Bruce Li Blind Fist Of Bruce

Starring Bruce Li, Simon Yuen, Chiang Tao, Tiger Yuen, Lau Chan

Fight Choreography by Lui Han Ming

Directed by Kam Bo

After Bruce Lee died, Hong Kong cinema scrambled to supplant him, and past that I do mean literally replacing Bruce, with a succession of actors who looked a little–or a lot–like Bruce, and could portray his attitude. They were never chosen to play a character, they were chosen because they could imitate Bruce. Bruce Li was 1 of the best of these, and perhaps his career would have been better if he had been able to forge his own identity, instead of beingness known forevermore as a Bruce Lee clone. Movies like the Blind Fist of Bruce shows that he could have been and so much more.

The picture show opens as a group of baddies show upwardly at the police headquarters of a small town and insist on speaking to the Captain, and of course his officers reject, and proceed to have an butt-kicking from a group of guys who must take the phrase "fresh off a cop's ass" tattooed on their forearms. The Captain reveals himself, and starts jacking up the gang before their leader Wei (Tao), who beats the Helm to death. This offset fight is fairly boring and plodding, and I tin can but imagine it was done to make Bruce Li'southward fights look ameliorate, but that's hardly needed.

Meanwhile, ii thugs show up to the local banking concern owned by Yeh Chen(Li), a good and off-white banker who shows upwardly with his 2 teachers to teach the thugs a lesson. When his teachers appear, if you lot scout enough kung-fu films then you know Yeh's in deep shit. Whenever y'all see Lau Chan in a film you know what's gonna happen, and if yous can't place the face hither information technology is:

Y'all now know two things: a) this asshole volition betray the hero at some betoken, and b) he'll get killed (usually by a boot or punch to the chest) and explode a blood capsule in his mouth, a really big one, and bleed profusely from the rima oris as he dies, which he does to perfection in pretty much every film you always come across him in.

Okay, back to the film. Yeh does beat the two thugs, and we observe out later that his two teachers are fake kung fu masters who pay to have random guys get their asses kicked by Yeh so they look like they are teaching him the good stuff, when he isn't learning shit. (You may recognize this equally being a similar plot to Yuen Biao's Prodigal Son) So of class the baddies show up, and when Yeh tries to fight them they beat the tar out of him, and then the gang proceeds to take over the entire town. While preparation in more simulated kung-fu, because Yeh is both smart and dense at the same time, sees one of his teachers getting schooled by a bullheaded sometime beggar (Simon Yuen) but doesn't yet encounter this as proof that his teachers aren't for shit. We then see the beggar defending his niece from Wei's two douchy sidekicks, and the bullheaded ragamuffin beats them upward in a fun fight, even though nosotros know that the person fighting is a stuntman and non Simon Yuen, who is the begetter of legendary fight choreographer Yuen Woo Ping. Simon sells everything in the scenes right before and later on a fight, and that'south good enough. At that place'due south a reason why he'due south the quintessential Kung-Fu teacher in so many martial arts films.

Yeh goes back to get a rematch with Wei, and this time gets beaten so desperately he is forced to sign his bank over to the gang, and fires his two teachers, who then get to Wei to join his gang (Lau Chan=expose. Cheque.) Yeh goes to the beggar and is able to convince him to teach him kung-fu, and he does so, but little does Yeh know that the real boss of the gang, Tiger, has a history with the bullheaded beggar, then the stage is set up for revenge left, revenge correct, everywhere revenge!

This is what I phone call a claret capsule kung-fu pic, meaning that the fights can continue for days and you lot know when someone is actually dead for skilful when they bite down on that blood capsule and the blood free flows from their rima oris. That'southward like an indicator that yes, that dude is finally expressionless. The flick starts out slowly and doesn't really get going until the ragamuffin shows up, but that'south to exist expected since Bruce Li's first few fights are fought as a guy who is learning fake kung-fu. One time he does learn from the beggar the fights go pretty practiced. Non equally brutal as a Bruce Lee moving-picture show but not that graceful, the fights do march to the crush of its own drummer cheers to Lui Han Ming's fight choreography, which seems to have unlike tempos for each fight, and gives each of them a satisfying stop, which is something considering that in that location are a ton of fights in this picture show!

Bruce Li shows off not bad skills, and while he looks similar Bruce and acts similar him, Li doesn't really try to fight like him, except in moments here and at that place. Chaing Tao, a veteran of many kung-fu films, does a great chore equally the Tiger' second in command Wei, as does Tiger Yueng, who shows off some great forms as the primary baddie.

Blind Fist of Bruce is a satisfying revenge film where anybody get's what'due south coming to them, and when the bad guy is killed they roll credits. No aftermath stuff, he dies, and information technology's washed. Fast food Kung-Fu at it's best.

(On a calibration of 1-10, ten beingness the best)

CHOREOGRAPHY: (viii) Due to the story constraints the fights are stilted in the beginning, just hits everything correct the residual of the mode.

STUNTWORK:(8) Simon Yuen's stuntman deserves a heighten, and everyone does a groovy job. Lau Chan is money in the depository financial institution. Viva fake blood capsules!

STAR Ability: (viii) Bruce Li's appreciation is starting to abound as his old films are revisited. In many ways Li carried the torch until the next wave of martial arts stars.

Terminal GRADE: (viii) Bruce Li was never able to escape beingness seen as nothing more than the all-time of the Bruce Lee clones, just he has fabricated few decent martial arts films that show that he could accept been and so much more.

Source: https://kiaikick.com/2011/03/14/review-blind-fist-of-bruce-1979/

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