5 comments about Bruce Li - The Invincible.

1. Another grand $1 digiview movie, thank you China. This Time Bruce Li, not to be confused with Bruce Lee, or Bruce Lea, but maybe Bruce Le hunts down a renegade Shaolin monk terrorizing a Malaysian town. There is fast fighting, bad dubbing, and splattering gorilla brains. Overall, a good time is had by all.



2. Bruce Lee was known all over the world as a B movie star. THis kung fu movie isn't as difficult to watch as some of his other stuff like Enter the Dragon. The low rating I got it for cheap, it was an old 1987 issue of the VHS and the English voice overs were poorly matched- deliberately to get the viewer to develop a sense of humor. This is not very good kung fu from Bruce Lee, his best is in Enter the Dragon and Fists of Fury. I like Bruce Lee though as a B movie icon.



3. Ho Chung Tao (aka Bruce Li) Delivers fast and extreme martial arts fight sequences in this movie. The director should not have included the "Gorilla" fight scene because it is too far fetched. However, Ho Chung Tao is without a doubt amazing with flying kicks and several grabbling holds that he learned from his teacher.
   
   I would also recommend buying "Iron Dragon Strikes Back" starring Bruce Li-
   I give Ho Chung Tao combined with the fight choreogaphy (minus the Gorillas) a five star rating.
   Note: This movie would have only received 1 star had without Bruce Li-



4. I purchased this DVD over at Walmart, probably mistake number one, but it was just a buck. They had a picture on the cover of Bruce Lee, but the film itself stars Bruce Li (who is NOT the same person). To use Bruce Lee's image to market this film is unethical at best.
   
   Other than the gorilla fighting scene mentioned by other reviewers and a rather disturbing almost rape scene, the movie itself wasn't so horrible. But I watched it all the way to the end thinking maybe Bruce Lee has some bit extra part. But alas, no.
   
   At least the original Little Shop of Horrors marketed with Jack Nicholson on the cover has Jack cast in a bit part (that of the dentist).



5. I bought this for a good friend of mine who is not computer savvy at all. He was telling me about this Bruce Lee movie that he really like but couldn't find it anywhere. He was really surprised that I was able to find it so easily. Then he was shocked when I told him the price. So it's been a great addition to his collection.

No comments about Dragon: Bruce Lee Story (Ws Coll).

2 comments about WING CHUN KUNG FU 7 - Wooden Dummy Volume 1 - Sections One thru Five.

1. I just received this DVD the other day and watched the entire thing. Good picture quality, good angles on the wooden dummy, and good application explanation. The one minor thing the DVD has that makes a huge difference when learning from a DVD is chapters (minus any thumbnail pics of the chapters). I have other wing chun DVDs that don't have chapters and believe me when you try and continue on the DVD where you left off without chapters you have to manually fast forward. For example the Wing Chun series released by William Cheung (which I also own, recommend, and has good information just no chapters). I intend to purchase the rest of this series if that says anything.



2. I found that this was a good example of Wing Chun techniques demonstrated on the wooden dummy. The form is demonstrated well and it is broken down into small enough chunks that it can be absorbed. Anyone who studies Wing Chun, as well as those outside the family, would find this to be a valuable resource in furthering their understanding of the art. I would recommend this DVD to anyone who studies our style or to those who simply want to know what it is that we do. I've studied the art for 28 years and I got something out of it.

5 comments about Chinese Connection 16x9 Widescreen TV..

1. When I first bought the 2-sided dvd, I thought cool, I get two movies for a good price, but no. I would stay away from this and highly recommend buying the Box set or Bruce Lee collection, as it is a much better buy. This dvd is unrestored, has no option for subtitles, comes only in fullscreen, has no extra content that I think is worthwhile, and furthermore, both movies were not uncut as in the box set, which I bought later on. So anyways, go for the Bruce Lee Collection instead.



2. The Product was just as I expected and recieved in a timely manner.
   thank you for servicing me!
   
   Oliver T



3. It has been well over a month since I ordered this CD, and here it is 31 July 2009 and I still have not received this order:-(



4. loved the movie although it was a little lighter than i remember meaning that you could see it lost some color/clarity as a copy of the original. Worth buying delivery was a little slow, and the packaging that it arrived in was just acceptible overall a good experience and i would order from them again...



5. Arrived early and brand new just like describe! Very pleased, am building collection as gift for friend who's a big Bruce Lee fan. Amazon is making it easy and affordable!

2 comments about The Kung Fu Connection 4 Movie Pack.

1. I picked up this 2 DVD set ... The films, while not well known to me, made fine additions to my budding kung fu DVD collection.

   The picture quality of the transfers is actually pretty good, appearing to have come right off the film reel, although you run into some scratchy segments, especially in Kung Fu, the Invisible Fist. My chief gripe is that the picture frames, originally in widescreen, were merely cropped, not re-formatted. So you have some of the action and/or actors disconnected from the soundtrack. During the essential action, though, this is rarely--if ever--a problem. By the way, the snap case cover pictures relate to nothing on the DVDs themselves inside the case.

   I won't go into a film-by-film review at this time (I haven't watched all four movies all the way through yet), but suffice to say that the films in the collection don't lack for sufficient action. Enough action to keep you watching through each film in a single sitting. All-in-all, "old style" kung fu cinema at its best.

   For the price (you can get the collection at ..and overall content and quality of the films, I give a 5-star rating, but deduct one star for the mindless cropping of the frames.

   ***Update***
   (1)Kung Fu, The Invisible Fist
   Good Chinese (kung fu) versus Japanese (karate) action with lots of fights. Classic scene: before the final showdown: "They call me the Hungry Tiger." "They call me the Crazy Dragon." The last fight scene is admittedly a little long and drawn out, with fighters still standing after absorbing multiple death-dealing blows, but who cares as long as the fists and feet keep flying (and the Chinese guy wins)!

   (2)Militant Eagle
   Story set in old China. A classic tale of loyalty, intrigue and betrayal.

   (3)Blind Fists of Bruce
   Great action and storyline all the way through. Bruce Li acts winsomely and fights convincingly in this story of a local banker who learns kung fu and takes back his lost fortune and reputation from the town thugs. This will be one of my favorite KF flicks of all time! The final fight scene is a classic.

   (4)Dragon Lee vs. the Five Brothers
   O.K., aside from the flagrant Bruce Lee-aping quips. The film still manages to offer lots of good action and a decent story.




2. Extras on THE KUNG FU CONNECTION 4 Movie Pack include a DVD dictionary, trivia game, cartoon and "About Kung Fu."
   
   CONTENTS:
   
   BLIND FIST OF BRUCE-- Bank manager is robbed of all he has by a martial arts gang, so he turns to a blind Kung Fu master (Bruce Li) for help. Ironically, the gang leader is the man responsible for the old teacher's blinding after his banishment from the elder's school.
   
   DRAGON LEE VS. FIVE BROTHERS-- "The New Bruce Lee" attempts to overthrow Emperor Ching.
   
   KUNG FU, THE INVINCIBLE FIST-- Another Chinese vs. Japanese fight film. This one stars Chen Sing in one of his few "hero" roles, as an officer sent to China to infiltrate a slave trading operation.
   
   MILITANT EAGLE-- Ancient warlord illegally taxes the people and uses violent enforcers on those who refuse to pay. Four of his victims join forces to battle their corrupt oppressor.
   
   
   MASTERS OF MARTIAL ARTS 4 Movie Pack (also from BCI / Eclipse) is a similarly themed collection.
   
   
   BRENTWOOD's 4-fers are nicely priced movie bundles. Video and sound quality of these digitally unrestored public domain films is generally fine. Discs are dual-side recorded.
   
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   Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
   
   (5.0) Blind Fist Of Bruce (Hong Kong/USA-1979) - Bruce Li/Siu Tien Yuen/Tiger Yueng/Yuen Shui Tu
   
   (4.7) Dragon Lee vs. Five Brothers (Hong Kong-1978) - Dragon Lee/Chui Man Fooi/Qiu Yuen
   
   (6.9) Kung Fu, The Invincible Fist (Hong Kong-1972) - Sing Chen/Yasuaki Kurata/Irene Ryder
   
   (6.7) Militant Eagle (Hong Kong/Taiwan-1978) - Ying Bai/Fei Meng/Nancy Yen/Ping Lu

5 comments about Story of the Dragon.

1. Thís DVD is just for the Bruce Lee fans. If you like him you should see this film. As a documentary it is cool. But you may not enjoy the picture quality. But for a Bruce Lee fan there is no problem.



2. well, i first ordered this dvd under the impression that it was a documentary of bruce lee's life. not so,this is an old bruce lei movie. the cover is bruce lee, the name of the movie is bruce lee, but no bruce lee. the dvd truly sucks, because there is no menu for it, so in essence it works absolutely no differently than a vhs tape would. no skipping to scenes or anything extra at all. i did enjoy the movie though, it might have been because i remember watching it on kung fu theater on tv when i was younger. i would recommend getting it used if you truly want to watch it. the 3 stars are for just enjoyment of the movie, but i would rather have had the documentary any day.



3. Classic kung fu movie! Bruce Lee stars in this action-packed cheesy 1970's kung fu movie featuring hilarious dubbing and exciting kung fu. Based on a true story, Bruce comes to San Francisco and and starts a kung fu school. He quickly makes enemies from other schools and after escaping death, Bruce realises that his traditional kung fu moves are not that effective against American street fighting so he creates his own style, Jee Kune Do and combats his enemies in spectacular battles. Bruce plays Bob. Or at least I think it's Bob. He is refered to as Bruce once. I reccomend Story of the Dragon if you like great action movies.



4. I love this movie, but my praise will have to wait until I make sure a few important facts are established for those out there unfamiliar with Bruceploitation films. First and foremost, Bruce Lee does not appear in this picture, nor does it have the first thing to do with the real Bruce Lee; the star of the film is Ho Chung Tao (aka Li Shao Lung), better known as Bruce Li. I wasn't that impressed with Li in the first couple of films I saw, but I have now come to understand why he is regarded by and large as the best of the Bruce Lee clones (and I might point out he never really embraced the concept of being renamed after his idol). It is unfair to even compare him to Bruce Lee because Li is a pretty darn good martial arts star in his own right. With this movie, he has won me over completely. Another important fact about this film concerns the title: these Bruceploitation films of the mid- to late-70s are notorious for having different titles. This 1976 film is probably best known as Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu, although you may very well see it called Bruce Lee's Secret or Story of the Dragon; additional but less common titles include Bruce Li's Jeet Kune Do, A Dragon Story, and He's a Legend, He's a Hero. You really have to be careful when buying Bruceploitation films such as this because each movie bears multiple titles.

   As for the movie itself, the plot is a very familiar one. Li plays "Bob" Lee, a young Chinese man working in San Francisco; he and his friend are bullied by a trio of thugs, and Bob's decision to teach the guys a little respect for the Chinese lands him and his buddy out of work. For some reason, the scraggly American guys Bob put a licking on exercise some control over Chinatown, making it very difficult for our hero to find a new job. When he does get a job working on the docks, the roughnecks show up along with some of their friends to beat everybody there up. Bob finally has to do his thing again, after which his coworkers convince him to open his own school and teach them kung fu. If you've seen The Chinese Connection (or just about any other martial arts film), you know this means trouble with the schools already in existence (all of which are, of course, rife with bad guys). Well, as you can well imagine, the conflict escalates. Two things make this particular film a little different, though. For one, Bob is defeated at one point by what I assume was supposed to be some type of Japanese karate expert, forcing him to rethink his strategy and thereby come up with his own personalized form of kung fu. This provides a window in which a tiny bit of the essence of kung fu is explained to the audience. Second, in the final conflict, Bob has to deal with an unusual weapon, which makes the predictable climax a little more interesting.

   A good many Bruceploitation fans don't seem to care for Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu, but I loved it. As I said, the plot is pretty similar to that of many a martial arts film, but this story works for me, particularly with the emphasis Bob places on disproving the idea that the Chinese are cowards; everyone who gets in his way is made to respect the Chinese. Some who know more about kung fu than I do (and I basically know nothing about it) aren't that impressed with the fight scenes featured in the movie, but I thought they were outstanding. Bruce Li impressed me more here than in any other of his movies I have seen so far. The action is fast and furious, particularly the one fight between Bob and the Japanese assassin sent to kill him. The final battle scenes were especially good, as Bob had to single-handedly go through several heavy layers of bad guys in order to reach the man he was really after.

   Formulaic it may be, but Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu is one of my favorite Bruceploitation films, and Bruce Li impressed the heck out of me with his fighting skills in this one. It can be hard for a fan of the real Bruce Lee to embrace the string of Bruceploitation films that were churned out in the years after his death, and many a Lee fan will not watch any of them. As long as they do nothing to tarnish the image of Lee, however, I can't get enough of them, and Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu is one of the best ones out there.




5. I agree 100 percent with DARKGENIUS!
   I think people are too hard on Bruce Li and his movies.
   I've been collecting Kung Fu movies since the 80's.
   (I even paid $80 several years ago for an Encylopedia of Kung Fu movies. Yes, encyclopedia's for this genre do exist!!)
   "Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu" is one of my all-time top
   ten favorites!
   One of the main reasons I love this film so much is that
   the dialouge is so bad, IT'S GOOD! It's classic 70's!
   One example, is when the "San Francisco Kid"(white guy)first comes in with the chinese guy(who always played a "traitor" in several Bruce Lee films), says, "Ha, ha, ha! Don't worry. Ha, ha. I'll make them sorry they stared this! Ha, ha, ha."
   They made him sound like "Butthead"(from Beavis & Butthead!)
   It's ...classic. There's nothing else like this genre!

   Lastly, I would also like to point out that the fight scenes
   are excellent(none of the ... wire-work that's rampant now-a-days)! And the story is not half bad either.

5 comments about Bruce Lee: True Story.

1. This is generally considered to be the best bio-pic made of Bruce Lee's life, even though it does leave some gaps in the story. Often billed as a documentary, it is in fact a movie based on the biography of the man, and it takes the high road by trying to present Bruce Lee as he really was. The film opens with the ambulance transporting Bruce to the hospital, followed by a respectful look at his gravesite, and only then do we go back in time to trace the extraordinary life of this martial arts legend. Bruce Li plays the part of the Dragon, and I was definitely most impressed by his performance. The first few Bruce Li films I watched, I couldn't understand why this man is generally considered to be the best of the Bruce Lee imitators. He impressed me in Chinese Connection 2, but Li is on top of his game in Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth; his resemblance in both look and form to Bruce Lee is much more polished here than in Li's other films.

   We follow Bruce Lee from Hong Kong to Seattle, Washington, where he teaches the martial arts to those wanting to learn, having by now gone a long way toward establishing his own special Jeet Kune Do style. From here it is on to San Francisco and then Los Angeles, by which time he has landed the role of Kato in The Green Hornet. Eventually, the reluctance of Hollywood to build a movie around a relatively unknown Asian fighter leads him to return to Hong Kong to make a name for himself there. This film features a very nice reproduction of one scene from Bruce's first big movie, The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury in the US). After a couple of Hong Kong successes, he makes his successful return to America to begin the film career he had dreamed about. He found early work behind the scenes of several movies, including one filmed in Rome which is reproduced faithfully on location in this bio-pic. The rest of his movie career is zipped through rather quickly, setting the stage for the inevitable and tragic death of this man whose legend will never fade away. The one major issue I have with the film concerns Bruce's wife and children. There are no references to his getting married or becoming a father; the wife and kids just turn up out of the blue one night to tell him goodnight.

   There are a number of good fight scenes in this film, largely due to the fact that Bruce Lee was constantly accosted and challenged by tough guys, martial arts "experts," and practitioners of any number of fighting disciplines wherever he went: on the street, at the airport, even on the sets of his movies. Bruce also had to endure a great deal of prejudice against his Chinese ethnicity. Heaven help anyone who put down kung fu, such as a fair number of karate experts and a number of proud Thai boxers. You would think only the most foolhardy of folks would dare challenge Lee to a fight, but there are a lot of really dumb men in the world who were taught a hard lesson by Bruce Lee.

   This film does a good job of showing just how hard Bruce Lee worked and trained, featuring shots of Bruce working with his own special proto-computer type training station and zapping himself with electricity in order to become ever stronger. Watching Bruce Li endure the pain of such unorthodox training leaves an indelible memory on the viewer's mind. The ending is quite interesting. We first see Bruce assaulted by a tremendous headache during one of his workouts (and he amazingly blocks out the pain and continues working), and in the end we see another headache hit while he is discussing his new movie with Betty Ting Pei at her apartment, after which he takes the medicine Betty gives him and lies down, never to awake. There are no innuendoes at all cast on this presentation of events. Then, almost after the fact, a narrator mentions the rumors and mystery of Bruce's death, and we are shown two scenarios popular at the time, especially in Hong Kong- in one, we see him beaten up by some well-armed thugs, and in the next we are presented with the idea that he, in order to avoid the death a wise man had predicted would strike at age 33 (actually, the movie gets Bruce's age at the time of his death wrong, saying he was 35), faked his death and would remain in isolation for ten years. I really had not heard this rumor before; at the time this film was made, though, apparently some people waited hopefully for Bruce to return in 1983.

   Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth really is the best of the Bruce Lee bio-pics available, despite the fact it was released back in 1976. Bruce Li gives the finest performance of his career, and the movie strikes a respectful tone that fittingly acknowledges both the mythic qualities of Bruce Lee as well as the human side of the man. Bruce Lee was, after all, just a man (albeit an extraordinary one), and it is important to remember and celebrate his life rather than get completely caught up in the mythology surrounding his achievements and mysterious death.




2. I am a true fan of Bruce Lee.

   Let me sum up why you shouldn NOT buy this DVD :

   - In the audio documentaries, at the very begining, the guy says : 'I think we all agree this is not a very good movie'
   Not only they all agree but I also agree.

   The audio documentaries are VERY poor quality, those are intervieze conducted over the phone, you can barely hear what they re saying, and in fact they can hardly hear what they re saying. One of them says : "are you guys still there"

   The movie is pure fiction! You expect a good bio but the only thing you are sure that really happened is the death of Lee in Betty Ting Pei s appartment. In the movie you can see Lee (not the real one) training with a strange machine (fiction), you can see him fight during the filming of big boss (fiction again)

   The audio commentaries, appart from being poor sound qualities, really show that the guys are bored to death when they speak, and one of them is actually explaining how Lee is not that great !! He is speaking to what I believe are the videos Lee made of him and Coburn in his backyard, according to this guy, the kicks are not that good...

   I am not going to waste more time about this DVD.

   If you want to waste money and if burning your notes or sending money to charity is not an option for you, then buy this DVD.

   Don t be fooled by the other comments, that s why I bought it and here is the result.




3. "Bruce Lee: True Story" (commonly known in the west as "Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth") was arguably the best and probably the most successful of the Bruce Lee exploitation films of the 70s. It's still pretty cheesy, though. Bruce Li stars as Lee in this heavily fictionalized biopic that covers his early days in Seattle, his big break in the film industry, the many people who supposedly challenged him to a fight, and his death (amusingly, several alternate deaths are provided at the end). Most of this is made up and the movie itself is kinda shameless, but it's more respectful than some of the other Bruce biopics and it was actually filmed all around the world (Hong Kong, Rome, USA).
   Being a VideAsia disc, the picture quality is horrible. The use of the title "Bruce Lee True Story" indicates that a subtitled Chinese print would be used, but it's merely a USA "The Man, The Myth" print seemingly mastered from a videotape (the dubbing does admittedly give the film a goofy charm). It's heavily faded with many scratchy sections. The image is pan and scan, heavily cropped from its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, making the already sub-par fight scenes worse.
   The area that this disc truly excells in is extras. First, their are two audio commentaries. The film focuses more on Bruce Lee (with Joe Lewis, Joe Hyams, Davis Miller and George Tan) and the second on the film (George Tan and Davis Miller, again). I only listened to a portion of the first commentary, which has poor sound quality and isn't very interesting. The second commentary (which can only be accessed using the DVD Audio button), which also hard to hear, is actually very good, and well worth a listen to.
   "The Bruce Lee Stories" includes clips from various Bruceploitation films with commentary to disect the various factual errors in them. Though short, it's very funny. Bruceploitation fans will also enjoy an interview with Bruce Li. While hardly touching on "Bruce Lee: True Story" and obviously filmed for something else, Li does talk about his career and other roles, which is interesting. Another interview, with director Ng See Yuen, doesn't mention "Bruce Lee: True Story" at all.
   For Bruce Lee fans, there are two documentaries about his martial arts by two of his students (one of them being Joe Lewis). Extras are rounded out by and American trailer, TV Spots, and a strange feature called "InstaAction" that jumps right to the action scenes, skipping all that pesky plot that keeps getting in the way during the movie.



4. Quote from george tan, the producer of Death by Misadventure, a documentary included in this 4 dvd set brought to us by the infamous video asia.
   
   So the movie is horrible but it was laying around in video asia's library of crappy kung fu movies, so they used it. One interesting note is how they talk about how this movie actually reached Enter the Dragon type of box office #'s worldwide. But I guaranteee you the movie is just godawful.
   
   There are 2 commentaries on this film and one is very important. The important one has the original writer of Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story- Rob Cohen's outrageously stupid and funny American Bruce Lee Bio movie. There is A LOT of important info discussed and this dvd is HIGHLY recommended by me for any bruce lee fan. Joe Lewis comes on and talks about how he met bruce and this commentary alone easily gets a 5/5.
   
   The second commentary discusses the movie, Bruce Lee the True Story.
   
   The extras are pretty good, though the ng see-tuen interview is way out of place. Still all the extras are pretty good.
   
   NOTE-the dvd set gets only a 3 becuase the audio on the important commentary is lousily done and you will need to turn your TV up pretty loud. The commentary that talks about the movie is a little better audio quality.



5. I feel that this movie is the greatest Bruce Lee biography movie. The lead actor "Bruce Li" (real name Ho Chung Tao, who was on stand by as Bruce Lee's understudy in his movies) has an uncanny resemblance to Bruce Lee and does a great job. Directed by legendary Hing Kong moviemaker Ng See Yuen (who launched the careers of Jackie Chan, Jean Claude Van Damme and Cynthia Rothrock, as well as directing the final film in the Bruce Lee catalogue Game Of Death 2, choreographed by the amazing Yuen Woo Ping), this movie does justice to Bruce Lee, and that makes me a very happy man. Long live Bruce Lee...

4 comments about Necropolis [VHS].

1. In 1686 New Amsterdam (New York City to you and me), an evil witch tries to off a recently married virgin. She is stopped in the nick of time by the local townsfolk, but swears revenge. Fast forward 300 years, and through the rest of this movie, and the witch is back, as are all the townsfolk who tried to stop her before. You see, apparently when you are reincarnated, you are reincarnated as a group.

   The newly reincarnated include an embarassing Italian detective, a cute spunky virgin reporter, and an African-American priest who also believes in the reincarnation theory. The witch now needs to finish killing the virgin so she can become immortal...I think, since she is already 300 years old. She calls up a few devilish minions and wreaks havoc on the stereotypical underbelly of the Big Apple, stealing ectoplasm from humans after she kills them so she can feed her zombie friends. A frenzied climax and a "surprise" ending round out a perfectly awful film.

   To begin with, the 1686 witch looks just like singer Bonnie Tyler. She does some kind of weird semi-topless dance during the ceremony that just confirms that the devil invented low impact aerobics. In 1986 New York, she must find the devil's ring so she can kill. The priest picked it up in a low grade satanic supply shop for no other reason than to move the plot forward. At one point in the film, and I am not making this up, the witch grows an additional four breasts so she can feed her zombie followers ectoplasm right from the source. I always preferred my ectoplasm with a light blue cheese dressing, but this was the '80's and I do not think zombies are very picky concerning their ectoplasm connection.

   The New Yawkers, trying to sound New Yawk, are all portrayed as pimps, hookers, and junkies. They use ethnic dialogue from the last Cleopatra Jones movie to sound even more authentic. The spunky virgin reporter is from Britain, and succumbs to the charms of the "yo, Eddie" detective. Watch for the coroner character, who is supposed to be very gay and very funny. He does not do either well.

   The action scenes are awful, the ending is protracted, and the acting is abysmal. The film gets really gory, but the fake breast appendage is hilarious.

   "Necropolis" is the city of the dead, and the film is completely devoid of ideas. I would take another exit and find a better town to frequent.

   This is rated (R) for physical violence, gun violence, gore, profanity, strong female nudity, brief male nudity, sexual references, and adult situations.




2. If you like sci-fi, and you like action you will like necropolis. Necropolis is hands down one of the best sci-fi thrillers ever to be put on the market. The plot twist, the incredible acting, and the amazing scenery is just mind boggling. Truly a underappreciated gem in the world of Sci-Fi



3. Personally I never saw this movie, and I do not intend to too, but the acting of Andrew Bausili probly was the only positive, considering he is an amazing actor I have witnessed this many times in English class where he is the teacher.Lots of Love, From a few students in Pd 9/10 English class



4. Necropolis (Bruce Hickey, 1987)
   
   Bruce Hickey's career in Hollywood as a writer/director lasted for all of one movie. Now that I have seen that movie, I'm pretty sure I understand why.
   
   Necropolis is the story of a 300-year-old witch (LeeAnne Baker, whose other credits are as obscure, and likely as awful, as this one) who is reincarnated as a punk rock/biker chick. She needs to sacrifice a virgin in order to regain her full powers, but she doesn't mind sacrificing a few non-virgins along the way in order to get the energy to feed the army of zombies she's growing beneath the streets of New York City. No one notices. (Oddly, this is the one detail in the entire plot for which I didn't need to suspend my disbelief.) There's a murder-mystery subplot that is, of course, tied back into the main plot, and a lame-brained romance between the cop investigating the case and the aforementioned virgin, but you can safely ignore it all. For that matter, you can ignore this entire movie, which has not a single redeeming quality to recommend it. The direction is shaky at best and nonexistent at worst, most of the acting makes more recent amateur productions (and I'm not talking about the really good ones, either) look like Oscar-winning fare, the cinematography is messy (and how hard is it to screw up a film that's basically perpetual night with lots of fog?), the sound mix seems to have been recorded through cotton batting... I could go on, but really, why waste any more words on this? Unless you have a serious penchant for awful eighties horror films, avoid this like the plague. I want my seventy-seven minutes back. (zero)

1 comments about I Spy - A Rockin' Bronco and Other Stories [VHS].

1. Not too bad. Doesn't hold much of our kids' interest though.

3 comments about The Fists of Bruce Lee.

1. A very blatant attempt to milk the Bruce Lee legend and cash-cow for all it was worth, and spawned a legion of lookalike wanna-be's with soundalike names, such as Bruce Li and Bruce Le, et al. As you might expect, the results are less than favorable, and although Bruce Li does have a little more than a passing physical resemblance to Lee, that's where the similarities end; Li's fight choreography is nowhere near Lee's; not even in the same ballpark. Oddly enough, there is even a blond Caucasian actor who takes a stab (literally) at trying to be Chuck Norris, but again, to no avail.

   The cinematography in this film is pathetic (much of the time, the actor's faces are halfway out of frame; it might have benefitted more from a widescreen presentation); and the dialogue is horrendously cheesy, with many of the typical "that's what you think" and "damn you, I'll kill you!" lines coming up often.

   Stick to the real McCoy; this is one time where imitation is not the most sincerest form of flattery.




2. This flick is one of the many Bruce Li's movies that were commercialy sold with the Bruce Lee name on it. He is the star and director in this movie. Even though he is not at the level of Bruce Lee, he is still is a very worthy martial arts fighter in his own right.

   Bruce Li stars as an undercover interpol agent posing as an electronics security systems expert, who is after a triad list of gang members possesed by a Mr. Lo, a known crime boss. Two gangs are also after the list. Mr. Lo has a pretty daughter, who developes a crush on Li. Another man, posing as a member of one of the gangs is actually another Interpol agent, unknown to Li. There are plenty of fights, including one at a carnival and another at a brick factory. At the climax, another martial artist (actor Lo Lieh, who plays a bit part in the beggining of the movie as a bodyguard for Mr. Lo) go against Li and the other Interpol agent. He has a dummy gloved hand attached with a chain, which he swings around! That's pretty hilarious! Anyway, the movie finishes when Li and the other agent fight the remaining leader of one of the gangs, and arrest him.

   This movie is quite old (around 1978, even though the DVD box claims it's from 1986). It has a lot of lints and scratches, which are common in low budget kung-fu movies of this era, and it has no relevant features. I would surely appreciated if Platinum Disc Corporation remastered their DVD catalog. But even as it is, the movie is still watchable.

   I definitly would not rate this movie as an all-time classic, but still this flick is good if you plan to stay home on a saturday evening. Recommended if you're a fan of Bruce Li's movies.




3. A COP [BRUCE LI] IS AFTER A LIST OF GANG MEMBERS, LITTLE KNOWING THAT 2 GANGS ARE ALSO AFTER THE LIST. HAS A FEW GOOD FIGHT SCENES, BUT THE STORY'S EXTREMELY INCOHERENT AND THE FILM MIGHT AS WELL BE PLOTLESS. FILMMAKERS OF MARTIAL ARTS FILMS MUST'VE BEEN REALLY DESPERATE FOR MONEY, JUDGING FROM ALL THE 1970S AND EARLY-1980S MARTIAL ARTS FILMS I'VE SEEN THAT HAD BRUCE LEE'S NAME IN ITS TITLE. BRUCE LI IS IN GOOD FORM, BUT LET'S FACE IT, HE'S NOT BRUCE LEE AND HE NEVER WILL BE. IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A GOOD MARTIAL ARTS FILM, LOOK ELSEWHERE.