Image of Bruce Lee (1978)

Storming Attacks

Cast:

Bruce "Quit trying to compare me to Bruce Lee..." Le is Dragon (Special Squad leader)
Lik Cheung is Inspector 'Mustache' Wang
Dana is Donna (Agent Seven)
Ling Wei Chen is Special Squad Car Driver
John Cheung is Steven

What the box says:

Bruce Li is Inspector Wang, an undercover police officer working on a case to break open a stolen jewel and money-laundering ring.

Plot:

In a large city, some police try to talk down a jumper.

Got to keep hiding so people don't make Bruce Lee track suit jokes on me.. The attempt fails when they try to grab the jumper's leg and discover it a prosthetic.

Later, Dragon is working out with the police special squad. The police learn thatcounterfeit US bills are hitting all over the city. The cops start looking around the clubs for any info on the counterfeit money.

The cops brief the top agents about the main counterfeiting gang. Kimura(head of the gang), Steven(son), Donna(Kimura's partner's daughter)...

Let the trailing montage ensue before the Kung Fu fight... Cops track the gang who evade them.

The counterfeiting gang discuss their business. Later, Donna heads to her hotel room and discovers a bug.

Large Pizza with no anchovies...

Still don't understand why anyone thinks that Men Without Hats isn't the greatest band of all..

Training kata ensues.

Steven wants Donna to help him steal the plates and supply the paper for counterfeiting and take over the gang.

At a Kung Fu studio, cop versus Steven and the students. However, Steven gets away.

Later, a gang catches up to Steven let the Kung Fu fight ensue. Kimura wants the plates.

Donna heads out to the deal at a monastery. Kimura grabs Donna. The cops chase Kimura. However, he escapes.

Dragon and Wang break into Kimura's main estate. Let the Kung Fu fight ensue...

The gang manage to overpower the cops and tie them up to eliminate them. They prepare to gas the cops and while the cops try to break free. Donna frees them. It turns out that Donna is actually an Interpol agent impersonating the real Donna.

The cops and Donna go after the plates and the gang. They fight Kimura, Steven, and the rest of the gang. They catch the counterfeit plates afterwards.

At the airport, Wang and Dragon see Donna leave.

What I say:

Brucesploitation....After Bruce Lee's death in the 1970s, A number of producers and directors took a 1970s martial arts movies and had Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Dragon "Dragon Lee Vs the 5 Brothers" Lee, or others and let them Kung Fu even Sammo Hung had a movie, Enter the Fat Dragon. Well, tacking "Bruce Lee" into the title gave us a title to remember, Image of Bruce Lee. Plenty of these movies are mainly remembered because of the "Bruce Lee." Just on my site, I've seen Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave and Bruce Lee the Invincible. The title is more of what draws people to this movie especially with it being public domain and on so many various cheap DVD sets.

The Brucesploitation typically even mentions Bruce Lee as an expert martial artist in these movies: Kung Fu Fever or had a secret style of martial arts the hero must learn or keep the villain from learning. In this movie, "Bruce Lee" is only mentioned as a movie star and martial artist. However, that isn't just the only type of Brucesploitation movies. A number of movies with a little real footage of Bruce Lee had the pseudo-documentary vibe: Bruce Lee: the Man, the Myth, Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, Fists of Bruce Lee, and Real Bruce Lee.

Take any episode of C.H.I.P.S, and it'll have be Shakespeare compared to the plot in a 1970s Kung Fu movie with stolen diamonds and counterfeit bills breaking a gang up. To be fair, Kung Fu movies aren't known for mind-blowing storylines or excellent fight choregraphy... I lost count of the number of Kung Fu fights throughout the movie. At least, 7 from what I counted in my notes. So roughly average every 5 or 6 minutes, there's going to be a fight. It's a shame that there not the uber-stylized fight choregraphy or even the Jackie Chan style from the late 1970s. The dubbing in this movie is just above the Godzilla-Kaiju 1960 movies.

Quotable Dialogue
"What's wrong with the Chief, there? He looks mad..."
"He likes Kung Fu, and he's good."
"Hey, that's a john!!!"
"Do you have a warrant?"
"You ought to be in the movies. You look exactly like Bruce Lee."
"Inform Chang Li, Donna's at the Typhoid Monastery."
Morals of the Story
Police wear yellow track suits for indecreteness.
Sub-compact cars must be 4 doors.
Martial artists creates whooshing noises from their arms.
Coins can be thrown fast enough to pierce through human skin.
Daisy Duke shorts were very popular in 1970s Hong Kong.
It's easy to kick down 10 feet tall cement blocks.