Tuesday, May 31, 2022

'Young Bruce Lee and the Last Fist of Fury' (1977) - Shi-Hyeon Kim / Jim Markovic.

The Real Bruce Lee? Mmm, well, not quite, unless you are a vastly forgiving sort, or chronically myopic! In vino veritas, this is in actuality the three, 'not-quite' Bruce Lee's!: Bruce Li, Dragon Lee and some scratchily spliced-in archival footage of the immortal one! Admittedly, the more ardent aficionados of 'Enter the Dragon' may care to look elsewhere for their authentic Bruce kicks; but, should anyone share my lurid yen for crass, cash-in Brucesploitation, they will most certainly dig on the kinetic high-kicking lunacy of 'The Real Bruce Lee'. A delirious squall of gloriously old school Kung Fu is generously unleashed, with nary a shred of cogent plot to impede all the relentlessly ridiculous, strangely edifying chop-socking action! Personally, I can't get enough of this much-maligned martial arts micro-genre, and spurious titles aside, the dynamic duo of Dragon Lee & Bruce Li were ALWAYS eminently watchable pugilists, and their bravura performances in this hysterically 'Ham Fisted Fury' are certainly not without merit to avid Kung Fu freaks. 'Young Bruce Lee and the Last Fist of Fury' remains some epic kung Foolishness, dude!

 





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