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Game of Death
Game of Death

6.4

Game of Death

R·1978·101m

Summary

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Crew

Director, Writer

Bruce Lee

Director, Writer

Robert Clouse

Reviews

DanDare

DanDare

May 30, 2017

6

Billy Lo is a famous action martial arts film star who is being courted by a crime syndicate. After constantly rejecting their advances they try to kill him and fail. Lo fakes his own death and goes underground to get back at the criminal gang.

Bruce Lee only half finished a version of this film before he died in 1973. Five years later director Robert Clouse who made Enter the Dragon with Lee completed the film.

In order to do this, he used the existing footage with Lee, also used stock footage from previous Lee films and got a double and shot new footage with a new story line.

The result is a choppily edited film despite getting Hollywood actors such as Dean Jagger and Gig Young as well as John Barry to do the musical score. In fact Jagger gets some awful dialogue.

The new footage with the double is leaden and so are the action scenes. Only the Bruce Lee shot sequences bring the film to live.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

Cantonese

Budget:

$850,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Keywords

martial arts
sword fight
revenge
fighting
east asian lead
one against many
action hero