Game of Death

1979 "Bruce Lee challenges the underworld to a Game of Death."
5.9| 1h41m| R| en| More Info
Released: 08 June 1979 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Revenue: 0
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A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Console best movie i've ever seen.
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Kirpianuscus for me , it is the film of a single scene. because, from childhood, except the fight between Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul - Jabbar, nothing else could be interesting. sure, it is not a sin. because it is the film of the Bruce Lee choreography. because the story is only a pretext. and it is enough for impress a precise target . all is well known from the other films of Bruce Lee. and this fact is the good motif for could not define it as a bad movie. because, from the first scenes, you knows - it is only a large collection of clichés. junk ? off course. but this verdict is less well choice if you do not ignore the contemporary films, with the significant exceptions, from Hollywood.
Phoenix Star Let's face it - no one can finish Game of Death in the same way Bruce Lee would've done it. One would think that if anyone could've come the closest to his vision it had to be Robert Clouse, the director of "Enter The Dragon". Sadly if you've seen his version of it, you'll notice that his contribution is, lightly put, a disaster. Its shameless attempts at camouflaging the fact that Bruce Lee wasn't already part of it are commonly known: The infamous Cardboard-cutout, the doubles that don't look at all like Bruce, the shades, the beards, the recycled footage from past films, hilarious editing and the list goes on. Everyone knows it and everyone laughs at it.The only saving grace is the footage Bruce had already filmed. These are truly great fights, but they are way overshadowed by the poor quality of the rest of the movie. You never get the feeling like you are watching one whole movie, rather than a mess of two movies.The first half hour is though to sit-through and I was almost overwhelmed with boredom. It desperately lacks Bruces' charisma and his sense of direction and it goes to show that he was the true mastermind behind "Enter the Dragon". The original footage was also terribly dubbed, at least in the version I saw. Even for someone who is used to bad dubbing of HK movies, this one was exceptionally annoying and off.The good thing is that you can find the Bruces' original, unedited footage online or on DVD, and it's best watched that way, with minimal editing from third parties and without some other directors involvement. There's roughly 40 minutes of it and it has scenes that didn't make it into Robert Clouses version. Now this is the good stuff one expects from a Bruce Lee film. I imagine this could've been his best movie to its date, even better than "Enter The Dragon". Its fights are awesome, full of memorable ideas and they are brimming with Bruces' charisma and intensity. Clouses Version gets a 3 out of 10 only because of the so-bad-it's-good factor. If you want some genuine Bruce Lee action; go for the unedited footage. Even at its unfinished state it's light-years ahead of this one.
atlasmb If you have ever seen Bruce Lee in a film, don't bother watching this one. This film is a travesty and an insult to the genre. If you are a film buff, skip this film, too. They pasted together archival footage, used embarrassing doppelgangers, and so obviously inserted heads on top of bodies, so it looks like a jigsaw puzzle.Did the legitimate actors who appeared in this film really know what they were getting themselves into? I hope not, but some might have been hanging on to their careers by their fingertips.Wiseman say "It is better to watch Enter the Dragon thirty times than to see this film once."
Lee Eisenberg Bruce Lee had filmed some footage for "The Game of Death" before he filmed "Enter the Dragon". Since Lee died after filming the latter, they couldn't complete the former as he had intended. Instead, they used the footage that he had filmed plus new footage containing stand-ins to create the completed movie. The result is fun but it's obvious that the stand-ins are just that. There's even a scene where Lee's face is obviously superimposed! Other than that, it's pretty fun when the martial arts are taking place. It's about what you'd expect. A bone-chilling scene presages how Bruce Lee's son later died. But mostly the movie is the typical chop-socky entertainment that we like in Hong Kong cinema. Lee's yellow outfit looks like the inspiration for what Uma Thurman wore in "Kill Bill". A lot of neat stuff, and Colleen Camp is a real looker.