Might aswell return to blogging with a bad taste big bang. Ah ol' Brucesploitation, the exploitation martial arts cinema experience devoted to raping the legacy of Bruce Lee. Now, Clones Of Bruce Lee is special. Why? Three Bruce Lees! Wow. Three fucking CLONES OF BRUCE LEE! Plus a lookalike from thailand, Bruce Thai! I had long ignored this movie, dismissing it as a crude enterprise in psychotronic bilge. Was I ever fucking wrong, yet oh so right.
Now this was presumably filmed in the late 70s and released in 1980 but it resembles a kung fu basher from the mid 70s. Clones to look at is all bare interior sets or makes use of rugged coastal areas or even some Thailand family's back garden for its locations. The fighting itself is kinda rough but is non-stop. All hench men utilise flailing basher moves whilst the leads have more real Lee pastiche with the odd late 70s shape work thrown in. There is a whole lot of fighting going on. In between the fighting it is really insane. Three Bruce Lees are produced from the corpse of Lee by some whacko in a white coat. They are all referred to as Bruce Lee but numbered. One clone, played by Dragon Lee, is sent on a mission to foil a gold smuggling outfit run of a a film studio. Here the film tries to break the fourth wall with real life Lee references but it has all the delicacy of a brick to the head.
The other two clones, one is Bruce Le and some other guy, are sent to Thailand were another mad boffin is making steel men to conquer the world with. These steel men are hilarious, they are just Thai stuntmen in underpants painted silver. When they get hit the soundtrack goes BONG! The way the clones figure out how to beat the steel men is fucking hilarious. HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED! Missions complete, the clones get back together only discover their inventor is a fuit loop and wants to use them for evil means.
The last fifteen minutes are the best bits of the film, it's all martial ats showdowns with mini bosses and laser traps and mind control and some random zombie guy who comes out of nowhere. I have no idea who he was or where he came from! One of the bosses is good ol' Bolo. He flexes his man boobs and throws Dragon Lee around. Woo! There isnt a lot to take apart with Clones Of Bruce Lee. Its enjoyable madness with cackling villains, mad scientists, furious fighting, crash zooms, bad dubbing, pointless random nudity, stolen music and four Bruce Lee lookalikes. Priceless entertainment.
