Review: After Bruce Lee’s death, a few people decided to use the man’s name to make the big bucks by producing fictional stories and supposed sequel to his now famous movies. The most well known impersonator of Bruce Lee was the Taiwanese actor James Ho Chung Tao, who was called Bruce Li after his appearance as Bruce Lee in this particular movie. Countless of movies featuring a fake Bruce Lee can be found but none of them is apparently as accurate as Bruce Lee – True Story. Well that’s what the packaging says. I don’t have too much trouble believe that it was the most successful movie of is kind but saying that this movie is close to reality is exaggerated.

People who don’t know that much about Bruce true life’s might not have too much problem with the plot but will lead them believing that Bruce Lee only wear Adidas sport suit, had to fight most of the time and trained on very advance training machines. It’s quite obvious from these points that this movie is only a fictional inspiration and not a biography movie. In fact there’s not that much time spends on the development of his personal life, instead most of the time is used to create events and opportunity to show fighting sequences. The filmmakers almost forget that Bruce also had a personal life.

Considered by many to be the best Bruce Lee impersonator, Ho Chung Dao, aka Bruce Li, was indeed not too bad in the main role. Bruce Lee is probably one of the hardest characters to play on screen, as it’s almost impossible to mimic Bruce Lee without looking stupid and laughable. Still, some of the facial expressions, gestures and sounds by Li were a bit too exaggerated and over abused, but I have to agree that Bruce Li was probably the best choice to play the role. As for his body appearance, it’s true that he’s a great Bruce Lee look a like.

His fighting skill is not too bad too. However on a side note, I have to mention that the VideoAsia is Full Screen Pan/Scan, which made the fight scenes look’s much more terrible than what they really are. Most of the fight sequences go from decent quality to mediocre but are generally entertaining. In the movie Bruce always have to defend him and prove to another martial artist, most of the time a Japanese of course, that Kung fu is the best and he’s the best fighter right now. Again, this is total fiction as Bruce never had to fight like this to prove himself. One time he had fought again a Karateka in a community center and also peacefully resolved an argument with a Thai boxer during the shooting of The Big Boss but except these two events, don’t believe the movie. On the other hand I have to agree that the movie would have been pretty boring without those cheap fights.

It’s not a movie for any martial art movie lovers, as its’ pretty evident by is content that this release is strictly aiming at the Bruce Lee fan. A sure catch for any Bruce Lee fan but not to be taken seriously.