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KUNG-PHOOEY Finishing the Game, a mockumentary about the search for an actor to step into Bruce Lee's shoes, makes all the wrong moves
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Limited Release: Oct 05, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 88 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Roger Fan and Dustin Nguyen
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Director Justin Lin had the good idea of making a movie about the search for an actor to replace Bruce Lee after he died, in 1973, partway through the shooting of Game of Death. Lin then had the very bad idea to stage Finishing the Game as a broad mockumentary, full of tiresomely exaggerated, vainly leering actors with names like Breeze Loo and Troy Poon; they make the contestants on your average reality-dating show look droll. The film completely misses what should have been its real target — the filming of Game of Death, a martial-arts campfest worthy of Edward D. Wood Jr.
Posted Oct 03, 2007
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