It’s a classic showdown, with the 5’8” star proving to his 7’2” opponent that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. While the entire pagoda fight is great, the highlight of the movie is Lee’s duel with Hakim, a hulking giant of a martial arts star played to perfection by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Here he dons the famous yellow tracksuit that would later inspire the wardrobe in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Regardless of the questionable ethics involved in the film’s completion, the scenes that Lee did film are fantastic and some of the most iconic in his career. Whether it was anyone’s right to finish Lee’s movie without him is one thing, but including actual footage from Lee’s funeral is just plain old bad taste. It’s the result of a low-budget cobbling together of a 1972 film that Lee left unfinished when he died, and a wrap-around story featuring not-so-convincing stand-ins for the deceased star.
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