| Who said the art of disrespecting but in intent respecting the immortal legacy of Bruce Lee was dead? Made way, way, WAY after any trend of Bruceploitation moviemaking that gave us Tower of Death, Bruce Lee Against Supermen and Bruce The Superhero to name but a very select few, Joseph Lai steps in to stir things up a little. Made with a purpose, here's filmmakers solely after nailing the checklist of random Bruce Lee imitation tangents the flick must have in order to have the video box art fulfill its promise (plus go-carts and drunken boxing comes included). Rest is filler that is allowed to be deadly boring to the point that you wanna slit your wrists. Yes, watch the arguably talented Dragon Sek turn up in the yellow tracksuit for no good reason and play a sifu that essentially IS Bruce Lee... also for no apparent reason. Add onto that a pagoda finale with a pretty much terrific fight between Dragon, Billy Chow and the barbwire-clad room. It's stupid but fun flashes of an art of exploitation I for one thought was only possible in the 70s. When not indulging in this Bruceploitation-worthy content, convoluted plotting about a computer design of a Bruce Lee game, bootleggers out for it, Billy Chow trying to prove to the world that he can get somewhere with his fighting ability and talent such as Roy Cheung being/feeling totally wasted is on prominent display. |
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