David (otherwise known as Tiger) investigates the mysterious death of Bruce (otherwise known as Dragon). As 'Bruceploitation' goes this has the usual tacky use of Bruce Lee's funeral footage and direct copies of his martial art movements and noises and actual scenes where David disguises himself as an old bearded man and a bespectacled telephone engineer like Bruce Lee in 'Fist of Fury' but it's not terrible. Bruce Li is not charismatic like Bruce Lee but is a competent fighter and his final combat with the soft spoken 'The Baron' at the rocky shore's edge with the waves crashing is well staged. The characters aren't memorable except for the aforementioned 'The Baron'. The use (legally?) of music from Isaac Hayes, Pink Floyd and Johnny Pearson's 'Sleepy Shores' is quite amusing.
Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger
1976 [CN]
Action / Crime / Drama
Plot summary
This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a private investigation and ends up avenging the brutal death of his own girlfriend.
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"I never claimed to be a gentleman"
Of course it stinks
Bruce Lee is dead and there must be foul play, there must! How can a movie like this not fail? It must fail. There is no way to make a winner out of this. Instead of action and martial arts we start with people who can do action and martial arts (not act) trying to act, trying to create suspense, mystery, and solve a crime. That must fail. The all talk and no action goes on for 23 minutes before there is a poorly choreographed and filmed fight in the dark. The one thing that could make the movie interesting takes 23 minutes to get to and then flops. This pattern continues until the end. Thanks to the fast forward button I watched the entire movie – with a run time of one hour and eighteen minutes in about thirty minutes. This is the preferred method to watch this movie. I found it almost entertaining that way and rate it a generous four out of ten but only at 2x or 4x speed.
An Attempt to Fill a Very Large Void After the Death of Bruce Lee
Not convinced that Bruce Lee died by accident, his good friend "David Lee" (Bruce Li) sets out to investigate the real cause of death. His first clue comes from Bruce Lee's mistress and Hong Kong film star "Suzy Yung" (Chao Hsauo-Chun) who has some possible incriminating evidence against a major crime figure known as "the Baron" (Li Chang). But when "the Tiger" (the other name David Lee is known by) begins to get too close to the truth, the Baron becomes intent upon stopping him at all costs and comes after both Suzy Yung and David's girlfriend "Susie" (Kong Sam-Yi) to make his point. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that the death of Bruce Lee left a very large void in martial arts movies which several different film studios tried to fill--and Bruce Li happened to be one of the actors chosen in that regard. Unfortunately, unlike his famous predecessor, he didn't have the acting ability to really appeal to world-wide audiences and his films suffered as a result. And this particular movie is indicative of that fact as it pales in comparison to any and all of Bruce Lee's films. That being said, I have rated it accordingly. Below average.