Jesse Magee There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said about "Fist of Fear, Touch of Death". Take a screenwriter who has never written for any production before (or since for that matter) and has no knowledge of the subject whatever, several B-list or lower celebrities who need a paycheck, a few of the worst actors ever to grace a screen, unrelated and unwatchable stock footage then give the entire mess over to an apparently blind and deaf editor with some sort of palsy and call it a "Documentary". Calling this pile of garbage a "Documentary" is like trying to sell a small child's mud pies in a gourmet bakery.I must call special attention to the first fight scene in the movie. Bill Louie pulls an opponent's eyes out and "in a dazzling piece of showmanship" tosses them to the crowd. It's just one gut-bustingly funny moment in a movie full of them. Also of note is Hollywood Browde. In slightly more than 60 seconds on screen, she manages to pull of the worst bit of acting I've seen in a lifetime of watching and enjoying bad movies. She should receive a "Razzie Lifetime Achievement Award" based solely on this performance.There aren't words in the language to describe this thing. Film schools should show this as an example of everything one could do wrong while making a movie. You can't fully appreciate the depths of bad this movie aspires to until you have seen it. And you should. As a "Documentary" it's horrible but as a comedy, well, as a comedy it's GOLD, friends. Pure gold.

blooutcast Ah, the Dragon and the Cobra. If you were seriously into the martial arts genre, popularized in part by Enter the Dragon several years earlier, of course you'd call it crap and insulting to Bruce Lee's memory. If you were to look a little deeper, though, it doesn't look like it was meant to be anything more than a lampoon of the sport. Look at the scenes with the Flying Fatman and the dude whose eyeballs got plucked out. Were these actually real events or staged to make some sort of point? And what of the "early" Bruce Lee footage? Was it meant to be a serious biography? If the director were really ashamed of his work, he would have been likely to have himself billed as Alan Smithee so as to avoid embarrassment. But the dude who played Jasper Milktoast in this flick was willing to take his lumps, whereas many other directors would not. And before you call this crap, take a look at what's in our theaters today! Plainly put: foolish, asinine, retarded, lame, juvenile… in other words, if you want good clean mindless fun, FIVE STAR DIAMOND!

lemon_magic Where to begin with this one? It's so bad, so unintentionally hilarious, in so many ways, that I am almost paralyzed with indecision about what to address first, and how to keep this review under 1000 words. OK, I know. The real problem with this film is that the writer and director were apparently on acid when they put this together. It's just a mess. Several real life celebrities play themselves; a couple of minor martial art luminaries get to act out their Bruce Lee fantasies; there's some archival footage from an early Chinese soap opera where a young Lee played a supporting part; this is mixed incoherently in with footage swiped from an old time Chop Sockey film, claiming that this footage is the back story of his "grandfather"(????). There's a Madison Square "title bout" to determine who gets to be Lee's successor (or sometimes his "title', despite the fact that Lee didn't compete in tournaments after his movie career took off,and never had a "title" that I knew about, and his "successors", if any, would be members of his Jeet Kune Do training group....none of whom appear in this film) There's several badly mangled pieces of Lee interview footage where someone dubs over Lee's actual words so it looks like Aaron Banks (or the TV announcer)is interviewing him. BTW, the dubbed speeches use the terms "karate" and "kung fu" interchangeably,and it's obvious that whoever wrote and dubbed the footage didn't know the difference.There are other extremely odd choices. Fred Williamson is in here for a bit, playing himself, and the movie wastes about 10 minutes following him as he oversleeps, tries to catch a taxi, and verbally spars with the announcer (who gives him a lift to the Square). Ron Van Clief appears (as himself) in an interview while he works out (which sort of makes sense) and then rescues a couple joggers from a gang of thugs on HIS way to the Garden (apparently the interview camera followed him out of the gym). Aaron Banks (in real life a promoter and sometime karate competitor) babbles on about the "death touch" and then demonstrates it for the camera (anyone with a smidgen of martial arts background will recognize what Banks is doing as a variant of Lee's "one inch punch", NOT a "death touch".) Some guy dresses up in a Kato costume and also rescues some girls by beating up a some thugs, and the inclusion of this footage makes so sense whatsoever in terms of the story or the milieu. Add did I mention the actual bouts? At one point one the competitors rips the eyes out of another one! I'm pretty sure that counts as a foul and a disqualification under most events that would occur at Madison Square - not to mention prison time for aggravated assault and a million dollar lawsuit. It just goes on and on like this; nothing connects to anything else, and the feeble "framing device" of the TV interviews doesn't even begin to make up for the weird stuff the producers just made up. If Bruce Lee had come back from the dead, the first thing he would have done would be to pulverize the director and producers responsible for this movie. I am very surprised that his family and estate didn't sue. The only reason to see this is a) the footage of the soap opera with the adolescent Bruce (which I had never seen before) and b)to see just how bad an exploitation movie can get.

Mike Eder First off the movie is an obvious comedy that knows it is being funny. It IS a funny movie that is a comment on all the fake Bruce Lee movies being done at the time. The violence is comic to start with. Scenes like the eyeballs are played for laughs. Making Lee's voice fem was an obvious joke too, as was his "Samururi" background. The black and white footage IS Bruce as a child actor. Redubbed to be satirically biographical it cuts between the old film and the 70s B Samurai movie in a direct parody of "The Real Bruce Lee". The skits are meant to be funny as are the would be attackers. Their are some real martial arts in the film by excellent practitioners and the point of the whole movie is that you should be yourself. The message is use Bruce to inspire you but be your own self in martial arts and in acting. I liked this very much it's fun cheese that doesn't take itself seriously.