Fist of Fear, Touch of Death

1980 "The 3 Greatest Masters!"
2.4| 1h26m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 September 1980 Released
Producted By: Aquarius Promotions
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A television reporter interviews fighters and promoters about Bruce Lee in preparation for a tournament to claim the title of “Successor to the Bruce Lee legacy”. Footage from Bruce Lee's films and interviews are repurposed in pseudo-documentary style.

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Matthew Mallinson

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Aquarius Promotions

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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Frank Markland A tournament is held to find the successor of Bruce Lee, while the the tournament is being held we learn that Bruce Lee's great grandfather was a Samurai (Despite the obvious fact that Samurai are Japanese and Bruce Lee is Chinese) and the movie amounts to an amateurish cut and paste job that will be looked at with scorn for even fans of Bruceploitation. The biggest surprise about this travesty is the quite good cast it has, in that we have Fred Williamson (Say what you will but he's got charisma), Adolph Caesar and uh, Bruce Lee clips. It's hard to even qualify this as a movie because everything about it feels so incompetently made. The samurai clips have some moments (Well if you're an old school fan like me.) but I can always try and locate that movie (Which I most likely won't do for a long time.) and the fake interviews, fake stories and indeed the shameless promotion of Bill Louie as Kato, all make this a true labor of badness. The Bruce Lee clips are worthless since he does no fighting in them (I mean seriously if you're going to steal clips steal from Fist Of Fury) and basically it's all one cut and paste mess with very little worth or value. It's not even hilarious just painful to watch, although the music in the beginning of the credits (When it flashes the title credit) is hilarious.1/2* out of 4-(Awful)
erik_ud This movie is no tribute to Bruce Lee whatsoever. It's not even a martial arts film. It's not even a "film". It's bad. There is not plot,no decent acting, just cutting and pasting from other movies and some people "saying" Bruce Lee might be killed by some 'touch of death' and a reporter hanging out at a karate contest (that you only get to see from a distance). You shouldn't watch this film. It's not even cult. The only reason they made this movie was to be able to print Bruce Lee on the cover and because they were hoping it would sell. Anyone could have made a Bruce Lee-tribute that's better than this "thing". Don't see it. Don't buy it. Don't give it to people you like.
pwt1981 Only in the presence of this movie can Gigli and Glitter be called cinematic masterpieces without a trace of irony or sarcasm. When they have a karate tournament (of which only the "finals" are shown) to succeed Bruce Lee culminate in a boxing match with a few kicks thrown in, you know God Himself will have a hard time elevating this movie from the bowels of hell to putrid. Over and above the relative absence of martial arts, there was barely a hint of a plot, what plot existed was completely disjointed, and there was abysmal acting (if that's what you want to call it), Aaron Banks' scenes with Bruce Lee, where they took turns telling each other how great they are (shoot me now), didn't even look close to being in the same room. After watching this movie, if I didn't know better, I would've thought Bruce Lee had been forced to an advance screening and applied the Touch of Death to himself.If I had to bring up pluses for the movie, it would have to be the exhibitions of some of the true martial artists. The old chop-socky film that introduced Bruce Lee's grandfather in between Lee arguing with his dad over steak (?!) was funny in the sense of watching someone get repeated hit in the groin. It featured a little person and a guy that uses an abacus as a weapon. And if this movie wanted to be the worst ever, it succeeded admirably. If you want a new appreciation on any movie (including Santa with Muscles and Napoleon Dynamite), watch Fist of Fury, Touch of Death. All others, avoid.
tony_phonet When it comes to bad movies, some are just plain bad, and some are so bad that they're good. Sometimes they are so bad that they become "good" but quickly become bad again because they're so stupid, and very few become good again because they're so terrible. This movie, however, doesn't make it back up the hill. Although this seems like a well-intended tribute to Bruce Lee, it's inaccurate to the core. I personally found some of this misleading info to be funny at first, only because I couldn't believe that someone could be so stupid, but the rest of the movie just dragged on and got boring and annoying. I was never able to watch this whole movie in one sitting. Although as a Bruce Lee fan, I wasn't offended (since I knew the truth), I just kept thinking to myself as I was watching and hoping it'd get better "Oh my gosh... the writers need to be shot."