Finishing the Game

[aelward]

After watching some of the horrid Samurai Girl, I was so happy to see Justin Lin's "Finishing the Game." The premise is that after Bruce Lee died, the producer went on a search to find someone to take over his role. He hires his inexperienced son as director.

The ensuring search is hilarious, and features some of the biggest names in AA cinema:

Roger Fan (from Better Luck Tomorrow) does a brilliant job of imitating Bruce Lee as the character Breeze Lu.

Sung Kang (from BTL, F&F3, etc) is the inexperienced wanna be actor.

Leonardo Nam makes a brief appearance as a spoiled actor from New Zealand.

Dustin Nguyen plays a washed up actor.

George Takei plays the voice of one of the villains.

MC Hammer (OK, not really AA actor) makes a great appearance as an agent.

I highly highly recommend this movie.

[nskripchun]

How'd you see it? DVD Rental? Theater? BitTorrent?

[aelward]

I got it through Netflix.

[doppelganger]

I'm really suprised more people didn't like this film. The comic timing by the actors and by the director was hilarious. The mockumentary does a pretty good job of critiquing Hollywood while being funny. I think some people just didn't get this film, because: 1) they didn't grow up in the 1970's watching Bruce Lee films and cheesy knock-offs 2) most people just don't the see the racism in Hollywood casting, so most viewers will wonder "what the hell is this movie alluding too?" I think you'll enjoy this if you're an Asian American dude who grew up in the 1970's, watched Kung Fu theater and took Asian American Studies in college. The perfect film for Fighting 44 members.

[kwak76]

They have this on blockbuster. I rented it out and will see it later tonight.

[kwak76]

Saw it and yes some of the jokes will get lost on main stream audience. I imagine if a white person saw this they would not get some of the jokes.

Outside of that is was OK movie.

[S-Dynamo]

I'm really suprised more people didn't like this film. The comic timing by the actors and by the director was hilarious. The mockumentary does a pretty good job of critiquing Hollywood while being funny. I think some people just didn't get this film, because: 1) they didn't grow up in the 1970's watching Bruce Lee films and cheesy knock-offs 2) most people just don't the see the racism in Hollywood casting, so most viewers will wonder "what the hell is this movie alluding too?" I think you'll enjoy this if you're an Asian American dude who grew up in the 1970's, watched Kung Fu theater and took Asian American Studies in college. The perfect film for Fighting 44 members.

I saw and loved this film, one of the best comedies in general I have ever seen. I really loved how they made Leonardo Nam or was it Aaroon Yoo came in and made a cameo as a huge star, that shit made me laugh for some reason.