BRUCE LE VS. NINJA


Bruce Le Vs Ninja


Year: 1982
AKA: Ninja Vs Bruce Lee (Concord of Bruce)
Super Starring: Bruce Le
Guest Starring: Lo Lieh, Kong Do, James Nam, Christina Cheung
Directed by: Joesph Velasco
Running time: 79 minutes



I won't even bother to give you a synopsis because this movie is patched together from the previous Bruce Le films MY NAME CALLED BRUCE, ENTER THE GAME OF DEATH, and RETURN OF BRUCE. The story doesn't exactly "flow" and gets confusing. Bruce Le is Bruce Wong, a HK cop after Japanese crook Matsuda because he has some antique or something. As the movie goes along they refer to Matsuda every now and then so we know who is the big bad guy and meanwhile Bruce Le fights lots of guys. Matsuda shows up at the end and they fight with Bruce winning. Don't look so shocked!

Bruce goes from HK to Korea to Phillipines and then back to Korea all because some guy has a antique vase? Seems like a waste of time and manpower, but then there would be no movie! Seriously though, if you're going to edit together some movies to make a new movie, why not edit together good movies? At least edit together the best scenes! Instead we're treated to a confusing menagerie of Bruce Le scenes from his lamer movies. A major disappointment was the box art feature Bruce Le holding a machine gun, and the scene isn't in the movie! The title is a load of crap too. Where are the freakin' ninjas? I never saw any, somebody referred to "ninjas", but just some crappy foreigners showed up. No Bruce with assault rifle, and no ninjas, there is no way this movie can be decent.

There were a couple good scenes. One takes place in a bar and Bruce asks the bartender for a bottle of whiskey. The guy returns and says "Here's your wine." Say what?! Didn't he just ask for whiskey? Man, that guy is so fired. Doesn't matter because some guy comes over and dumps it on Bruce's head. It's on now!! Kong Do has a great line of dialogue too, "What you say is crap!" I guess I should mention Christina Cheung who plays a Korean cop. She's not bad to look at and looks pretty cool in her black leather jacket. She does come off kinda sketchy riding a motorbike, especially when she went through the creek. She was wobbling around, I thought she was gonna bite it. Haha, now that would've made the movie better.

This is an excert from an e-mail I got about BRUCE LE VS. NINJA:

PLEEASSSE!!!! at all cost stay away from this movie. all it is, is three bruce le movies edited from each other Enter the Game of Death, My name called Bruce, Return of Bruce. and its dubbed differently to make you think its another movie. this is something i could have done with 2 VCR'S. the producers who made this S@#$ needs to get the F@#$ beat out of him and thensome. just for making a film to waste a presious 90 minutes. so Keith.. OR whoever please post this review up as a warning.
Unfortunately for me I received this e-mail a day after I ordered the movie! Curses. For next time, please anyone and everyone please e-mail me BEFORE I order a crappy movie. Thanks.

I just realized something watching the end fight with Christina Cheung vs Kong Do...it must be hard to kick with bell bottoms! I don't know why I never thought of this sooner, I mean I've seen too many 70s kung fu movies with too many bell bottoms. You think the extra fabric flapping around would cause some serious wind resistance and making your kicks slower. Unless...that's the point! The increased drag acts like as a training tool to strengthen your legs. Wow, ingenious! Who would've thought bell bottoms actually served a purpose. They could also act just like the red tassel on the end of a Chinese spear. The flapping fabric of the bell bottoms would work to confuse and disorient the enemy just like the tassel of the spear, as told by Gordon Liu in Shaolin Challenges Ninja.

Don't watch this one unless you're bored and/or really really like Bruce Le. If you want to see MY NAME CALLED BRUCE, then watch MY NAME CALLED BRUCE, don't watch BRUCE LE VS. NINJA, same for RETURN OF BRUCE and ENTER THE GAME OF DEATH. I can do something much better with a couple VCRs and I could probably make it longer than 79 minutes too. Then again, you don't want to watch something like this for any longer than you have to, 79 minutes is pushing it already. Go tidy the house instead, you'll be glad you did.

"Reviewed" by Keith




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