FREE: BRUCE LE'S GREATEST REVENGE w BRUCE LE, KU FENG, MI HSUEH

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VHS MOVIE-UPC 0-84296-05103-8, COLOR, RATED R, 94 MINUTES
Bruce Le's Greatest Revenge is in many respects a remake of Bruce Lee's The Chinese Connection (released as Fist of Fury in Europe). The setting is a China occupied and harassed by the Japanese; I'm sure this film is not a big seller in Japan because the Japanese characters in this film are merciless, greedy monsters. Bruce Le plays a student at a martial arts school, whose Teacher refuses to help budding Chinese revolutionaries learn kung fu in preparation for resisting the Japanese. Bruce, though, is not one to back down from a challenge, court cries of cowardice, or sit idly by while Chinese women are abused. His tendency to beat up a lot of the Japanese men and fighters he meets gets the Japanese hopping mad, brings the Chinese police force into the mix, and eventually sets the stage for your typical Bruce against the whole world ending. The Japanese have a couple of secret weapons on their side, if you can call them that: a European who thinks this is all supposed to be about fencing and a fairly large Mongolian stud. Are these a match for our hero? What do you think?
The martial arts school serves as the setting of one large-scale melee involving just about everyone except Bruce Le. My novice eye was quite impressed by the length and fight choreography of this major skirmish, taking particular delight in watching Teacher's daughter give the men what for. Basically, the final half hour of this film consists of fight scenes; the venue changes as Bruce makes his way past all of Mr. Big's henchmen, but it is nonstop action that had me enthralled. Bruce Le's Greatest Revenge is by far the best and most exciting non-Bruce Lee martial arts film I have seen.