Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Andrew Leavold Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave is a very misleading title from grindhouse distributor Aquarius, run by the late Australian-born exploitation genius Terry Levene. Aquarius, renowned for their lowest-of-low budget chop sockeys and Sonny Chiba tamperings, later recut scenes from Bruce Lee's films into an entirely fictitious documentary called Fist Of Fear Touch Of Death (1980), and released the Italian zombie/cannibal shocker Zombie Holocaust as Doctor Butcher MD (1980) - along with mock surgery performed on the back of a truck driving through New York City. I don't know about you, but it makes me proud to be an Australian.Levene's poster for Bruce Lee Fights Back... promises a zombie Bruce in a supernatural slap-down with the Black Angel of Death. The credits even feature someone suspiciously Bruce-like leaping out of a polystyrene tomb - then cuts to a film that has NO Bruce, NO Angel of Death, and is in fact some crummy nameless generic kung fu filler starring someone claiming to be "Bruce K.L. Lea". Ripped off? You may well feel so, but WAIT - it's one of the real howlers of bad kung fu cinema, in EVERY sense of the word."Bruce" plays Wong Han, a Korean immigrant in LA visiting his old friend Go Hok Khan who he discovers has committed "suicide" and is now being cremated in the basement. Heartbroken, "Bruce" starts to wander the streets of LA at random, carrying his friend's bones and a glossy 8x10 in a sling around his neck. Through a bizarre chain of coincidences he rescues a girl called Susan from a shirtless rapist who worked for Go Hok Khan, and remembers - with photo clarity, mind you - the five strangers who visited him before his death. A black guy, a cowboy, a Mexican... lady, you're channeling a Village People concert! A p*ss-and-vinegar-filled Bruce decides to slay his way through the list Kill Bill style - and there's a bit of EVERY kung fu film in Kill Bill, isn't there, kids? - but not before visiting a very keen Susan's crashpad. She asks him to stay; a very pale and humorless "Bruce" warns her it would not be proper - but leaves the box of human remains for safekeeping. What a guy.Bruce Lee Fights Back... is a real schizophrenic mess, filmed in America but dubbed in Hong Kong, with everyone voiced in the same petulant monotone. You can almost feel sorry for the American actors forced to exaggerate every motion, so that picking up the phone becomes a three-act Greek tragedy. The filmmakers break the cardinal kung fu rule by speeding up a fight in a wrecking yard into a Benny Hill chase spectacular, but best of all is the howling, yelping, whimpering and robot noises in EVERY fight scene.For years, horror fans thought it was a kung fu anti-classic directed by Italian cannibal maestro Umberto Lenzi - purely because Levene switched credits with a Euro cop thriller and was too cheap to change the poster. Well, there's no cannibals, no zombie Bruce Lee, just the sounds of R2D2 having a heart attack in Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave.

elitistpunk People hate on this movie like it is their job. I found it for $3.99 at a TOPS grocery store in Upper Tupper, Adirondacks, NY. Worth every penny!!! While how much the movie has to do with the title can be debated, the fight scenes are pretty awesome. Better than this, though, is the incredible acting. I instantly fell in love with the dubbing (usually does not happen) and have watched this film several times since. Show it to all your friends. This is an excellent kick-off to a kung-fu party as it sets the mood and gives a light tone before you get into more legitimate films.Highly recommended, especially at 3.99 for the DVD!!! Bonus: the DVD comes with a quiz!

kilgore-trout0 Five minutes into this movie and you will know exactly how great it is! Starring the incredibly talented Bruce K. L. Lee (who can act every bit as good as he fights!) and the absolutely gorgeous Deborah Chaplin (good to know that old Charlie's genes are still out there doing good work) and a host of kung-fu-practicing baddies... this movie is not to be missed! I always found the original Bruce Lee's movies to be incredibly hokey and slow-paced. This movie never seems to let up for a second. B.K.L. Lee can't even get himself a cab without having it turn into a demonstration of his kicking prowess! The tentative romance between Lea and his buxom female lead is very well handled... her breathy sigh as he leaves her to go off and avenge his dead friend... magnificent! Even though the movie is dubbed, the voices are so well-matched to the lip movements that you probably won't even tell it's not the actors' real voices. To cap it all off is the devastating, heart-breaking finale. No, you can't practice kung fu without casualties... even the good must die in service of the art.

shamus_bass This movie escaped me for years. Several times I watched the first five minutes and every time I stopped thinking: This isn't Bruce Lee, this is some cheesy rip off. Anger and hatred soon followed, shortly before my ejecting the tape and throwing it once again to the confines of my shelf. One day however, during an early Jackie Chan fest we ran out of videos. In the Kung fu mood we stumbled across none other than BL fights back ftg. What a film. From the very beginning you soon realise this films true potential, not as a serious Kung Fu movie but as one of the funniest films of all time. The hilariously dubbed voices are funny but if that's not enough check out the wacky editing of the fight sequences, 300 songs on one soundtrack, impossible scene changes, you name it. Plus a list of characters you'll never forget. Cigar smoking man, pipe smoking man and his accomplice eye candy, the cab driver, Susan, and most of all: The Cowboy. I'm gonna show this film to my grandkids!