Leofwine_draca
BRUCE LEE'S SECRET is a straight Bruceploitation film starring Bruce Li. The setting is San Francisco and Li plays a restaurant worker who runs afoul of the usual gangs of thugs determined to test out their kung fu skills on our hero. There's a mix of training footage, some comedy involving kids and neighbours, and a whole array of fight scenes shot in typically 'street' locations such as parks, car parks, and alleyways. The action is plentiful and quite fun, although overly staged and a little slow by modern standards; Li has always been my favourite Bruceploitation actor so I was quite pleased to see him here. The supporting cast includes cameoing stars Hwang Jang Lee, Carter Wong, and Roy Horan.
Louise Allen
This film should be examined in the context of its time and the cinematic genre to which it belongs. Whether or not it adds to or detracts from the name of Bruce Lee (an irrelevant consideration), it is a fine example of 1970s Taiwan produced martial arts entertainment. Ho Chung-Tao, who actually hated the appellation "Bruce Li" was a superb athlete and accomplished martial artist in his own right. The western members of the cast were all highly trained martial artists themselves: Phil Cohen was a student of Bruce Lee in the US, Roy Horan qualified in Shorinji Kempo, Alan Ellerton expert in White Crane, Xingyi and Tai Chi, Greg Talovic a Taekwondo instructor. Thus the fight scenes were perfectly acceptable and not as unrealistic as in some films. For martial arts movie aficionados, this film is a real classic.
capnbobbert
i saw Bruce lee: a dragon story [1974} and i started to cry because it disgusted me. I just read Bruce Li's mini biography on here and he stated that he won't play Bruce Lee's part because he knows he could never be him, yet i still ponder why he took the part of Bruce Lee in this film. In this movie Bruce Lee apparently is having an affair with a lady named Betty Ping who was supposedly his friend in real life. In the real world, she claimed to have never had any relationship other than a friendship with Bruce Lee so this movie is incorrect on so many levels. I hate these cheesy directors and producers who try to bring Bruce Lee back and trying to gain some money off of his death. It hurts even more because they're telling a false story about him. I mean...how do you think his wife Linda feels? She's watching a false movie about her husband having a love affair with a lady who claimed she never had a love affair with Bruce!!
Dartkick
Hey, I've seen my share of kung-fu garbage, and this film is something I wasted a good boring Monday night on. Expectingly nothing but garbage, I just popped in the tape and thought I'd just let it run. To tell the truth, it's surprisingly decent. Bruce Li is no Bruce Lee, but he's certainly the best of the imitators, and this film is one of his better moments.Another of those bad-yet-enjoyable films. Worthwhile if you're a kung-fu / Bruce Lee fan though.7 / 10
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