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Game Of Death |  | Director: Robert Clouse
Actors: Bruce Lee, Colleen Camp, Dean Jagger, Gig Young, Robert Wall
Studio: Bonzai Media Corp. RSP
Category: DVD
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Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 68798
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 876543231184
EAN: 0876543231184
ASIN: B0015RCURI
Release Date: March 12, 2008
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Product Description
This film kicks off as a docudrama exploring the final years of Bruce Lee life, featuring all-new revealing interviews with those who worked with him. The second half is the unseen Game of Death footage in its explosive entirety. Overview: Bruce Lee In G.O.D. kicks off as a docudrama which explores the final years of Bruce Lee life, featuring all-new revealing interviews with those who worked with him. The second half of the film is the real treat: Bruce Lee unseen Game of Death footage in its explosive entirety. Raw, uncut and masterfully edited... just the way Bruce intended it!
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Bruce Lee died after shooting only a few scenes of his ambitious Game of Death, but that didn't stop greedy producers from finishing and releasing "Lee's last film," even if he's doubled for most of it. Lee planned an ambitious expression of his fighting philosophy, and his story culminates in the rigorous challenge of the "Game of Death," in which combatants take on successively greater and greater masters as they fight their way to the top of a tower. Only a few fight scenes were completed, and the released film is about a martial arts movie star who takes on a syndicate of drug dealers. Lee faces down the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in an impressive battle, one of the only surviving scenes from Lee's original shoot, while outtakes from his battle with Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon are used along with real-life footage from Lee's funeral. The rest of the film is a mishmash of car chases and clumsily edited fights, complete with awkward inserts of Lee's face. His double remains hidden behind a pair of dark glasses or a motorcycle helmet throughout, and he abruptly changes into a yellow jumpsuit for no reason other than to match Lee's costume in the final scene. --Sean Axmaker
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 An embarassment to Bruce Lee February 1, 2010
C. Sawin (TX)
This was the film Bruce Lee was working on when he died. He had stopped working on this film to work on Enter the Dragon and never had the chance to come back and finish this. The good news is that Lee shot a good 30 minutes worth of footage for Game of Death. The bad news is Robert Clouse came around and tried to make an entire film leading up to the Bruce Lee footage that was shot including Bruce Lee look-a-likes and cardboard cut-outs. The entire film is pretty awful since the story is lame and the acting is over dramatic. I'm surprised Sammo Hung agreed to be a part of this at all. The archived footage of Bruce Lee just seems forced and thrown in to try and make a buck while the actual footage of Lee's funeral just feels tasteless and inconsiderate. Clouse would unfortunately give birth to something that would spawn many films including Bruce Lee clones starring the likes of Bruce Li. The actual Bruce Lee footage is some of his best, but is shown in its entirety in the documentary A Warrior's Journey included in the special edition of Enter the Dragon. If you're a Bruce Lee fan, don't waste your time with this. Stick to the films he actually completed and watch A Warrior's Journey to see the reconstruction of Lee's intended cut of this film.
A mob boss tries to muscle in October 6, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
The first scene is a rare fight between Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee.
Late in a reenactment of the last scene of "Fist of Fury"
that actor Bruce Lee is playing is shot in the face.
He stages his death and sets out to exact his revenge.
His girl friend is kidnapped sparking the final showdown.
This movie has many later martial arts stars in it and is the last Bruce Lee
movie as he died under mysterious circumstances during the filming.
 excellent pkging & shape.. Thank you sooo much :) June 25, 2009
Jacque Kincaid (USA)
The dvd was shipped in the time frame, perfect packaging & shape of dvd. Thank you & I would order from you again :)
its not Lee's concept, but its not a bad movie...if you let it be May 25, 2009
G. Harper (Georgia)
Most people are pissed (and rightly so) that this is Not what Bruce Lee had envisioned the film to be, he died suddenly in 1973 and what remained was just unfinished ideas.
Most of the footage left shot was re-takes after re-takes being Lee was such a perfectionist.
In a Warriors Story documentary, you see the remaining footage edited together nicely in what would have been the ending of the movie.
That being said........the directors of Games of Death did not have access to Lee's notes or what his vision was for the movie, this movie came out in 1978....5 full years after he died, and who knows when they actually started on it...1976? who knows.
What you get is a decent story line, good Amircian actors, good mucic score. Actually the production quality of this movie ranks about the best of any Lee movie (exception Enter the Dragon).
The stand in are good.
If you just watched this movie for the very first time and knew NOTHING about its background, you'd say it wasnt bad at all.
What we get is a directors vision of a movie and uses the last footage of Bruce Lee, to me thats not bad.
I do wish the director used all of the Lee footage, and got them other 2 guys with him back to make it a better movie, but it is what it is.
BUT I must say this.........now that the original Bruce Lee notes and ideas and lost footage has been found.
Please Hollywood.....or Harvest Moon Productions, make a authentic "Games Of Death" to the best of your abilities, making it what Lees vision was. Using todays computer enhancements and technology, Im sure a decent film came be rendered......actually, one could almost make a version themselves on their own personal computer using all the footage available, maybe someone will.
Meh April 9, 2009
yupyup (Tempe, AZ)
Not one of Bruce Lee's best. Mostly because its clearly not him throughout most of the movie.
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