Leofwine_draca This ain't a film. I know it's marketed as such, but it's nothing like a movie. Instead it's the most obvious, crass, stupid cash-in on the whole 'Bruce Lee' craze you'll ever see, a semi-factual, semi-fictional excuse of a movie that makes no sense whatsoever. I can't even begin to describe the story, because there isn't one. Half of the film is a kind of documentary about the martial arts, filmed at a bout between rival masters. The other half consists of clips of old movies that supposedly tell Bruce's life and reveal his passion for kung fu.The script is absolutely diabolical and completely nonsensical. The funniest part of the film by far is the 'soap opera' retelling of Bruce's life as a child. Because Bruce actually was a child actor, appearing in loads of films like this, all they do is take various clips from a film and re-dub them to make them about Bruce himself. It's as bad as it sounds. Then, even funnier, are more clips, from a period kung fu flick – INVINCIBLE SUPER CHAN, incidentally – that are supposed to be an account of the life of Bruce's great-grandfather in the 19th century, the "best samurai in China". What idiot thinks that samurai warriors are Chinese instead of Japanese? Elsewhere we get clips of Bruce in action and plenty of interviews with the actor, where the other 'actors' in this film are added in to make it look like they're in the same room (it doesn't work). The worst bit is the part where Aaron Banks and Bruce talk about each other's techniques which goes back and forth like a tennis match. Not only is the footage with Banks modern and the footage of Bruce archive (you can easily tell by the quality), they even use a voice stand-in for Bruce on occasion. Banks is some kind of fight promoter and has zero connection with the star, while host Adolph Caesar was an Oscar-winning announcer who they roped in to add gravitas.There are a couple of clips of Ron Van Clief training at his home which allow the producers to give the star third billing, while Fred Williamson turns up in a few comedic scenes, playing himself, who keeps getting mistaken for Harry Belafonte! There's another interlude with Bill Louie dressed up as Kato fighting off some would-be rapists and then a kickboxing fight that doesn't have a lot to do with anything else. FIST OF FEAR, TOUCH OF DEATH is an absolutely awful cash-in with no artistic value whatsoever, although fans of bad films will be delighted to see just how blatantly bad it is. The only good thing about it is the decent footage from INVINCIBLE SUPER CHAN, which makes me want to track that film down...

blooutcast Ah, the Dragon and the Cobra. If you were seriously into the martial arts genre, popularized in part by Enter the Dragon several years earlier, of course you'd call it crap and insulting to Bruce Lee's memory. If you were to look a little deeper, though, it doesn't look like it was meant to be anything more than a lampoon of the sport. Look at the scenes with the Flying Fatman and the dude whose eyeballs got plucked out. Were these actually real events or staged to make some sort of point? And what of the "early" Bruce Lee footage? Was it meant to be a serious biography? If the director were really ashamed of his work, he would have been likely to have himself billed as Alan Smithee so as to avoid embarrassment. But the dude who played Jasper Milktoast in this flick was willing to take his lumps, whereas many other directors would not. And before you call this crap, take a look at what's in our theaters today! Plainly put: foolish, asinine, retarded, lame, juvenile… in other words, if you want good clean mindless fun, FIVE STAR DIAMOND!

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."

AwesomeWolf ... then movies like this would never have been made.If you've ever seen a Bruce Li/Le/Lai/ or Dragon Lee movie, then you should know what Bruce-ploitation is all about. "Fist of Fear, Touch of Death" takes Bruce-ploitation several steps further, and to a new low. The basic plot of the movie is apparently centered around a martial arts bout to determine Bruce Lee's successor.Most of the movie follows interviews with Bruce Lee, dubbed and spliced with Aaron Banks and Adolph Caesar. Fictional scenes of his family depict Bruce Lee as a martial arts-obsessed teenager ("Mother, I can kill a man with my bare hands - you don't understand me!", yet later calling someone else crazy...), randomly spliced with scenes from an old chopsocky movie supposedly depicting Bruce Lee's great-grandfather as "19th century China's greatest samurai" - can't have been too hard, I don't think there were many. These scenes take up most of the movie - I nearly forgot about the whole determining Bruce Lee's successor thing, and when they finished, I was so happy thinking that the movie was over, only to realize there were another twenty minutes. Damn. It seems as though the writers (if any) forgot what the basic plot was about and went off on same bizarre rant about Bruce Lee's heritage (the one they made up, not his real heritage).This movie does not have cult-status in any way, nor does it give the cheesy-laughs you'd expect from a regular chopsocky movie. The only thing it manages to do is insult Bruce Lee and his legacy (even Fred Williamson says the same thing in this sad excuse for a movie). Avoid at all costs.1/10