The Game of Death II

Starring:Bruce Lee, Tai Chung Kim, Jang Lee Hwang, Roy Horan, Casanova Wong, Roy Chiao, Hoi San Lee, Shun-Yee Yuen, Miranda Austin, Biao Yuen
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, See-Yuen Ng, Corey Yuen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection (The Big Boss / Fist of Fury / Way of the Dragon / Game of Death / Game of Death II)

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Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection (The Big Boss / Fist of Fury / Way of the Dragon / Game of Death / Game of Death II)
Starring: Bruce Lee
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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Enter the Dragon
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Biography - Bruce Lee: The Immortal Dragon (A&E DVD Archives)
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey

ASIN: B000A9QK9Q
Release Date: 2005-10-18

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Contains: *Widescreen Feature: The Big Boss *Widescreen Feature: Fist of Fury *Widescreen Feature: Way of the Dragon *Widescreen Feature: Game of Death *Widescreen Feature: Game of Death II

Customer Reviews:

Good Enough.......2007-04-03

This set is good enough. I mean, how can an old production be made to today's standards without altering the original content. Come on. This and Enter the Dragon is all I need to start with for my collection. Bruce is a legend, and to have a set like this is good enough in my opinion.

Good collection, but average........2007-03-27

Right off the bat, this collection loses a star for it's inclusion of Game of Death and Game of Death II. Both are insulting to the Bruce Lee legacy. While Game of Death II is just a REALLY BAD movie, the first Game of Death would have actually been a decent film had they not tried to capitalize on Bruce Lee. Instead, we see a bunch of cheap Bruce Lee acting imitations and some bad special effects. It's just insulting.

The other three movies, worthy of being part of this collection are: The Big Boss (AKA Fists of Fury), Fist of Fury (AKA Chinese Connection), and The Way of the Dragon (AKA Return of the Dragon). I've never seen them done so well. I've seen previous DVDs of the first two movies, but these remasters look marvelous. Most of it is clean. Up close, you might be able to see some small pixelization artifacts though. It seems like they took a high resolution image from the original tapes and then squeezed the picture down to standard definition. Looking a few feet away though, you may not notice the artifacts; and the improvement in picture quality is worth it.

The sound quality is also decent. I'm not a big sound buff, but the sound sounds alright to me. Ah, but wait. The Chinese soundtracks sound good, but the English ones are a different story. Another star was lost here because the English soundtracks on all but the Game of Death movies are junk. The voices are low and the sound effects sound super low quality and way over done. It's not even worth watching the movie in English. Therefore I suggest that to get the most out of this collection, watch it with Audio Track 3: Chinese. This is the original recording in Cantonese. Then select English Subtitles. While this is a bit of a pain, it's better than watching the movie with the English audio.

This is the first time I've seen The Way of the Dragon. I must say I was disappointed. I can see that Bruce tried to get his instructional points in and his humor. But the story seemed second rate and the fight scenes needed more work. Most of them had no punch to them; they looked fake. Although, an OK movie, this is his worst. The other two and the Warner Bros. release, Enter the Dragon, are the best, especially the latter.

What a ripoff.......2007-03-03

I do not know who wrote these reviews but after viewing this collection I was compelled to write this review. I am a fan of Bruce lee and his movies and to have someone come out with this low quality imitation of remastered videos is a disgrace to his legacy. The sounds were almost comical. The real insult is to put special features on each video and to see that there are none. I clicked on the special features on every video and there were no specials. I wish I could not give it one star but I have to in order to write this. Be very careful if you get this collection and know you get what you pay for.

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The best Collection of Bruce Lee.......2007-02-15

I have truly enjoyed the copy of this collection.

I don't buy imports - this is the next best thing!.......2007-01-03

What can I say. I bought imports before and got burnt.

Suffice it to say, this is possibly the next best thing to own. Here, you get to actually watch the movies in the original languages, with the exception of Game of Death and Game of Death II, but they were always done in English and is not a big loss.

Having the original Chinese language is great on many fronts. First off, the dubbing that was done before in English was horrendous as it always has been. Plus, some things are changed from the story line when they translate it as they try to match the lip movements to the English words.

Also, because of the translation, this sometimes causes other scenes to be thrown out. Case in point is in Way of the Dragon/Return of the Dragon. When Bruce's character is standing outside the restaurant with his stomach growling, a man comes out and tells him to go on inside. In the American version, we see Bruce go in and then come out again, apparently after having eaten. Well, an entire scene was missed in where he goes into the restaurant to order food and can't speak a word of English, but that's what the waitress speaks in and what the menu is in. The entire exchange is hilarious. It also drives home the point that Bruce's character is out of place in Rome which makes more sense with many of the scenes in the movie which seemed strange when spoken in the English language.

Now, it would have been nice to have more "extras" other than the filler stuff they have here, which is basically slide shows, trailers and interviews with people. I understand the import versions have much more, but for me, this coupled with the 2-disc Enter the Dragon DVD makes my Bruce Lee collection complete.

With the Ultimate Collection, you get a new 5.1 English soundtrack but at times, it sounds funny during the fight scenes. Specifically, it sounds like the fight is taking place in a tunnel with the reverberation turned on a little too much I guess. It can be kind of distracting and disorienting with the way it sounds, but it's not a total loss. Still, the Chinese soundtrack is better. Different music and it just flows better.

The Chinese soundtracks are fine and make the movies much more enjoyable for me because you get to hear the true emotions of the actors. Some have complained about the subtitles being within the movie rather than in the black bars below. This is because these movies are in anamorphic wide screen, so on a HDTV, you'd have no black bars. To me, it's not that bad. That's how it would have been in the theaters to begin with anyways.

The picture for each of the movies are great, with the exception of Way of the Dragon. Early on, parts of it are fuzzy and out of focus. Now, this could be due to the camera shot itself because it's not the entire shot that's out of focus, but it's not enough to be completely horrible or unwatchable. But, after you get past that point in Way of the Dragon, the picture is great just like in all the other movies.

The only unwatchable things are the Game of Death (minus the final fights with the REAL Bruce of course) and Game of Death II and we all know why that is. If you really want to see how the Game of Death fights were, get the 2-disc Enter the Dragon DVD which contains at least 30 minutes of the fights in the order they would have happened, including his side kicks that were supposed to come along with him but were left out of the GOD movie for obvious reasons. It's a very interesting introspective on what Bruce was trying to envision with Game of Death and it's a shame it was never completed the way he wanted it. Plus, all the interviews up to that point are great, with Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul Jabar and so many other former students and martial artists that knew and worked with Bruce Lee.

To me, this set is worth 4 stars. It could have gotten 5 stars with some extra content and the strange 5.1 sounds hurt that as well, but overall, this is worth having. Couple this with the 2-disc DVD of Enter the Dragon and it's completely worth 5 stars.

There is no better bargain in the states than this.

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4 Stars for the Movie 1 for the DVD Version
Heroic
Addictive movie
Love the movie but dissappointed with presentation
Too bad its the american version

The Blood of Heroes
Starring: Rutger Hauer , Delroy Lindo , Anna Katarina , Vincent D'Onofrio , and Gandhi MacIntyre
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Customer Reviews:

4 Stars for the Movie 1 for the DVD Version.......2007-02-19

This is one of those little pictures you never expected to like, and yet 17 years after first seeing it, it is still a favorite of mine. A low budget affair, it really gets a lot for it's money. The story is fairly simple, a team of juggers go from town to town playing other teams to then possibly challenge one of the great league teams that play in one of the nine cities that remain in this post apocolyptic world. The game is straight forward. You must get your runner with a dog skull through the enemy lines to place it on a stake. It is very brutal however, with lots of action and blood. The stories two main characters are a disgraced former league player who leads his team to challenge again. Also, the girl runner or quick who wants more from her life that her squalid village can offer. This is a great underdog movie, and you will find yourself caught up in the action. The problem with the movie however is the dvd. It is presented only in full screen. It shows only one version of the movie. There is a slightly longer cut with a differant ending out there. Also the picture quality is very muddy. In the daylight scenes it will get by, but when they go underground, it is very hard to see anything. This is one film that needs a special edition. Sadly, though it is a cult classic, I don't know if it gets enough buys to warrant the studio to take the time and money to clean the print, and add some decent extras.

Heroic.......2006-12-22

I have watched this movie so many times I can not count. The movie starts with a young boy yelling "the juggers are comming" and very quickly you are introduced to a game that is brutal, harsh yet the players are respectful to each other in a way that you would not see today in football, soccer or basketball. Rutger Hauer and joan chen are the primary stars.(I wonder if this was her first movie). All of the actors play their role well.

It would have been nice if there was an explaination of what happend to the world to drive major cities underground and left the rest of the world to barely surive.

When I went to buy the movie, I was lucky to get a copy of the VHS version, it is much better than the DVD version. If you liked Rollerball, the originial, you will certainly like this movie. I would suggest that to enjoy this move to the fullest, that you suspend your questions about how the world ended up here and how in the fracking way the game began.

There is one scene where a women touches the blood on Vincent D'Orio which symbolizes the name of the movie. The players of this game have the aura of heroes which is how the population views them. Enjoy!!!

Addictive movie.......2006-06-29

This is my favorite Rutger Hauer movie; ok maybe excepting Blade Runner. Low budget and low tech didn't hurt the story telling. It's violent but for the most part for a reason; not just to show blood. The movie is just plain fun to watch.

Love the movie but dissappointed with presentation.......2006-03-22

This is one of my favorite movies. Not sure why. Honestly.

First off this movie is essentially a sports movie wrapped into a post-apocalyptic setting.

This movie is full of character actors we all know as well. Rutger is his usual awesome self in this well written, well acted, low-budged faire. The script and pacing is tight and the final playing of "The Game" plays better than many other sport movies.

Now for my main complaint. This movie is in 4:3! No widescreen presentation? This movie has played on Bravo plenty of times in Widescreen. It had a theatrical release this was no direct to video movie.

On the off-chance this movie is ever remastered and released in its original aspect ratio I will be the first to buy it!

Too bad its the american version.......2006-03-15

I was very disappointed to find out that this was the American version, it lacks 10 minutes of footage, and has sort of a happy ending for Sallow.
Apart from that this is still a very solid post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.

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Beware of the Killer Peacocks!
the first one stank,why did we need a second one
ric meyers said it best, "if you see that seasonal film logo, you know it's gonna be good.
Good Choreography, Bad Movie
Can't agree with other reviews

The Game of Death II
Starring: Bruce Lee , Tai Chung Kim , Jang Lee Hwang , Roy Horan , and Casanova Wong
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo , See-Yuen Ng , and Corey Yuen
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Release Date: 2004-05-25

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Beware of the Killer Peacocks!.......2007-06-13

Game of Death II (aka Tower of Death) is a dichotomy of a film. It is a Bruceploitation film (though it is one of the better ones) and it is an exiting revenge flick. Raymond Chow had apparently not made enough money off of the insipid Game of Death and was slowly leaking "newly found" footage of Bruce so it was bound that he would create another film with spliced in footage, redubbed dialog and, of course, Bruce's namesake. A lot of people were using Lee's name to promote their own productions, but Golden Harvest (who Bruce worked for; though technically this was a Seasonal production) was the worst of these offenders.

The first act of the movie is the least interesting and worst part of the film. Bruce Lee stars (posthumously edited in) as Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) who visits his friend Chin Ku (Hwang Jang Lee) who is currently beating up an under-classed challenger. After an reestablishment of friendship between the two (never a good sign in a Kung Fu film), he visits an abbot (Roy Chiao revisiting his role from Enter the Dragon so they can reuse and redub footage) to discuss about his contumacious brother Bobby Lo (Tong Lung who also starred in Game of Death).

Of course, the scenes that compromise the first act are not only exploitative of Bruce Lee they are also poorly done. The most obvious is that the backgrounds do not match between Bruce's footage and the new footage. Also check out the sculpted back muscles of Bruce and compare them to his double. It is not even close. The fight scenes with Bruce (and his double) do not flow well. However, anytime you see a fight scene and that Bruce (or his double) does a difficult move such as a flip you will notice that it is the incomparable Yuen Biao (he even has a small role toward the beginning.)
Bruce later visits the funeral of his friend Chin Ku and he is prevented from examining the body (this must mean something to the plot.) When the ceremony takes place a helicopter comes by and snags the coffin. For some strange reason, well to dispose of the fake Bruce character, he jumps on the coffin as it is flying away and is hit with a dart and falls to his death. This is absolutely absurd. Though this is not as bad as the 70s clothes at the funeral or the tacky real funeral footage of Bruce Lee that would come next.

Now the movie gets more interesting and less exploitative. Bobby learns of his brother's death from his father who tells him to meet Sherman Lan. Sherman tells him to go to the Palace of Death. Now this is an interesting place. It is owned by Lewis, played by Roy Horan who has been an executive at Seasonal, an actor who also acted in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, a student of Hwang Jang Lee and currently a lecturer at HK Polytechnic University; obviously his life is more interesting than this film. Bobby suspects Lewis as the culprit behind his brother's death. Lewis likes to eat raw meat, is surrounded by lions (who are fed the fighters that he defeats), Killer Peacocks and a one-armed valet (oh my). The one-armed assistant, a monk from the Fan Yu temple) does not seem that he could be of great use to Lewis, but Lewis says that he is faithful and he has known him for a long time (do not dwell on this fact because the absurdity of what happens later is quite hilarious). I really do not trust one-armed people in Hong Kong films unless they are played by Jimmy Wang Yu.

Lewis tells Bobby of a tower built by abbot Hung Kuang. However, it cannot be found above ground. The abbot had it built underground (this is a nice twist until you see how much they spent on the set design and how many levels there actually are). Obviously there is going to be a show down there with Bobby fighting however is behind all of this madness. I will not give it away (or tell what happens at the Palace of Death) but it is fairly obvious who it will be.

The final act of the film leads to some good fighting scenes, obviously with the help of action director Yuen Wo-Ping, as Bobby makes his way down the tower (try to see how many times Yuen Biao is used as a stunt double; hint check every other move Bobby makes). Most of the film is entertaining (not counting the irritating and unnecessary flashbacks). There is always going to be tackiness involved anytime you invoke Bruce Lee's inimitable name; but once the movie gets past that it is fun to watch. In fact it is the best Bruceploitation film out there -- though that does not necessarily mean that much.

the first one stank,why did we need a second one.......2006-05-23

useing 3 min. worth of bruce lee footage(and not the best of that) doesn't mean bruce lee stars in or would even put his name on this junk. this is just a case of tring to make more money of his name without any care for what he wanted or what he stood for.shame on them for making this mess,and shame on me for buying it.

ric meyers said it best, "if you see that seasonal film logo, you know it's gonna be good........2006-02-28

except karate tiger 4--ha ha, i know you probly like that.

This is also called game of death 2 and officially is called the last bruce lee movie, even though he's not really in it, that's ok, cause like 5 guys that can rival bruce( hwang lee is the only guy i think would really stand a chance against bruce) are in this.

So I advise you to get the GM 2 version, it has english dub that certainly can't rival the jet li collection in badness, but it does havesome altime classic dubbed lines, also look for the song that tarantino ripped for kill bill, which he improved drastically, but it he went with the same singer

Eevry action scene in this is so freaking sweet(except the ones with the white guy).

The main topic that I want to bring up of this movie is the scene where bruce's brother(in the movie)gives in to a yellow toothed nice bodied woman, and she tries to kill him, he prevents her from doing so but then this guy in a lion costume storms in.

Now I have seen this movie about 5 times, and it seriously gets better every time you see it. The first time I saw it the first fight in the greenhouse REALLY caught my eye, but I didn't really like it. Well I need to start watching all movies sober at least the first time but it's really hard when watching a movie called game of death 2 and i didn't even like the first one.

Anyway back to the lion scene----
I still can't figure out whether or not this lion was supposed to be a real lion or a man dressed up in a lion costume. i would love other opinions on this because it is truly mystafying. And I don't know how to spell that word but I can't think of another one to describe this truly unique movie experience that this lion gave me.

So please check this movie out if you get a chance.
You are not going to find this in any 50 pack or something because it is a good, so just go buy it at bestbuy for 7.99 like I did, and I guarantee you will rate this as one of the the best Hwang Lee action films, and it is also my favorite cassanova wong performance ever so enjoy.

Oh yeah, it has aYuen Bioa scene, I think he was fighing with a pole, but that ranked like #14 for fight scenes in this.

Good Choreography, Bad Movie.......2006-01-08

Whoever thinks the choreography of this film is bad is highly mistaken, it's some of the best stuff ever. Also, Tong Lung's kicks show he's no hack, in fact he probably kicks in this movie more than all of Bruce's films in total.

Just like other Ng See-yuen and Yuen Woo-ping collaborations, this movie is all about TKD practitioners. Essentially, this film is Bruceploitation combined with a typical bootmaster filled Seasonal Films movie.

While bruceploitation is no doubt disrespectful stuff, Yuen Woo-ping's choreography and Yuen Biao's stunts saves this one.

Listen to Eric Jacobus, he knows what he's talking about (just search him up and you'll find out why).

Can't agree with other reviews.......2005-07-27

Almost everything following the opening scene is horrible... the way they kill off Bruce is SOOOOOOOOO lame and misleading... he's barely in the film. The rest of the film relies on lesser talents and a hack of an editor. Stupid story lines are ok if the fighting's good... BUT its not. Don't waste your time when there are plenty of good Kung Fu movies out there.

True Game of Death: A Tribute to the Master

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What a way to commemerate Bruce Lee!
5 STARS FOR LAUGHS
GET EVERY BRUCE LI FILM!
fullscreen madness
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True Game of Death: A Tribute to the Master
Starring: Hsao Lung , Alice (XIV) , Ali Tayler , George Steve (II) , and Bruce Le
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What a way to commemerate Bruce Lee!.......2006-02-13

Don't get me wrong here, the plot is ok! But the cutting and pasting pictures of Bruce is ridiculous. The worst part was a scene where they pasted a photo of Bruce in the mirror. Come on guys you can do better than that!

5 STARS FOR LAUGHS.......2005-07-18

This so awful, so incredibly bad you have to get it for the laughs. There are posterized ripped off pieces of footage from BRUCE LEE in Return of the Dragon. BUT, HOLD ON FANS!! BRUCE LEE is not the star of this film, netiher is Bruce Li, or Bruce Le, or Bruce Lo. The star of the film bares a slight--very slight-resemblance, looking like Bruce Lee only when he's wearing the shades (which he does in almost every scene), or when his back is to the camera. IT'S NOT BRUCE LI! I MEAN....Who is the idiot reviewer on this page who said get "all of Bruce Li's films?"-I mean, what does that review have to do with this film? This crap is the perfect example of how NOT to make a Bruce Lee exploitation film. Wait, that doesn't make senese--this film is EXACTLY how a Bruce Lee exploitation film IS MADE: BAD dialog, bad script, bad dubbing, bad fight scenes. Keep an eye out for the Abdul Jabaar wanna be with basketball shorts, sneakers, and a cape! His classic line about "the red light" will have you in stitches for years! Also note the majority of the dialog is groans, grunts, and insipid utterances that have nothing to do with the plot. HILARIOUS!!!

GET EVERY BRUCE LI FILM!.......2004-04-01

Get every Bruce Li film you can find. I think they're all great! The best ones are: Chinese Connection 2, Dynamo, Iron Dragon Strikes Back, The Chinese Stuntman, Deadly Strike, Bruce Lee The Man The Myth, Exit The Dragon Enter The Tiger, Bruce Lee's Deadly Kung Fu, Return Of The Tiger, Soul Brothers Of Kung Fu.

fullscreen madness.......2002-05-07

not only is this film poor to watch but the fact it is in 4.3 ratio instead of a 16.9 or wide screen makes the fight scenes look unbareable to watch, you can see this film has a wide screen edition this is obvious when the fight senes are shown you mostly see half there bodies when you should see more.
not good viewing.

tommy.

Review forTrue game of death.......2001-01-12

This movie is terrible. It does not star Bruce Lee and is not directed by Robert Clouse, as advertised by amazon. The only scenes with Bruce are some third rate snipets from Return of the dragon that have nothing to do with The true game of death movie. The best way to describe this movie is that they tried to remake The game of death In which Bruce Lee does actually appear for those few fight scenes that he is in. Acting was terrible! sound, Terrible! Fighting sequences, terrible! Over all this movie was terrible and I do not reccomend that anyone buy this or rent it for that matter.

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