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Movie Review for Finishing the Game
Movie Review for
Finishing the Game
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31 Reviews total.
Release date: 10/5/2007
Run length: 88 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
Summary:
Shortly after Bruce Lee's death in 1973, a major studio with an unfinished 12-minute action sequence of Bruce Lee decides to create a full-length feature from the vaulted footage. However, in order to make a film without its star, the director must find a replacement for Lee.
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
Fred Topel
of Can Magazine (7/0)
You get the sense that Justin Lin has never even seen Game of Death... I've got to imagine there ...
By
Scott Weinberg
of Cinematical (7/0)
Equal parts affectionately silly and insightfully satirical.
By
Cole Smithey
of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
Besmirching Bruce Lee's name like this should be a punishable offense.
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
It's a wasted idea.
By
Edward Douglas
of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
A pleasant surprise with a high concept premise that allows for funnier situations and characters...
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
The film completely misses what should have been its real target -- the filming of Game of Death,...
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
David Noh
of Film Journal International (7/0)
A lot of the gags fall thuddingly flat, but a fair number of them also land squarely on target.
By
Jeff Wong
of Film Threat (7/0)
The premise was so golden and in front of our noses for so long, it’s amazing that is has taken t...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
[T]here's little intriguing or surprising...
By
Justin Lowe
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
Lin, an experienced documentary-maker, expertly duplicates the narrative and stylistic characteri...
By
Justin Lowe
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
Good-naturedly confront issues of racism and the stereotyping of Asian-American actors to questio...
By
Todd Gilchrist
of IGN Movies (7/0)
The main reason that I didn't like Justin Lin's new film Finishing the Game is because I wasn't s...
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
Beth Accomando
of KPBS.org (7/0)
Finishing the Game serves up a kick-ass comedy about a dead martial arts star, starving actors an...
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (7/0)
Has little respect for its source, using it only as a reason to watch foolish, untalented actors ...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (7/0)
A genially scattershot mockumentary.
By
Jeannette Catsoulis
of New York Times (7/0)
A faux documentary grounded in ethnicity and mired in absurdity, Finishing the Game is a terrific...
By
Noel Murray
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
Finishing The Game doesn't get anywhere that Hollywood Shuffle didn't go to first.
By
Gary Goldstein
of Reel.com (7/0)
Call it a comic documentary, a true-life comedy, or a Hollywood satire, but however you karate ch...
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
The pace is flat, the celebrity cameos go nowhere, and the smugness of Lin's observations of Asia...
By
David Wiegand
of San Francisco Chronicle (6/1)
A very funny, equal-opportunity broadside that targets Asian stereotyping, and not just by non-As...
By
David Wiegand
of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
Lin's direction and pacing are masterful here.
By
Sean Axmaker
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
What exactly he's trying to say about Bruce Lee's fame and impact or the banal reality of genre m...
By
Mark Rahner
of Seattle Times (7/0)
This tedious mockumentary isn't even as entertaining as one of Ed Wood's actual films, and once-p...
By
Nick Schager
of Slant Magazine (7/0)
If its critique sometimes lacks grace, it's nonetheless bolstered by a shrewd understanding of th...
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
David Fear
of Time Out New York (5/2)
What little potential there is ends up squandered within nanoseconds; as both a parody and a pole...
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
It feels as though everyone involved was having a rollicking good time, and while the film itself...
By
Justin Chang
of Variety (7/0)
The search for the next Bruce Lee goes comically awry, but not comically enough, in Finishing the...
By
Nick Pinkerton
of Village Voice (7/0)
Hard as it is to believe that anyone thinks the comic possibilities of polyester arrow collars ha...
By
Wade Major
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
Lin is simply trying to stretch a modest idea too far.
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (3/4) No reference
Misses more comic targets than it hits.
Reviews of Finishing the Game
By
Gene Seymour
of Newsday (3/4) No reference
Ragged, spotty but shrewdly conceived.
Movie Distributors
First Take (IFC) Production Companies
Trailing Johnson Productions Movie Studios
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