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Game of Death

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An actor (Bruce Lee) shot by gangsters fakes his death, has plastic surgery and seeks kung-fu revenge.
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Almar Haflidason BBC.com Sep 26, 2001
3/5
...the standard of the choreography is excellent, and the final 20 minutes - which are almost all of Bruce fighting - are well worth holding out for. Go to Full Review
Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Oct 27, 2025
3/10
Though it barely works as a movie, a handful of fight scenes are undeniably entertaining, including a warehouse brawl with motorcycles and a showdown at the Red Pepper Restaurant. Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Mar 8, 2021
1.5/4
appropriates Lee's completed fight footage and awkwardly weds it to a hackneyed plot in order to squeeze whatever profits could still be wrung from his legacy Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Aug 26, 2020
0.5/5
An all around unfortunate and ill-conceived endeavor, it's a Lee feature for completists only. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Aug 8, 2020
2/4
The majority of the rescued Lee footage comes at the end -- this part of the film is spectacular and almost makes up for the dreariness of everything that precedes it. Go to Full Review
Ed Travis Cinapse Aug 5, 2020
Game Of Death would be an unconscionable tragedy if it weren't for those glorious moments when the true legend shines so brightly for one last fight. Go to Full Review
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Michael L @toejam2020 Oct 6, 2026 Ive always loved this movie-just for the ending sequence-Its not a great movie,but the 3 floors of fighting at the end of the movie make it worth watching See more Thomas B @Necrom Jul 9, 2026 A movie cobbled together with footage Bruce Lee shot before he died and the use of doubles to try to exploit Bruce Lee’s legacy. The use of actual footage of his funeral is tasteless and disgusting. Hard to recommend unless it’s in a box set with his other movies. See more Brandon K @TheKeizer Mar 20, 2026 The first hour is a little rough, but the actor who played bruce lee did a pretty decent job. Things start to really pick up in the second half of the movie which features actual footage from bruce. The ending makes everything worth it. See more Elvis D @Elvis-Del-Valle Feb 23, 2026 Game Of Death ocupa el último escalón debajo de las películas más emblemáticas de Bruce Lee, pero aún sigue manteniendo relevancia por su manera de homenajear y despedir a su estrella principal. Como película en sí es mediocre y pudo haber funcionado mejor como una película individual sin relación con Bruce Lee. Pero debajo de esa mediocridad hay un meta comentario sobre la Bruceploitation y un paralelismo sobre su vida que hace que si merezca algo de reconocimiento. Es una de esas películas que no son del todo buenas, pero tienen un significado influyente que las hace necesarias de conocer. No es la película que Bruce Lee tenía en mente hacer cuando vivía, pero es una decente despedida para su corta carrera cinematográfica. Bruce Lee pudo haber llegado más lejos, pero dejo un impacto bastante fuerte. Lo que vino después gracias a su influencia demuestra que Bruce Lee no murió en vano. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 6/10. See more Yash B @yashbansal Sep 14, 2024 The more I read about "Game of Death," the more I understand why it is the movie that it is. By nature, it is messy because essentially a plot was put together to make some footage Bruce Lee had shot make sense. I think the movie is super silly and ridiculous in a lot of ways, and for the first hour or so I just found myself a little frustrated by it. That being said, once the final act starts, and I actually get a chance to see Bruce Lee do what he did best, the movie is entertaining. This is easily the technically worst film I have seen from the Bruce Lee library, but it still features some great martial arts, despite it not being for a super long runtime. Overall, if the movie was much shorter and a little more effort was put into putting it together, I think there is something kind of fun and fascinatingly bizarre here, and worth seeing despite all the flaws. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 Apr 28, 2024 Bruce Lee’s last movie has some moments of entertainment but the bad script and the laughable ways them filming around the tragic death of the star makes it the only dud in his filmography See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An actor (Bruce Lee) shot by gangsters fakes his death, has plastic surgery and seeks kung-fu revenge.
Director
Robert Clouse
Producer
Raymond Chow Man-Wai
Screenwriter
Robert Clouse
Production Co
Columbia
Rating
R
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 24, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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