- The Clones of Bruce Lee
Infobox_Film
name = Bruce Lee's Clone
director =Joseph Kong
producer =Dick Randall Chang Tsung Lung
starring =Bruce Le
Dragon Lee Bruce Lai Bruce Thai Bolo Yeung John BennBruce Liang
distributor = "Newport Releasing " (United States ), "Ambassador Film Distributors " (Canada ).
released = 1977 (Hong Kong),
flagicon|USA 1980 (United States),
Flagicon|Canada 1981 (Canada)
language = Cantonese
imdb_id = 0075859The Clones of Bruce Lee is one of the most notorious clone films in the world. It gathers together several of the Lee clones who sprang up after
Bruce Lee 's death (includingBruce Le andDragon Lee ), and ties it all together with an insane plot. It has been called "The Mount Rushmore ofBruceploitation films".ynopsis
After
Bruce Lee arrives DOA at the hospital, Collin of the Special Bureau of Investigations uses technology to create three clones of Lee, played byBruce Le ,Dragon Lee , andBruce Thai . They are trained in martial arts byBolo Yeung .One of the clones starts work as a movie star for a corrupt producer who plans to have him die on camera. Meanwhile, the other clones go to Thailand, where they meet up with
Bruce Lai (not a clone). While there, they happen upon a beach that is loaded with completely naked lovelies for no particular reason.The Professor who perfected the cloning technology goes off the rails and programs the clones to destroy each other. Although they fight, the Professor pays heavily for his betrayal.
Reaction
On the website [http://www.kungfucinema.com/ Kung Fu Cinema] , Mark Pollard sums up much of the appeal of the film, writing:
" "Clones of Bruce Lee" is the "
Plan 9 from Outer Space " of Hong Kong cinema. It's the very definition of bad filmmaking and sleazy exploitation. Expect to witness mad scientists bent on world domination, death rays, bronzemen, and naked women frolicking on the beach. Despite some decent kung fu action, particularly with Bolo, it's so bad you'll laugh or turn it off." [http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/clonesofbrucelee.htm]A review on the website [http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/index.html/ The Bad Movie Report] finds it less enjoyable:
"Although the Lee-alikes are in superb shape, and certainly know their Lee chops, there is a deadening sameness about the fight scenes that eventually robs the movie of all joy; this flick is, after all, 95% fight scenes. I've always preferred the swordplay-oriented kung fu movies- the more weapons, and the more bizarre, the better. Let's face it, the numerous styles notwithstanding (and there are several on display), there are only so many ways to aim a blow at your opponent and only so many ways to block that blow. Without a good fight coordinator, like Lee himself, Jimmy Wang Yu, Samo Hung or a host of others, after forty-five minutes of the same fight over and over, each subsequent fight becomes the kinetic equivalent of white noise: your mind more or less goes on vacation." [http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/C/clones_brucelee.html]
Trivia
* Contains the only fight scene between
Bruce Le andDragon Lee .* John Benn, who plays "Colin", recently appeared as an American businessman in
Jet Li 's film " Fearless".* Another Bruce Lee imitator, Bruce Liang, appears in the film, but oddly enough does not play a clone.
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