Some of the FAKE BRUCE movies are classier than this.

Not saying this isn't a FAKE BRUCE LEE movie, because it is, but this movie just stinks to high heaven. It makes a movie like the 1978 Game Of Death look great in comparision. In fact, Sammo Houng and other Hong Kong directors sometimes was able to create a good story. It might be a bad movie, but it was a good bad movie with great acting and fight scenes. This Fist of Fear, Touch of Death movie is just plain stupid.

I mean some two-bit actor and fighters take part in this movie as themselves, playing themselves in the role of this tournment that will crown Bruce Lee's successor. I had to actually stop the damn DVD at times, walk around for an hour, before I could finish watching it.

Actor Adolph Ceaser plays a play-by-play announcer for this pseudo-documentry. There is a pseudo-storyline about a 'friend' of Bruce's that showed him a move called 'the touch of death' and that Bruce was murdered by it. Of course, this storyplot never really goes anywhere, except for 'clips' of Bruce showing the agent the moves. When I say 'clips,' I mean Bruce's head from one of his Tv-shows from the 1970's, with dubbed lines, and then a shot of the agent looking in awe like he saw Bruce do a summersault or something.

We get unfunny comedy bits and fight scenes from some of the 'workers' of the torunment. Bill Louie plays Kato and fights purse snatchers; and a former football player fights would be rapists. Also we get the 'real story' of Bruce Lee's life. Did you know that Bruce Lee's great-grandfather was a Samarari Warrior? Did you know they actually overdubbed a movie with a young Bruce Lee, and stole footage from a hokey samauri movie to show the tale of Bruce's 'grandfather.'

If Bruce could have seen this movie, he'd gone "Chinese Connection/Fist of Fury" on it! Once this crap ends, we get clips of Bruce's first movie in 1965. Bruce didn't do any movies until 1970/71; but here 'Bruce' is played by another hokey movie with an old rice-picker jumping off a castle screaming like Lee overdubbed.

Then we finally get the 'kickboxing fights' and I again pause, walk around, and finally its over. Even Robert Clouse's Game of Death is watchable compared to this dog.

Word of warning: Have lots of friends and beer if you ever choose to watch this. I don't drink . . . and I wouldn't punish other friends of mine without spirts around.