makes the entire affair seem pointless. The actual nature of the film is that it simply features a man who looks vaguely like Bruce Lee and the original release title of the film is Visitor in America which seems more appropriate. The fact that US producers threw in a pointless intro scene and changed the title to Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is really pathetic and just reminds people how commercial viewers can get
But what makes it worse is the action in the film. Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave has cheap choreography which is lacking in creativity and mostly makes use of the basic generic punches and kicks that any person who has seen a Chuck Norris movie can pull off. And to make it worse, it is filmed with poor cinematography which as I said has a rough visual quality, as well as the fact that it is edited very poorly which curses it all with a bit much poor quality slow motion effects at some moments. But what is the single worst thing is that there is simply not enough action in Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave. Like I said, the only reason that I watched Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave was in hopes of some of the cheap entertainment value that comes with the action of films like this, and I am sure that countless other viewers would share this notion. So Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave does not have action good enough to warrant having the name Bruce Lee in the title. But what is even worse is that the quantity of the action in Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is way too minimal. Although the action is dull, it still remains the highlight of the film because the lacklustre plot and many other generic elements of the film do nothing to highlight it. Yet there is no action to boast about in the film. Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is given the genre of Bruceploitation as it attempts to capitalise on the legacy of Bruce Lee solely through its title, but it never had a chance of living up to the name because director Lee Doo-yong got too caught up in attempting to tell a lacklustre story to remember that the most important thing in a Kung Fu movie is action. Any person with half a brain would know this, but Lee Doo-yong did not, so Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave ends up coming up short in the action more so than in the plotting which is utterly pathetic. Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave manages to fail as a film if for nothing else then solely because it has far too little action and the quality of it is way too inferior to countless other films.
So due to a misleading title which presents a film which could not have less to do with Bruce Lee as well as a generic plot and fight scenes which are worse in quantity than they are in quality to match the blurry visual quality of the entire feature, Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave is one of the most misleading and forgettable low budget Kung Fu features that I have come across in a long time.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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Money can buy anything. I want money in the bank.
A piece of lightening strikes Bruce Lees grave sparking his powers into a martial arts student. The student is recruited to help bring down a corrupt ring of martial artists who are responsible for the death of his friend. Will the power of Bruce Lee be enough to accomplish this monumental task?
He tried to break a brick by using his head. He hurt himself.
Lee Doo-yong, director of The Pong Trilogy, The Fool 1 & 2, First Son, Spinning Wheel, Silent Assassins, and The Haunted Villa, delivers Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave. The storyline for this picture is nothing special and reminded me a little of Return of the Dragon. The acting was okay but nothing to write home about.
You can pay me some way else.
Like how?
Lets go to your bedroom.
This picture is part of a wonderful box set my father gave me for Christmas last year (2008). Obviously, this picture was marketed to attract fans of Bruce Lee, and they did hire an actor named Bruce Le, but despite the gimmick, the film has a few decent action sequences and well written lines. Overall, this film is an average martial arts picture
but that may be more than youd expect from the title.
We all have to die. Your time is now.
Grade: C
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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