Finishing the Game Synopsis & Summary

Synopsis

Better Luck Tomorrow and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin takes a comic look at a longstanding bit of cinema mythology with this mockumentary exploring the making of Bruce Lee's unfinished final film Game of Death. When martial arts star Lee died in 1973 after having shot roughly twenty-minutes of the full-length feature, director Robert Clouse vowed to complete the film using a Bruce Lee look-a-like. Though the film was eventually released into theaters in 1978, fans continue to debate just how much involvement Lee had in the making of the film nearly three decades after the fact. Perhaps viewers will never know for certain just how much of Lee they are seeing in the final product, but in this knowing satire director Lin offers a hilarious look at how things might have gone down while simultaneously skewering mainstream cinema for it's stereotypical treatment of Asian-American actors. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Movie Info

Theatrical Release Date:
10/05/2007
DVD Release Date:
06/24/2008
Rating:
Not Rated
Run Time:
88 min.
Distributor(s):
IFC
Director(s):
Genre(s):
Themes:
Dying Young, Race Relations, Filmmaking
Tone:
Goofy, Madcap, Frantic
Keywords:
activism, actor, hypocrisy, merchandising, racism, refugee, veteran [military]
Country of Origin:
USA - Limited (10-05-2007)
Language:
English
Status:
DVD