Misunderstood...


Am I the only one who realizes that this movie was intended to be a comedy? It was somewhere in between the badly re-dubbed stock-footage (giving us ridiculously inaccurate information) and the scene where a competitor in the fictitious karate tournament pokes out his opponent's eyes and tosses them at the spectators (not to mention the whole stupid concept), that I began to wonder if maybe this movie was deliberately putting me on. I think they (the writers and director) intended to satirize the 'Brucesplotation' sub-genre by showing us how asinine the whole concept is (an entire sub-genre of film created for the soul purpose of exploiting an icon's death for a profit) and then carrying the idea to even more absurd lengths.

Granted it's still not a great film; it's one-joke premise is not particularly funny (unless you think it was intended to be serious), it "barrows" way too much footage from 'The Invincible Super Chan' in an effort of fill out it's runtime and one could even argue that it ends up becoming what the filmmakers originally set out to mock, but regardless of these flaws, I think it deserves a bit of admiration for at least attempting to mock a distasteful, but apparently very popular (they most have been making quite a profit because they sure did make a lot of them) exploitation sub-genre.

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It looks like it was put together in a single day - everything, from concept to casting, to finding old footage, to re-dubbing it to fit some half-a$s storyline written on the spot. If a high school kid put this together I'd consider it a hilarious failure.

I enjoyed it for the karate demonstrations and full contact fight at the end.

It's hard to tell which parts of the movie were the most unnecessary. They needed the Bruce Lee name (I guess), but the Bruce Lee footage was the most ridiculous! Why make him the grandson of a Chinese Samurai? Still, at least the samurai footage had some action to it! And what in the world was Fred Williamson doing there? Was it just to show him in bed with a white chick?

We get a fair amount of footage of a karate demonstration (some of it legitimate as a demo, but obviously not real - so to advertise it as part of a competition was stupid.) The full contact fight at the end was pretty cool, but that was it.

They should've just played the whole thing out as the MSG 1979 karate demonstration and championship fights. I think 1970's and early 1980's martial arts directors were the same as porn directors - too much plot getting in the way of the stuff people really want to see!

This project was overthought - but I'm guessing some studio exec gave someone an order to make a movie about the successor to Bruce Lee and gave him 48 hours to get it finished.

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The "Chinese samurai" footage was actually stolen from 'The Invincible Super Chan' so FOFTOD doesn't really deserve the credit for that. Anyway, it's still my opion that this was meant as a comedy.

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I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously (I really hope not anyway), but I don't believe it was meant to be a flat out comedy either. If it was, everyone involved was a genius - which I doubt. Plus I don't believe the actors were good enough actors to do that kind of comedy unless nobody told them!

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