Watch Game of Death For Free

Sadly Over-hyped

Fantastic!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Game of Death (1978) ** (out of 4)Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is a popular action star who is being forced by a mob ruler to sign with them. He refuses and has several attempts on his life so he stages his on-set murder so that he can find out who is behind all of it and seek revenge.GAME OF DEATH is perhaps the most controversial kung fu movie ever released. In case you don't know, Lee started filming this movie in 1972 but put it on the back burner to go film ENTER THE DRAGON. Before he could finish GAME OF DEATH he died and the footage pretty much remained unreleased until the producer decided to try and build a movie around it. What you have is GAME OF DEATH being released in 1978 with the footage of Lee surrounded by actors filling in for him.I can certainly understand the hatred that some people have for this movie and I can understand why some don't consider it a real Bruce Lee movie. At the same time, there is actual footage of him used here and it's quite excellent so it's somewhat hard not to recommend the movie even if the producers were obviously trying to make a cash grab with what they did. There's no question that there are some embarrassing moments here that put this closer in the category of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE rather than THE CROW.The biggest problem with this film is that they simply don't have too much of a movie. There's maybe twenty-five or so minutes of Lee footage here and the rest is done by an actor who doesn't look anything like him and more times than not he's wearing glasses or even a beard. Trying to cover up the fact that this isn't Lee just makes the film look really cheap and it's so poorly done that you can't help but laugh at it. I'd also argue that all of the new footage just doesn't contain anything interesting in it. Heck, Chuck Norris gets a credit and appears less than a minute worth of running time.As far as what makes the film worth watching, it's certainly the footage of Lee, which takes up the ending here. This includes some terrific fight sequences and it's hard not to recommend the movie based on these scenes alone. Lee, decked out in that now legendary yellow outfit, does a great job during the fighting sequences and especially his big battle against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This entire sequence is wonderful to watch as are the other fights. How can a Lee fan not be thrilled by these scenes?GAME OF DEATH is exploitation at its highest power but the ending is just so great and so thrilling that the film is still worth watching.

This is perhaps the most unique film by Bruce Lee, which is made after his death. Some stand-ins are used in the film. A lot of scenes, including the major fight scenes, are actually played by the stand-ins, not by Bruce Lee himself. But still, there is a very entertaining acrobatic fight sequence in a locker room.

Robert Clouse, the same guy who directed "Enter the Dragon" also directed this movie. Bruce died after making "Enter the Dragon," but Clouse and other Hollywood pimps felt they could use excerpts to include in "Game of Death." Kareem Abdul Jabbar is in this one but is no match for the great Master Lee. Bruce has to fight his way through a maze of different kinds of fighters, tricks, traps and other trivia. I think that Chuck Norris' "The Octagon" might have ripped off some ideas from "Game of Death." It's an interesting movie, but there's so much editing and manipulating to replace Bruce's image that any aficionado will be bored senseless. Let Bruce rest in peace, but the movie is certainly worth watching. Bruce Lee fan or not

Billy Lo, is a box office draw. His girlfriend, Ann Morris is a singer who is also climbing to the top. Now it seems the syndicate wants Billy and Ann to join their "management firm". Billy knows that they will be treated like property, so he refuses and tells her to do the same. They try to "encourage" him to join but he still refuses. But they persist, in more and more violent ways, so he must stop them, permanently. He is even more hesitant to do that but when an attempt on his life is made, he fakes his death and alters his appearance, and decides to go after the syndicate; taking them out one at a time......Its a controversial film for sure, and you can either be in two camps, the one who feel that its a tribute to the legend, or the other whom feel that its a blatant cash in on the man.It is a cash in on the man more than a tribute, but the way he is stood in for, is the main reason to watch the film leading up to the genuine footage of Lee. When a cut out of an actors face is stuck on to mirror to depict him being there, its a film with a lot of gusto.Add footage from other Lee movies, his funeral of all things, and a stand in who wears sunglasses and sits in the dark all the time, you have the making of a cult classic.But the narrative is all over the place, and the story is a bit rubbish. All the film really has going for it is the wonderful score, the outfit that inspired Kill Bill, and the brilliant last fifteen minutes.Watch this the once, just for the ridiculousness of it all, and then get the DVD, and watch the 40 minute footage that was originally filmed.Its brilliant stuff...