![]() ![]() For some strange reason HKL decided to use the Cantonese sound dub ( where a Cantonese track is not present on this disc) for the duel between Bruce and Dan Inosanto. A guilty pleasure to be enjoyed, but shhh! Don't tell a soul.Ī very clean remastered anamorphic print in Dolby Digital 5:1 sound. I think of it as the ULTIMATE Bruceploitation flick. If this had been a Bruce Li movie it would have been acceptable, though still tasteless. I could go on and on.The main problem is that it just isn't a Bruce Lee film. I haven't the time and space to point out all that's bad in this film so I'll just say the following: 'Head in Mirror shot', so-called US 'Stars', plot (insane showbiz agent terrorizes personalities.get me Dale Winton and Carol Vorderman's agent NOW!), funeral footage-terrible taste. The locker room fight with Bob Wall and Kim Tai Jung is terrific even with the ill-matched close-ups of Bruce and the repeated frames kicking sequence.Bob's fight with Sammo Hung is also fun and WWF style camp to boot!Obviously it's not all good. ![]() There ARE a couple of good action scenes in there too. In hindsight he did an admirable but thankless task.The opening/closing credits and John Barry's music give the film a real touch of class and are easily comparable with the best of Maurice Binder's 007 title sequences. He was under orders to use as LITTLE of the footage as possible and remove all traces of Bruce's co stars James Tien and Chieh Yuan. Bruce's own editing notes) by Alan Patillo (UFO, Space 1999 etc.). Sure, it was only an eleven minute segment edited without the aid of a safety net (i.e. Before you start ringing my Psychiatrist I will try and explain why.Without this movie, we would have NEVER seen ANY of the real Game of Death footage( many set out to find the real film included in this package). As a connesiur of bad films and a liking for being controversial, I'll stick my neck out and say I have a perverse liking for this film. The illegitimate offspring of Raymond Chow and Robert Clouse. ![]() The movie that Bruce Lee fan's love to hate, Game Of Death. ![]()
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