Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee (2007)

Directed by Justin Lin
Produced by Julie Asato, Justin Lin, Salvador Gatdula, Joan Huang, Jeffrey Gou
Written by Josh Diamond
Starring: Roger Fan, Sung Kang, James Franco, Dustin Nguyen, Ron Jeremy, Bella Thorne, Mousa Kraish
Label: Review, Comedy, Mockumentary, Hollywood
I make this review right after I finished watching the DVD. Since this blog dedicated to new film like it's name, clearly it's a special treatment. While some people are annoyed by the movie. Some people clearly love Finishing The Game, that's why it win Special Jury Prize at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, so do I.



A mockumentary which focuses on Bruce Lee's final movie Game of Death. Lee died prior to finishing the movie, having shot only approximately 12 minutes of film. So, the rest of the film was finished using a Bruce Lee double and a new script.

Finishing the Game set in the wake of Bruce Lee's death, as we now know, old footages of Bruce from previous movies, and stand-ins were used to complete the shooting so that it could still be released and sell to the audiences. Finishing the Game, as a mockumentary looking for the next possible Bruce Lee stand in.

The movie highlight the casting process to finish 'The Game of Death' with a young inexperience director Ronney Kurtainbaum (Jake Sandvig), with his mentor/ assistant Eloise Gazdag (Meredith Scott Lynn). The casting (not tobe confused with the REAL cast) contain Breeze Loo (Roger Fan) the overconfident 'famous' B movie star. Cole Kim (Sun Kang) as a enthusiastic new comer, with his manager/ girl friend Saraghina Rivas (Monique Curnen). Tarrick Tyler (McCaleb Burnett) as a caucasian who think himself half Chinese, and many more.

Surprisingly the movie is fun, with such a cheesy formula, at least I like it much. Some people are annoyed that Finishing the Game is silly and irrellevant. But it satirizes the 'Bruceploitation' after Bruce Lee's Death as silly and irrellevant, so being silly and irrellevant IS the whole idea of this movie. (reviewed by DL/ 2008)