Bruce Lee fights back from the Grave – 1976
Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave is the worst kind of Brucesploitation there is. They haven’t even bothered to include any scenes with Bruce Lee anywhere in the picture. What you get is lightning hitting Bruce Lees Grave and that’s all…it’s over in like thirty seconds.
The rest of the film regards a Kung Fu instructor tracking down a few thugs who he believes have murdered his friend. He has to fight his way past each and every one of them and eventually finds the mastermind behind it all. It’s kind of a storyline you would expect from Bruce Lee so I guess they got that right. As a matter of fact I think it reminds me a bit of Way of the Dragon. Or perhaps I wanted it to remind me of something so bad I interpreted it that way.
The star of this flick is Bruce Lea, you have to be impressed by the innovative ways these guys try to make it seem like this is a lost flick with the genuine Bruce Lee. This, and a lot of other films that is. It’s not all terrible but I don’t think there’s any reason for anyone to watch this more than once. It’s rather pointless! I come to think of a quote from another movie – King of the Kickboxers, where the cop and hero of the movie have to watch some genuine death movies, snuff. He doesn’t realize that the actions in the movies are for real and comments them to be “like Bruce Lee movies – without Bruce!”. That’s kind of how I feel. The movie would probably have been bad with Bruce Lee in it, but Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave doesn’t even have that!
Avoid!
