SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Leofwine_draca This is a film with one of those great exploitation titles that promises so much more than it eventually delivers. At first glance I was expecting to see some extreme kung-fu horror flick with a mad sorcerer reviving Bruce Lee from his death and turning him into an unstoppable zombie killer, with only a young novice martial artist to stop him. Sadly this was not to be. Aside from the cheesy opening shot, in which a guy pretending to be Bruce Lee jumps straight out of a grave and a drawing of such a scene follows on quickly, we're in the middle of a run-of-the-mill fight flick that has nothing to do with Bruce Lee at all. In fact, he's not even mentioned!The film instead concerns a young Bruce Lee lookalike named Bruce Lea (see where the confusion can arise?). It turns out that an old buddy of Lea's has died, so he goes to investigate and find the killers responsible. It turns out to be, apparently, the Village People! Yep, a Japanese man, a black man, a cowboy and a white man were last seen with the deceased and soon Lea finds himself battling the criminal gang in a succession of largely unimpressive fights. Things are tied up with a very unsurprising twist ending, a touch of tragedy and lots of very bad dubbing and worse acting. Lots of running time is taken up with scenes of human bonding which occur between Lea and would-be girlfriend Deborah Chaplin and the will-they-or-won't-they relationship which develops between them.Interspersed with the light plot are some fairly average scenes of kung fu which are nothing to get excited about. They are okay, but Lea is no Bruce Lee or even Bruce Li. In fact, Bruce Lea is a better actor than he is a fighter, which is unusual considering the proliferation of good fighters/poor actors that fill our screens year after year! Chaplin is also not bad in a developed part, although the bad guys are little more than clichés waiting to be cut down by our hero.The film is quite slow and uninteresting, let down by poor production values and a somewhat gloomy atmosphere. The photography is always dark and the editing looks like child's work, with silly slow-motion inserts for no reason (the moves aren't even that impressive to begin with). For some reason, some prints of the film claim that Umberto Lenzi is the director, but I believe this to be a simple case of mistaken identity; also, why on earth would Lenzi leave his beloved cop films in Italy to go globetrotting for a low budget kung fu trash oddity? A guy named Doo-Yong Lee appears to be the real culprit.

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.

MartinHafer The film begins with a very, very fake tombstone with Bruce Lee's name on it. Then the title appears. Other than these two things, there is NOTHING about Bruce Lee about the film despite the title of the American release being BRUCE LEE FIGHTS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE! In the 70s, lots of crappy film makers tried adding Lee's name to lousy films he had nothing to do with in an effort to sucker people into seeing them. Part of the problem is that Lee died at the height of his fame and only made a few films--people were eager for more. Considering that I have seen all of Lee's films, I knew right away this was the intention of the film, but decided to watch it anyways on a lark.The film stars a guy who isn't all that good at martial arts (Jun Chong), though because this is a rip-off film, they rechristen him 'Bruce K. L. Lea'! When you see his acting and especially is fighting, you know right away that this is no Bruce Lee--just some third-rate wannabe.So apart from poor martial arts, it there anything to recommend this film? Well, no....absolutely nothing. There are many dumb scenes--including a cremation that takes only 3 seconds (they must have used a microwave) AND immediately after the bones came out of the oven, they were cold to the touch! There was also a stupid (and pointless) scene involving a cab driver who got beaten up by Lea. Minutes later, he had crappy bandages all over his face--like in some bad cartoon! Some of the rottenness might be the fault of the company producing the horrendous English language dubbing (usually a very bad sign when a martial arts film isn't subtitled). The voices were all wrong, though it was enjoyable to hear Black American men with Asian accents! The soundtrack was also just god-awful--with it being often too loud and of dubious quality. However, I did get a chuckle at the stupidity of the music dubber who used the marine song "The Halls of Montezuma" for a Christmas parade! Seeing Santa on his sled as this song played was simply beyond words!! Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention that the print was very, very, very grainy.So in the end, this is a tremendously dull and badly made film--even if you DON'T consider the dubbing. Only watch this film if you want a laugh. It's just very sad that such a horrible product has cynically had Bruce Lee's name affixed to 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.