Ultimate Bruce Lee: Bruce Lee:Game Of Death (1978)

Game Of Death, the movie Bruce Lee never completed. Bruce Lee had begun filming this movie after "The Way Of The Dragon" but was interrupted when Hollywood offered him to star in the movie "Enter The Dragon" ,(1973), which was Bruce Lee's last completed film. When Bruce Lee passed away, the producers such as Raymond Chow knew that they had to complete the film so then the film was later released in 1978 in Hong Kong and 1979 in the U.S. The completed film of the movie was also completed by "Enter The Dragon" director Robert Clouse. Run time for the movie is 103 minutes for the international version and the movie.

My Thoughts On The Movie:
I own the completed version and I saw the original version and even though the original version doesn't last as long as with Bruce Lee in it, I still very much prefer it than the original version. Man, if Bruce Lee was still alive and completed the "Game Of Death", then it would be a million times better. The completed version does include most of the scenes from the original but made it so much worse. As for the scenes without Bruce Lee actually in it, they used a Bruce Lee so called look a like that doesn't look like Bruce Lee. Most scenes even used stock footage of Bruce Lee from his other movies and god does it look terrible. Story from completed version, not so great either...My favourite fight in the movie is probably the first fight that Bruce Lee filmed with Dan Inosanto or the last fight Bruce Lee filmed of this movie with famous retired basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Overall Rating:Completed Version-70/100
Original Version-85/100

Cast:
Bruce Lee as "Hai Tien"
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as "Mantis (5th Floor Guardian)"
James Tien as "Tien"
Chieh Yuan as "Chieh"
Dan Inosanto as "3rd Floor Guardian"
Ji Han Jae as "4th Floor Guardian

Story: (From Wikipedia)
The original plot involved Lee playing the role of Hai Tien, a retired champion martial artist who was confronted by the Korean underworld gangs. They tell him the story of a pagoda where guns are prohibited, and under heavy guard by highly skilled martial artists who are protecting something (which is not identified at all in any surviving material) held on its top level. The gang boss wants Hai to be a part of a group whose purpose is to retrieve said item. They would be the second group to try to do so as the first attempt with a previous group had failed. When Hai refuses, his younger sister and brother are kidnapped, forcing him to participate. Hai, as well as four other martial artists (two of which were played by James Tien and Chieh Yuan), then fight their way up a five-level pagoda, encountering a different challenge on each floor. The setting of the pagoda was at Beopjusa temple in Songnisan National Park in South Korea.
The pagoda, called Palsang-jon, is the only remaining wooden pagoda in South Korea. At the base of the pagoda they fight 50 people all black belts in martial arts, while inside the pagoda, they encounter a different opponent on each floor, each more challenging than the last. Although his allies try to help out, they are handily defeated, and Hai must face each of the martial artists in one-on-one combat. He defeats Filipino martial arts master Dan Inosanto, hapkido master Ji Han Jae, and finally Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who fights with a free and fluid style mirroring Lee's Jeet Kune Do. Because Kareem's character has great size and strength in addition to a fighting style as potent as Lee's, he can only be defeated once Hai recognizes that an unusually high sensitivity to light is his greatest weakness.
Immediately after defeating the giant guardian, Hai turns around and descends the staircase, heading out the pagoda. Despite all the talk of something awaiting up top of the (now unguarded) flight of stairs, there's no mention of anyone going up to retrieve it. No surviving material explains how this will affect Hai or his captive siblings.

Now it's time for some video clips!
Game Of Death Original Scenes (1/4):