- Year: 1975
- AKA: Bruce Lee Vs Supermen
- Starring: Bruce Li, Lung Fei, Shan Mao, Lu Lu Wen, Ross Yeung
- Directed by: C. C. Wu
The movie starts with Bruce Li, who plays Carter, in a car chasing some bad guys and he's dressed as Kato. Why is he dressed as Kato? Hey, this is a Bruceploitation film remember. The bad guys of the film all plan to get Dr. Ting's secret formula that can make food from oil. What a dumbass formula! Oil is a non-replenishable fossil fuel, why not create a useful formula that can make oil from food. If we need oil, we can just grow more food. Anyway, the bad guys follow Dr. Ting around and even peep at his daughter Alice as she is swimming nude, so you know they're bad! The bad guys kidnap Alice and Dr. Ting, but luckily Carter and his buddy happen to see the whole thing and follow the bad guys in a taxi. What follows is a poorly shot, executed, and edited car chase sequence. It's way too long and boring as hell. Eventually they manage to get ahead of the bad guys and lie down on the road. When the bad guys stop to investigate, Carter and friend jump into action and what follows in a boring overly long fight, but at least the pair win and free Dr. Ting and Alice. Next we have a musical montage of Carter and Alice doing all sorts of lovely things like walking, sitting, hold hands, and eating sweets...oh those crazy kids.
The bad guys call in some help in the form of a sharpshooter. After taking some potshots at Carter, Carter tracks him down to a rooftop. The shooter is already down on the street making his get away, so Carter tosses a rope down the side and the building and repels down it. On the street Carter follows the shooter in another long boring chase sequence. Carter finally catches up to the shooter on the top floor of a builing that's under construction. After kicking his ass Carter holds the shooter up to the edge of the building threatening to drop him. Carter should've been a bit more careful as the shooter ends up losing his balance and falling off before he can say anything.
With the sharpshooter dead, the bad guys call in the one and only Superman played by Lung Fei and his Supermen. Hiring Superman isn't cheap though, his fee is $100,000 cash, 10 nice girls, and a truck full of booze. Hey, you get what you pay for. Carter and his buddy having a drink in a bar when the slutty Eve picks up the studly Carter and the two go back to his place. While Carter and Eve do the nasty the bad guys kidnap Dr. Ting. Alice tracks down Bruce's buddy and tells him her father has been kidnapped. Alice asks where Carter is and what he's doing. Bruce's buddy replies, "...uh he's practicing kung fu." But I thought he was just doing it with Eve? Alice arrives at Carter's place and walks in on Carter and Alice half dressed. Alice walks up and slaps Eve starting a hair pulling, shirt ripping, face slapping cat fight. Carter, his friend, and Alice(with ice pack on her bruised face) sit around waiting from a call from the kidnappers. The bad guys need to try and get Dr. Ting to sign some papers and use the psychedelic spotlight on him which just aggravates his medical condition. The baddies call up Alice and ask to bring the medicine to them. Bruce goes undercover as a rickshaw puller and takes Alice to the pick up spot. Alice gets in the car with the bad guys as Bruce follows along behind on foot. Oh damn, a chase sequence with the bad guys in a car and Bruce on foot, this is really going to be long and boring. The director must've learned his mistake from the previously long boring chases sequences and keeps this one short.
Carter and Alice rescue Dr. Ting and Carter's friend helps by fending off rifle wielding baddies with his sling shot. Carter takes off in the ricksaw with Dr. Ting. Carter is attacked by the Supermen who are dressed in black tights. The use all sorts of tricks against him like metal frisbees, ropes and lots of flipping around. Superman shows up himself to incapcitate Carter. Back at the bad guy's mansion a fat drunk white guy is trying to get with a tied up Alic. Meanwhile in another room Carter escapes and all hell breaks loose! Carter's friend who was somewhere shows up and people are fighting all over the place. Dr. Ting is caught(again) and the Green Hornet(some skinny wussy white guy) follows them. Carter fights with Superman who uses studded wrist band, a nunchuka and a knife in the fight. Luckily some disgruntled Supermen aid Carter in his fight with Superman. After pulling a knife from his leg, Carter gives it back to Superman by sticking it in his gut. It's not kryptonite, but did just as good of a job. The big boss is about to get away with Dr. Ting when the driver of the car is revealed to be Eve, a secret police agent. Whoa!! Green Hornet and Carter show up wearing their red pajama super hero costumes...the end. Thank you.
Did any of that make any sense? I watched the movie and wrote this review and I'm not sure I understand it. Carl Jones says Bruce Lee Against Supermen says is Bruce Li's worst film of his career, and I'm inclined to agree with him. The fighting is weak, slow, poorly choreographed/edited/shot and even performed. Several so called action sequences are tedious and instead of being exciting just end up putting you to sleep. Stuff happens for no apprent reason and the story doesn't even make much sense. Bruce Li is fighting Lung Fei when suddenly he's in a car with the Green Hornet in the next scene. Some cuts make no sense at all. Why does Bruce Li wear a Kato outfit at the beginning and then later wears a red Green Hornet costume? Lung Fei's costume is almost as bad as the Green Hornet costumes as he wears black tights and a white pillow case cape. The movie is slow paced, dull and doesn't pick up until the last half hour where most of the action takes place. Well, a definite low point(very low) in Bruce Li's filmography and I would suggest you watch just about anything else starring Bruce Li unless you are a big Li fan. My favorite scene would have to be the Alice and Eve catfight, but other than that I can't recommend anything else.
"Reviewed" by Keith
Bruceploitation
