Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Yazmin
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
SnoopyStyle
Lightning strikes Bruce Lee's grave and his spirit is reborn. Wong Han (Bruce K.L. Lea) arrives in LA and is attacked. He finds his brother Ji-Hyeok Han killed. When he's attacked at the studio, the police arrests him instead. He's bailed out by sinister Scott Li who proposes a missing person job but he rejects Li. He's walking the streets of LA in mourning when he rescues waitress Susan Clark from an attacker. She turns out to be a follower of his late brother. She recalls a large lawsuit which destroyed his brother's business and five mysterious strangers who met him right before his death.Lea has the look of corporate middle management. He's definitely copying many of Bruce Lee's mannerisms including his patented tasting his own blood move. At the time after Bruce Lee's death, this is one of many copycat exploitations. The problem is that Bruce Lee has nothing to do with most of this movie. Only the lightning strike opening and the Bruce Lea name suggest the great martial arts legend. While it's not a crime, it's close to a misdemeanor to fight film culture. The plot itself is solid B-movie material until it becomes boring. There are jarring disjointed elements and unbelievable convenience. I don't know how Susan can afford that big house as a waitress. The actors are amateurishly overacting at times that is when Mr. Lea can actually emote. The villains remind me of the Village People. The first half is able to draw me in but the second half fails to maintain any momentum.
Nick Retzlaff
This is another strange movie from the public domain. It's a part of these "Bruceploitation" films made after Bruce Lee's death to try and keep the memory alive. It starts with a blot of lighting hitting Bruce Lee's Grave, and that's as close as it is to Bruce Lee. Then it begins with a kung fu instructor, Han Wook, played by Bruce K.L. Lea. He goes to Las Vegas to find his brother and when he does. He finds out he was a part of an opium ring and died. Han Wook takes what I think is his brother's ashes or bones in this box wrapped around his neck. Then Han Wook encounters a girl Susan, and protects her from someone bad. She explains that a Japanese guy, a black guy, a Mexican guy, and a cowboy were the ringleaders in the drug ring. Han Wook ends up defeating them one by one. There also this scene where Susan gets hurt and is close to dying so Han Wook uses acupuncture to save her even though I'm not sure if that really helps at all. There's also this scene where the cowboy uses a gun but I don't think he even pull's the trigger when shooting. At the end there's this slight twist I won't spoil for you. I think this movie was also made in Korea since I saw a Korean flag in a dojo scene. Anyway this is a kung fu movie with bad dubbing so if you like that go ahead and watch it.
Space_Mafune
An oriental Kung Fu expert named Wong Han (played by Bruce K.L. Lea) travels to America at the invite of his long-time friend and former Kung Fu school training partner only to learn his friend is now dead, apparently the result of a suicide. Suspecting foul play, Wong Han sets out to bring down a gang of strange characters he suspects are responsible for his friend's death but when he attempts to do so, there's also quite a few unexpected surprises awaiting our hero.Despite the title referring to Bruce Lee, he actually has nothing whatsoever to do with this movie apart from an extremely cheesy, silly opening introduction title sequence in which we see a man resembling Lee jump out of a grave with the headstone behind him bearing Lee's name. What this movie is actually about is a man coming to America trying to avenge his fallen friend while protecting his deceased friend's last belongings. There he befriends a beautiful young woman named Susan (played by the delectable Deborah Chaplin) who tries to help him in his quest. However, the gang of colorful thugs, a true assortment of weird characters if there ever was one, are after him and Susan for some reason unknown to Wong Han and go all out in their efforts to bring them down meaning Wong Han has to constantly fight for his own survival while also trying to protect Susan.As you can tell, the basic plot for this movie isn't half-bad. The Kung Fu fighting scenes featuring Bruce Lea, who throws a mean-looking kick, also proved much better than expected although they fall rather short in comparison to the one and only Bruce Lee. The major problem here is that the movie seems to go on a bit too long, the pace feeling a little too slow, which isn't helped by the fact there's too much obvious filler footage of people simply driving vehicles from place to place. Also the colorful villainous assortment of characters Wong Han tries to bring down never evolve beyond anything other than one-dimensional caricatures.
paolo_davies
***SPOILERS***'Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave' or 'BLFBFG' to it's fans, is a superb and often overlooked example of Kung Fu Cinema at it's finest. I would dare to say that Bruce Lea at points actually surpasses Bruce Lee himself when it comes to sheer charisma and fighting ability. The film is chock full of exciting moments - Bruce v. The rapist springs immediately to mind. (Now I know where the Wachowskis stole most of their fight choreography - shame on you, boys). The film also sports a superb screenplay, which is highlighted during the extremely tense interrogation sequence during which Bruce is grilled by a pair of extremely tough LAPD cops. You really feel his pain during this section of the REALLY GOOD STORY. Suffice to say, any film where the protagonist carries the ashes of his dead sensei around his neck for the entirety of the film gets my vote. I urge you to seek out this classic immediately! ********************/10 (it's that good)