SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Leofwine_draca BRUCE LEE'S SECRET is a straight Bruceploitation film starring Bruce Li. The setting is San Francisco and Li plays a restaurant worker who runs afoul of the usual gangs of thugs determined to test out their kung fu skills on our hero. There's a mix of training footage, some comedy involving kids and neighbours, and a whole array of fight scenes shot in typically 'street' locations such as parks, car parks, and alleyways. The action is plentiful and quite fun, although overly staged and a little slow by modern standards; Li has always been my favourite Bruceploitation actor so I was quite pleased to see him here. The supporting cast includes cameoing stars Hwang Jang Lee, Carter Wong, and Roy Horan.

capnbobbert i saw Bruce lee: a dragon story [1974} and i started to cry because it disgusted me. I just read Bruce Li's mini biography on here and he stated that he won't play Bruce Lee's part because he knows he could never be him, yet i still ponder why he took the part of Bruce Lee in this film. In this movie Bruce Lee apparently is having an affair with a lady named Betty Ping who was supposedly his friend in real life. In the real world, she claimed to have never had any relationship other than a friendship with Bruce Lee so this movie is incorrect on so many levels. I hate these cheesy directors and producers who try to bring Bruce Lee back and trying to gain some money off of his death. It hurts even more because they're telling a false story about him. I mean...how do you think his wife Linda feels? She's watching a false movie about her husband having a love affair with a lady who claimed she never had a love affair with Bruce!!

Space_Mafune In this film we see Bruce Lee wanna-be Bruce Li tackle an army of thugs(who just happen to look like a bunch of bad rejects from a 70s Disco special) lead by Mr. Grace(who just happens to resemble John Travolta if he were fat and had a scar on his face). The fights are pretty good but seriously lack credibility. In any case, this movie is very humorous to watch but the humor isn't of the intentional type. Good fun if you like this sort of thing.

modius Bruce Lee's death caused a large enough shadow on the kung fu martial arts movie world that, for some obsecure reason, film-makers wanted to continue making films that "had" bruce lee in them - for their own ends.Of course this lead to disastrously bad Bruce Lee imitators (i.e. Bruce Li, Dragon Lee, etc) that would some regard as just lambasting and insulting to the Bruce Lee name - fortunately there was one Bruce Lee imitator (Sammo Hung) that would make a film worthy of Lee himself in the film "Enter the Fat Dragon".Anyway, to this film. Firstly, if you've seen The Big Boss and/or Way of the Dragon you'll soon draw parallel's to the plot and the general feeling that you've been seen it all before.I won't go into the plot, because basically its the same as Way of the Dragon (hero works in resturant that is taunted by some big boss type karate school with all the racial stuff thrown in).The general 70s cliche of bad kung fu movies is apparent throughout this film, you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the clothes, the acting and the dialogue. Perhaps the worst possible example is the fact that every other character (barring a majority of the chinese) are called bob - I'm not kidding!Admittedly, the fight sequences aren't too bad - but when you consider the only person to make a dent to the hero is veteran Hong Kong Bad guy Hwang Jang Lee you have to question the sanity of this film...why bother remaking way of the dragon when its already done?Now of course there are silly moments throughout the film which beggers belief - why does Bob 'Bruce Lee' (the hero) who knows of Bruce Lee's paradigm of "kung fu is like running water" only become to remember of it when he's beaten. Not only that, as soon as Bob finds out what the secret is, he becomes Bruce Lee - doing war cries, doing that thing with his nose - all because he's discovered "kung fu is running water!"Another example is this: Bruce Lee tried to step outside kung fu's barriers (this is why he wore the yellow/black jumpsuit in Game of Death) and would follow that philosophy - yet Bob 'Bruce Lee' dresses in a typically traditional kung fu styled uniform and fights the big boss bad guy who wears trainers...Anyway, philosophy aside, this is a very bad film that tries to cash in on both Way of the Dragon and The Big Boss - the highlights are no doubt the numerous fight sequences - however they always seem to be the same thing (i.e. bunch of fighters gets hurt - their teacher goes and kicks butt, but ends up half dead - his teacher/pupils go along and fight and get beat up and then their...well you get the idea)Perhaps the humorless resturant scenes or the unintentional comedy of a small kid manages to do special tricks with a nunchaka and uses it makes it worth seeing, I dunno - I'd personally rather see the original, enigmatic Bruce Lee in action.Overall: 1/10 (avoid...please!)