It seems a bit of a stretch to classify Joseph Velasco's The Clones of Bruce Lee as a Korean movie despite the presence of North Korea's Dragon Lee as this scifi flick's Number One Clone. But considering Dragon's leading man status in the Brucesploitation genre, I'm somewhat obliged to give the movie its due. So here we are. So how does Dragon fare as one of three genetically engineered offspring of the most iconic kung fu fighter ever? I classify him as a decent impersonator who's got the tone all wrong. Watching Dragon in The Clones left me wishing the performer's career had been less beholden to Bruce's onscreen persona. Dragon's more like a precursor of Jackie Chan than Jet Li if you know what I mean.
If you don't then you might be the type who take this particularly plot seriously. You'll accept men bronze simply because they wear bronzer; you'll believe nurses carry wirecutters in their uniforms; you'll mistake Bruce Li (Clone 2) for Bruce Lei (Dragon) for Bruce Lai (Clone 3) for Bruce Thai (Clone's best friend) and assume that any of them could escape alive when battling Enter the Dragon 's Bolo Yeung while wearing a Bruce Lee wig. And if you're that type of person, why are you reading this blog? Probably because you need someone to verify that this film features topless ladies. Brucesploitation is sexploitation, too.
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