![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately for Bruce Lee fans, according to ScreenRant, the entire 40 minutes that Lee shot for Game of Death in 1972 are now available to watch without the lame bookends. It’s a classic showdown, with the 5’8” star proving to his 7’2” opponent that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Bruce Lees real fighting abilities there remain some important issues. While the entire pagoda fight is great, the highlight of the movie is Lee’s duel with Hakim, a hulking giant of a martial arts star played to perfection by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The half-century-long public debate about how good a fighter Bruce Lee really. Here he dons the famous yellow tracksuit that would later inspire the wardrobe in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Regardless of the questionable ethics involved in the film’s completion, the scenes that Lee did film are fantastic and some of the most iconic in his career. Whether it was anyone’s right to finish Lee’s movie without him is one thing, but including actual footage from Lee’s funeral is just plain old bad taste. It’s the result of a low-budget cobbling together of a 1972 film that Lee left unfinished when he died, and a wrap-around story featuring not-so-convincing stand-ins for the deceased star. Bruce Lee uses a bo staff against Hans guards in Enter the Dragons cave fight, disarming a bo staff from one guard and using it to hold off a group of opponents. ![]()
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