Game Of Death

I Always Look upon Game Of Death as a pretty Good Action flick Though really This is still without Doubt a Bruce Lee Movie. Made after The untimely Death of Lee The film makers vision of Game Of Death stands up Quite well on its own. Legendary Hollywood star's Dean Jagger and Hugh OBrian are well supported by The lovely Colleen Camp. Camp's big scene in The movie still gets to me When she sings The song Could This Be The Song I Be Singing Tomorrow a beautiful song and Camp sings it beautiful you really need To get The original soundtrack To This movie which I do have To hear The full version of The song. For The best part of The movie we do have a Bruce Lee lookalike standin Handling all The action fight scenes credit should be given To The film makers for staying faithfully To The Dynamic personality That was Bruce Lee. The final half of The movie comes into it's own as we are Treated To footage of The real Bruce Lee filmed just before Lee got The call To make The martial arts epic Enter The Dragon. The Three outstanding fight scenes in Game Of Death featuring Lee are out of This world Tinged with sadness as The last ever fight scenes put on celluloid by The Legendary Bruce Lee. Extras on The Disc are plenty but nothing really new if you owned The DVD release of This film The blu ray Transfer However is stunning. Had Bruce Lee gone on you get a feel with Game Of Death That This is what His next film would have looked like. you could class This as Enter The Dragon Two Game Of Death Though stands on its own as a Very Good Action film and more important as a final Tribute To The Dynamic Bruce Lee.

The movie is what it is - i can't say i'm a fan honestly - it has 11 mins of new footage of Bruce for the film with bits from his earlier films,, along with a lookie likey.I like Bruce a lot and with so few titles available of martial arts Bruce - it still rates as a must have.Also, The extras do elevate this release quite a lot imo.If your new to Bruce, definetly try this later.Chronological is best imo -Big BossFist of FuryWay of the DragonEnter the DragonGame of Death.if you want just one - Enter the Dragon (though you honestly can't go wrong with any of the others either.)Thank you peeps!

Here is a detailed breakdown of the audio and extras on the 2015 Mediumrare Entertainment Blu-ray of Game Of Death.AudioEnglish - Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo 2.0, Dolby Digital mono 1.0SubtitlesEnglish subtitles can be on or off for any of the audio optionsExtrasCommentary with Hong Kong cinema expert Bey LoganCommentary with Hong Kong cinema expert Mike Leeder (poor sound)Deleted Scenes: Alternative Title Sequence (1:56), Glass House Fight (4:46), Death Threat (0:20), Return to the Boat (0:32), Extended Ending (1:20)Production Photo Gallery (4:45)Rare Archive Photo Gallery (1:59)Dan Inosanto: Warrior and Teacher (10:51)Dan Inosanto: Jeet Kune Do and other Asian Methods of Fighting Seminar (42:08)Taky Kimura: Keeping The Flame Alive (9:50)George Lazenby: Reflections of The Master (7:19)'Game Of Death' outtake footage (3:39)Legacy of the Dragon (48:49)'Game Of Death' re-visited (40 minutes of footage edited as a literal interpretation of Lee's original plan) (39:01)Original UK Theatrical Trailer (5:22)Original Cantonese Theatrical Trailer (3:06)24 page bookletGame Of Death: Bruce Lee's Unfinished MasterpieceThe Allies and Guardians of the Temples in the Game Of Death PagodaActors that were signed to appear in the Game Of DeathDirector and Cast of the 1978 Version: A Tribute to Tang LungRobert Clouse: The Director of Two Bruce Lee Films

The Bruce Lee film that never was a Bruce Lee film. The mismatched stock footage, the terrible stand-ins and other bizarre set ups used throughout this terrible mash of a movie have become almost legendary. Not too mention the bad acting from the main Lee stand - in and the awful fighting cries as dubbed by one Chris Kent. Then we have Colleen Camp (playing Bruce's love interest) doing the worst bit of playing hysterical in a film that is actually hysterical . Just watch that scene between her and Dean Jagger in the hospital garden and you'll know what I mean.Gig Young, a once well respected Hollywood actor - who sadly later became an alcoholic. Here he proves it by slurring his dialogue throughout his scenes in the film. Sadly,not long after finishing the film, Gig shot dead his girlfriend Kim Schmidt, he then turned the gun on himself. Kim also happened to be credited as a script writer for 'Game of Death' and the two had met while making the film. Much of the original fight footage Bruce Lee shot was never used in the 1978 version. I tend to think its because the Director Robert Clouse knew that Lee was a better action director than he was.Just take a look at the unedited version of the fight with Kareem Abdul Jabbar featured in the extras section. That P.O.V shot from the rocking chair is sheer genius. Here in the UK we only got two actual Bruce Lee fights featured in the film. The Lee/ Inosanto Nunchaku clash was cut by our censors on its release. Thankfully its all here in this Blu ray edition. And what of the Blu Ray? Well the quality for a Blu ray is actually pretty poor. There is no way this film has under gone any remastering or been up- scaled in any shape or form. Its the same standard as the Hong Legends release. For all its bad points I have given the film three stars only because this is the uncut version. Looking back, Golden Harvest should have left it alone and released the original footage as part of a documentary. That then would have been viewed as a genuine tribute to Bruce Lee rather than this distasteful mess.