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Looking
For Bruce Lee
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Country
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South
Korea |
| Year: |
2002 |
| Genre: |
Comedy
/ Music |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Running
Time: |
1H14 |
| Distributor: |
metro
DVD |
| Date
reviewed: |
03/07/2004 |
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| Producer: |
Pop
Entertainment Asia |
| Director: |
Kang
Ron |
Cast: Han Gyung-Rok, Park Yun-Sik,
Lee Sang-Myeon, Lee Sang-Hyek |
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Story:
The four real-life members of the punk band, Crying
Nut perform at Drug, a popular club near Hong-Ik University
in Seoul, the most popular area for underground music
in the country. While the band members, Kyung-rok, Sang-myun,
Sang-hyuk and Yun-sik live about their lives, a series
of bodies are found dead near their part of Seoul. A
long-haired exhibitionist who went about revealing himself
to high school girls and a girl who had been to one
of their concerts, are found dead. Strangely, a picture,
object or symbol representing Bruce Lee is left behind
at the crime scenes. For this reason, the murders are
named the "Bruce Lee Virus". Kyung-rok, the
bassist for the Crying Nut, decides to become a detective
to solve this mystery. On his quest to solve this case,
Kyung-rok runs into many strange and bizarre characters
that lead him on a crazy adventure...... In other words,
the crew of Crying Nut involve themselves in a slew
of silly hijinx that go nowhere.
Review: Looking For Bruce Lee has almost
nothing to do with Bruce Lee. What little there is
to Bruce Lee is merely just shots of his face popping
up here and there once in awhile. Well, that’s
what I’d like to think of the movie at least,
but there’s actually an underlying plot which
involves a series of deaths. Each body that is discovered
is found with a picture of the man himself. Kyung
Rok decides to find out what’s going on, and
this connects Bruce Lee to this movie’s synopsis
in a way. The lead of Crying Nut somehow ties with
Bruce Lee in his journey to stardom. In one part of
the movie, the lead assumes the role that Bruce Lee
played in Enter the Dragon in the mirror scene. He’s
told that he will become great in his vision. Uh,
yeah buddy… And that’s what leads to a
concert finale with a bunch of fans in a stadium.
The whole movie is just a bunch of silly situations
one after another. Most of the segments are the Crying
Nut crew doing some stupid things that get them caught,
and we get to follow them running away from the hand
of the law. The first one is amusing, but after awhile,
it just turns into an overdone joke. Other than that,
we have a guy in a trench coat who pretends to be
a public flasher, which results in a monk of some
sort chasing him out of nowhere. The majority of what
happens in this movie doesn’t seem to go anywhere,
and seem to just occur for no reason at all…
even though some of them do connect to the underlying
Bruce Lee virus story. Aside from that, this movie
has no point other than to show that these guys are
idiots. I can’t even begin to figure out how
or why the idea for this movie was passed by the producers.
Maybe it was just to cash in on Crying Nut’s
newfound fame, or something entirely different, but
the movie’s just one big waste of time.
Another point of the movie is their performances.
These range from a small underground club to arena
concerts. These are the only events that break up
the boredom and tediousness of the movie. Yet, I can’t
seem to get into their music. Being a punk/alternative
music fan, I could’ve enjoyed the music, but
I just didn’t. So what could have otherwise
been a redeeming factor for the movie, Looking For
Bruce Lee is just a big pile of crap that should definitely
be overlooked.
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DVD
[ NTSC, All Region
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The
DVD is crap. Video is 1.85:1 letterbox widescreen.
Quality is terrible. Much of the film looks like a
red filter has been placed over the lens, and grain
is present in large amounts. Audio is a standard Dolby
Digital 2.0 and sounds muffled for the duration of
the movie. Extras are as follows.
About
Film
1) Synopsis
2) Director's Note
3) About Crying Nut
- Puchon Fantastic Film
1) Festival Cine Rock Concert
- NG Collection
- Making Film
- Theatrical Trailer
- Music Video
- Still Gallery
- Original Poster
- Wall Paper : Only DVD-ROM
The
second disc is an audio CD of a select few songs from
Crying Nut.
Reviewed
by Daniel Nguyen
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0.5 |
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