Fist Of Fury: Jackie Chan to replace Bruce Lee

    Following the death of Bruce Lee, film producers paid homage to his legend by doing their damndest to make a fast buck on the most famous name in kung fu. Lookalikes, name-alikes and soundalikes all appeared with the law of diminishing returns being proven by the rotten films and actors that had but a threadbare connection to Bruce Lee.

    Lee Roy Lung even donned the famous yellow-and-black jumpsuit to star in The Bruce Lee Story, with Lee Roy being cast as Bruce Lee for a biopic but also getting to star in the film-within-a-film that Bruce Lee would have made.

    New Fist Of Fury is fairly entertaining but largely because the clowning around that normally comes with Jackie Chan is restrained and, instead, he's an increasingly serious martial artist, even ruthless as the film ends. He's no match for Bruce Lee in Fist Of Fury but, then again, this seriousness really isn't his style.

    Indeed, it's fair to say that he even looks a little uncomfortable in some of the dramatic scenes and though she tries hard, Nora Miao cannot carry the film on her own. However, with some good fight scenes, particularly one near the film's end, there is some value in it if a collection of Jackie Chan films is feeling incomplete without it. However, with this being much shorter than the two-hour original cut of New Fist Of Fury, you would be paying much for an incomplete version of the film.