| My personal disappointment with this release of the film (UK DVD) is the quality of the film print (which is one of the worst I've experienced DVD wise though there are worse prints out there e.g. prints where the image is completely damaged {numbers, cigar burns, scratches} and where colours are hardly existant and all you see is one hue of a particular colour plastered all over the screen making everything seem single-coloured and rather monotone).
To rub salt onto old wounds, there's even a nunchaku scene which has been trimmed (ironically when the film details Bruce's making of Way Of The Dragon, ironic because just like in the original UK version of Bruce Lee's classic movie, as soon as James Ho takes off his jacket we immediately cut to what happens after the nunchaku encounter). It's kind of a shame really as the concept of the fight scene seemed ace: Bruce utilizing a nunchaku to counteract the mace of a Karateka.
Missed opportunity on behalf of the filmmakers to add some depth to the film if they took the film more seriously (i.e. make it as credible as it is incredible), but still a fun effort that should please Bruce Lee fans and chop-socky aficionados who don't seem to mind watching films where a star is exploited for the gain of big bucks and shallow entertainment - though having said that there's much better in that regard (especially within the realm of Bruceploitation fare...or really farce)!
UK fans beware, the UK DVD entitled Bruce Lee: True Story is not the same as the American disc as not only are the special features related to the film absent, but it's not even the same film (it's Bruce Lee's Secret which is also available in the UK as The Bruce Lee Story and will be released on a new disc entitled Bruce Lee's Secret) despite featuring the same cover art and even stills from this film (e.g. the electro-shock therapy bit). |