6.7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant professor Lucas, cells from the martial arts master are removed and grown into 3 adult Bruce Lee clones. After undergoing training to bring their skills up to the level of their 'father', the 3 are sent out to battle crime, with one sent to take on a gold smuggler, and the other 2 teaming up to shut down an evil mad scientist.
Starring: Ryong Keo, Irina Shevchenko, Bruce Le, Jon T. Benn, Bolo YeungForeign | 100% |
Martial arts | 48% |
Action | 15% |
Drama | 8% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.35:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
English
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 3.0 | |
Audio | 3.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Note: This film is available on Blu-ray as part of Severin's The Game of Clones: Bruceploitation Collection Vol. 1.
When Severin Films released Kung Fu Trailers of
Fury
and Return of Kung Fu Trailers of
Fury
several years ago, I'm sure I wasn't the only one initially thinking, "Well, that's a stupid idea for a release", only to have the sheer
lunacy of the trailers assembled in both collections "fight back" against that assessment, as if to say in response, "Yeah, well who's stupid
now?" In fact, both Kung Fu Trailers of Fury and Return of Kung Fu Trailers of Fury were kind of deliriously enjoyable in
their
own slapdash way, and those releases evidently were one of the inspirations for a full on collection of so-called "Brucesploitation" films, this time
offering the actual films in addition to their trailers. The goofily affable Michael Worth, who has contributed so many fun commentaries
through the years to various kung fu films on Blu-ray, is your "host" of sorts here, offering introductions to all the films and commentaries for many
of
them. If none of these films is ever going to be acclaimed as an unappreciated masterpiece, and if both video and audio on many of the films in
this
set might be charitably termed problematic, merely having these films in high definition will be alluring, and an absolute glut of other supplemental
material is included as well, making this a probable "must have" for a certain demographic.
The Clones of Bruce Lee is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.35:1. In his introduction, Michael Worth states this transfer was culled from two 35mm prints, one German and one Italian. Expectations need to be set accordingly for virtually all of the films in this set, and for those who are going to take the time to read all of the reviews of the films in this set "in order", this will just be the first of many times I'm going to mention various issues that afflict a lot of the transfers. First, one of the pluses: there's some generally decent color on hand quite a bit of the time, even if temperatures and densities can noticeably vary, and with an overall kind of dowdy brown faded quality. Some of the minuses include pretty rampant damage, though certainly not as severe as is seen in some of the other films in this set, and a somewhat curious absence of the same sort of thick grain that is seen in some of the other transfers. One of the things I'll be discussing in several of the transfers is some anamorphic oddness which doesn't only pertain to "typical" bugaboos like squeezing at the edges of the frame (something that's definitely on display here), but what I can only compare to the x and y axes of a rectangle being slightly tweaked to make it a parallelogram, so that the entire frame is kind of tilted or skewed. You can see one example of this in screenshot 2, but those of you who parse your way through all of the other reviews of films in this set will be accorded further examples in various other transfers.
The Clones of Bruce Lee features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track. While there's some noticeable background hiss, the track is surprisingly full bodied a lot of the time, especially with regard to some of the scoring. As with many of the tracks offered in this set, there is an overall boxy sound that can be especially noticeable during effects. Also as with several tracks in this set, the high end can be pretty brash and bright. Unsurprisingly, the dubbing is hilariously bad in terms of matching lip movements. Optional English subtitles are available.
When in his introduction Michael Worth advises to "put your mind aside", that's pretty much spot on, but this is a simply spectacularly gonzo way to get your actual Brucesploitation Film Festival underway after the appetizer of the Enter the Clones of Bruce documentary. This offers reasonably decent technical merits, which is frankly about as good as you're going to get in this set, but the supplements are a lot of fun.
(Still not reliable for this title)
Si wang mo ta / 死亡魔塔
1978
Bruce Against Iron Hand / Dai gau tau yue siu leung ji / Da jiao tou yu sao niang zi / 大教頭與騷娘子
1979
Dragon on Fire / Kuai quan guai zhao / 快拳怪招
1978
Mission for the Dragon / Ying quan / Maegwon / 鷹拳
1979
Za jia gao shou / 雜家高手
1979
The New Game of Death / Xin si wang you xi / 新死亡遊戲
1975
He's a Legend, He's a Hero / Yong chun da xiong / 詠春大兄
1976
Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story / Yi dai meng long / 一代猛龍
1974
San lung mang tam / Shen long meng tan / Mie jue qi qi / 神龍猛探 / 滅絕七七
1980
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu / Lee sam geuk wai jan dei yuk moon / Li san jiao wei zhen di yu men / 李三腳威震地獄門
1977
Cameroun Connection
1985
In the Line of Duty | Huáng jiā zhàn shì | Wong ga jin si | 皇家戰士 | 2K Remastered
1986
Liu A-Cai yu Huang Fei-Hong
1976
Deep Thrust / Tie zhang xuan feng tui / 鐵掌旋風腿
1972
新精武門 / Xīn jīng wǔ mén
1976
合氣道 / He qi dao / Lady Kung Fu
1972
Chi jiao xiao zi / Chik geuk siu ji / 赤腳小子
1993
Sì dà mén pài | 四大門派 | Limited Edition
1977
蛇鶴八步 / She he ba bu
1978
劍花煙雨江南 / Jian hua yan yu jiang nan
1977