Take me now Lord! This is a film in which Bruce Le (that is Le...not Lee) takes on the mantle of the real legend, Bruce Lee, and goes through a fighting journey loosely based on Lee's original concept and filmed in the actual location Lee had originally intended to use.
Like Bruce Lee's famous "Game of Death", this character enters a pagoda building where every floor is guarded by a fighter that is supossedly the master of a particular style of martial arts. That includes the Nunchaku master, the Snake fist fighter, the Wing chun expert and a master of the mystic art of Silat. After defeating all the opponents in this "Tower of death" Le must now face the might of Bolo. But we already know the outcome! :o)
First time I watched this film I was about 9 years old and I thought I was watching Bruce Lee because that's how it was passed as on TV. Many years later I had this memory of seeing a film where Bruce Lee takes on a whole banch of people (like he always does!) in a level-structured style. So when I saw this DVD I bought it immediately... (Why Lord! Tell me why?!)
It's funny because I already knew there where a lot of Bruce Lee lookalikes out there who even had similar names, like Bruce Lai and Bruce Loe, but these people proved masters of disguise naming their star Bruce Le...and having the cheek to even put him in the famous yellow tight suit....What's even worse, the sounds of "woooaw" and "eeeeee" (and all the roaring sounds that these people make when they fight anyway) are the actual voice overs that Bruce Lee had made in his films... So yes, I was disappointed that the film I always remembered as a rare Bruce Lee film was actually a well wrapped fake, despite the fact that the DVD actually says in the synopsis that this is Bruce Le...
Why would you want to buy this film? Erm... well... erm... hmmm...well... erm... acutally... don't buy it! :o) Well for one, if you are a Bruce Lee fan then you get to see the real story that Bruce Lee had in mind. You also get to see the real location and a concept that, if shot properly, could (that's a COULD) have been a nice martial arts film. The dialogs and the voices are funny at times (when they are meant to be serious!) but that happens in almost every asian film that is dubbed in english, and if you can get past this fact then there are some good fighting scenes in there... or maybe just acrobatics. In any case, you will laugh a lot! And last, if you're buying this for your kids, they will love it. It's the idea of someone fighting his way through a tower of super-duper-killer fighters just by using his kung fu skills... WOOOOOOOAAWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Production Year: 1972 - Martial Arts - Director: Bruce Lee - Original Language: English\Cantonese\Chinese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Jon T. Benn
Production Year: 1981 - Martial Arts - Director: Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Masahiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama
Martial Arts - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Bruce Lee, Sho Kosugi, James Ryan, Jim Kelly, Jimmy Wang Yu, Bolo Yeung, Christopher Lee
Dude you made me laugh! I know what you mean about the funny voices and the look alikes that were 1minute stars after Bruce Lee. I've seen this one coz my kids bought it and yes there was some furniture destroyed round the house! Good review man, you captured the essence of these movies.
angiebabyqueen 24.06.2005 09:12
that was a good review, but could do with some more description though. angiex
Lucie_S1984 22.06.2005 15:33
Not sure it would be my kind of thing, Lucie xxx P.S. Check out your guestbook!
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