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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

First things first: this is not a Bruce Lee film. The opening sequence makes it look like a brief interlude with old martial arts footage being used to maintain the interest of the viewer, when all of a sudden the viewer realizes 15 minutes later that it's not stopping. It occurs to the viewer that he/she is watching a feature presentation of some kind, though, exactly what that feature hopes to accomplish is beyond all comprehension.The basic storyline is this: a journalist is at the "World Karate Championships" interviewing various D-list fighters and washed up athletes as to who will take on the crown of the recently deceased Bruce Lee. The movie then proceeds to take on an eerie biographic quality to it, tracking Bruce Lee's youth and development as a fighter with doctored footage that has been overdubbed to make it seem legit. The story drifts between the stories of Bruce, his family, the legacy of his grandfather, and the journalist (in the present day) narrating the climax to the fight at the end of the day to determine the new grand champion.Don't bother watching it. The fight was terrible, the overdubbing is cruelly plagiaristic, and the real-time acting is on par with the adult film industry gaining popularity at the time.

There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said about "Fist of Fear, Touch of Death". Take a screenwriter who has never written for any production before (or since for that matter) and has no knowledge of the subject whatever, several B-list or lower celebrities who need a paycheck, a few of the worst actors ever to grace a screen, unrelated and unwatchable stock footage then give the entire mess over to an apparently blind and deaf editor with some sort of palsy and call it a "Documentary". Calling this pile of garbage a "Documentary" is like trying to sell a small child's mud pies in a gourmet bakery.I must call special attention to the first fight scene in the movie. Bill Louie pulls an opponent's eyes out and "in a dazzling piece of showmanship" tosses them to the crowd. It's just one gut-bustingly funny moment in a movie full of them. Also of note is Hollywood Browde. In slightly more than 60 seconds on screen, she manages to pull of the worst bit of acting I've seen in a lifetime of watching and enjoying bad movies. She should receive a "Razzie Lifetime Achievement Award" based solely on this performance.There aren't words in the language to describe this thing. Film schools should show this as an example of everything one could do wrong while making a movie. You can't fully appreciate the depths of bad this movie aspires to until you have seen it. And you should. As a "Documentary" it's horrible but as a comedy, well, as a comedy it's GOLD, friends. Pure gold.

Ah, the Dragon and the Cobra. If you were seriously into the martial arts genre, popularized in part by Enter the Dragon several years earlier, of course you'd call it crap and insulting to Bruce Lee's memory. If you were to look a little deeper, though, it doesn't look like it was meant to be anything more than a lampoon of the sport. Look at the scenes with the Flying Fatman and the dude whose eyeballs got plucked out. Were these actually real events or staged to make some sort of point? And what of the "early" Bruce Lee footage? Was it meant to be a serious biography? If the director were really ashamed of his work, he would have been likely to have himself billed as Alan Smithee so as to avoid embarrassment. But the dude who played Jasper Milktoast in this flick was willing to take his lumps, whereas many other directors would not. And before you call this crap, take a look at what's in our theaters today! Plainly put: foolish, asinine, retarded, lame, juvenile… in other words, if you want good clean mindless fun, FIVE STAR DIAMOND!

I bought this movie at Wal-Mart in the bargain bin. I was expecting a Bruce Lee movie but what I got was disappointment and a piece of crap. I was outraged that they used Bruce Lee's image on the cover to sell this crap. It was false advertising and blasphemy to use Bruce Lee's image in this way. The 5 dollar price tag should have warned me. It was a dirty trick to make me buy a piece of crap. The plot revolves around a martial arts match that will supposedly reveal the successor of Bruce Lee. A Washed out martial artist who claims to have been friends with Bruce Lee and states that Bruce was killed by the vibrating palm. They use editing and poor voice over to make Bruce Lee say things like he practiced karate. They use this technique to make false interviews and conversations with Bruce. Bruce Lee never practiced karate. Karate is a Japanese fighting form. They also use footage from different movies such as a hong Kong action film to use as Bruce Lee's great grandfather.The movie can't decide whether it is a documentary or not,it keeps switching styles. It also has 3 movies nested in one. First the documentary, then the Bruce lee story, then that revolves into something else. then It shows random clips. The qualities are not consistent. The movie is filled with false information such as Bruce lee taking karate lessons and his great grandfather being a great samurai (samurai are Japanese, Bruce Lee is Chinese). Some of the battles are laughably bad and terribly ridiculous (A guy gets kicked in the crotch about 4 times then gets his eye balls pulled out).all in all avoid this film unless you really enjoy bad movies, or want to see how they perverted Bruce Lee's image to make some cheap profit.