Image of Bruce Lee
Director: Chuan Yang
1978
Action
Some counterfeiters are about to expand their
market. But not all are pleased with the deal. Soon there’s internal fighting
within the gang(s) and of course with the police that wants to stop all of the
crime lords business in Hong Kong. All of the above are highly trained in the
art of Kung-Fu…
I don’t really
know what to make of this. It’s obvious that they tried to cash in on Bruce Lee’s name when they made it but it's
a big fish to swallow. This is so bad that Bruce
Lee never would have been interested in appearing in it anyway. The only
connection with his is in the title really …and there’s someone who think a
cabdriver looks a little bit like Bruce
Lee. There you have it! There isn’t even an attempt to edit in some genuine
fight scenes which could have saved the movie to be honest.
This
release is about as good as an old VHS quality wise. I can live with that but I
want some charisma to make it interesting. Perhaps it would have been better if
they weren’t so eager on exploiting Bruce
Lee. The story could have made it on its own if it were done right. But as
it is now it’s so confusing that it’s very hard to figure out what’s really
happening; who’s fighting against whom and why. I’ve seen it three times by
know and I’m still not certain!
They’ve
thrown in some dude called Bruce Li
to make the deception complete. I wouldn’t say that he’s a very good lookalike
to Bruce Lee though. You could say
that this is like a bad Bruce Lee
flick…without Bruce if you know what
I mean. On the other hand we do have a charismatic actor playing a bad guy. If
there’s any point in watching it at all it’s because of this role by Bolo Yeung during a time when he
appeared in lots of movies.
Continuing
on the negative path I must add that the fight scenes aren’t very good either.
It’s rather bad choreographed and not very entertaining to watch. Still I will consider
the effort when I’ll grade it. It still has something that makes it worth my
will even if I’m not sure if I can pinpoint it. Something more than Bolo Yeung that is…
3/10
No comments:
Post a Comment