The Clones of Bruce Lee (1977)

Director:

Joseph Velasco

Release Date:

1981 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Tagline:

Watch the real Bruce Lee destroy his clones in the greatest death fight ever!

Plot:

Bruce Lee has just died, but the BSI is swinging into action to salvage the situation. Aided by the brilliant Professor Lucas...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Clone | Female Nudity | Cloning | Female Frontal Nudity

Cast

Bruce Le	...	Bruce Lee clone
Dragon Lee	...	Bruce Lee clone
Yi Tao Chang	...	Bruce Lee clone (as Bruce Lai)
Bruce Thai	...	Bruce Lee clone
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jon T. Benn	...	Professor (as John Benn)
Tao Chiang	...	Martial Arts trainer (as Do Kong)
Siu-Lung Leung
Bolo Yeung	...	Martial Arts trainer (as Yang Tze)

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Damn! - Why didn't I think up this plot?!

Here's yet another in the fairly lengthy list of Bruceploitation flicks to emerge after the great mans untimely demise.

Well, first things first, you just have to hand it to the makers of this – what a bloody ridiculous (i.e super cool!) plot! There is just one slight problem from the start however……the three clones of the late martial arts star actually bear bugger all resemblance to him! (nor to each other even more alarmingly!!!) Still, let us not nit pick over such erm….inconsequential factors; rather let us instead revel in the never ending series of chop-socky fights, cool seventies fashions (including humongous sunglasses and medallions) and indeed the presence of perennial B-movie faves Bruce Le, Dragon Lee and Bolo Yueng.

Also of note there are some admittedly hilarious scenes on offer including an entirely gratuitous sequence featuring a group of naked girls on a beach, and in another set of scenes, a bunch of chubby bronze warriors who just can't seem to catch on that chomping on certain poisonous plants isn't conducive to one's good health(!!!)

Despite the above high points, it does have to be said that the film is actually rather mundane in it's execution however and that the numerous fights (which account for the majority of the films running time) do actually become somewhat tiresome after a while. Nonetheless, as I previously said, credit where credit's due – for sheer stupidity of plot, this is something of a classic!