This weird Turkish movie mixes bruceploitation films with the crime thriller formula. Three martial arts heroes rage war with a criminal syndicate and I am sorry I can't give more plot details, because I watched the movie without subtitles. Nevertheless, it's an enjoyable slice of 80s exploitation filmmaking from Turkey and it boasts several training and fighting scenes. The action set pieces include a public square, a ship's deck, a warehouse and a building in flames. Oh, there are also ninja look-alikes plus a woman is thrown off a balcony! As for the good guys, one is obviously a Bruce Lee clone, while the second reminds of Richard Harrison and the third one maybe Chuck Norris. The soundtrack rips off music from Enter The Dragon and...Suspiria, making the result even more surreal. Cheap but enjoyable fun from the director of 'Turkish Star Wars':)
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Turkish Bruce
BandSAboutMovies7 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Nihat Yigit plays our stand-in for Bruce Lee, as this is Brucesploitation of the highest order. He was a huge fan of Lee, taking up martial arts after the star's death in 1973. He fought in karate tournaments all over Europe before Inanc discovered him and cast him as a villain opposite his greatest star, Cuneyt Arkin.
This has the most basic of all martial arts plots: When their martial arts master is murdered by a rival clan, that man's top three students vow to get revenge.
Inanc can't help but make his fight scenes work harder than anyone else's and by that, I mean he speeds them up to Benny Hill on amphetamines level. There's something he does that I've never seen in another director's style: you feel like you are in the middle of the fights, as if your neck snaps with the punches. They can be exhausting and I mean that in the best sense of the word.
Beyond seeing a Turkish Bruce Lee, this also proves that Turkish filmmakers care about copyright about as much as Godfrey Ho. This has music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon and, perhaps most incredibly, Suspiria.
Nearly every country in the world has created their own Bruce Lee. Yes, it took Turkey way longer than nearly every other place in the world, but let's give them credit for this, a movie where a man throws what appears to be actual dynamite at other people while the camera keeps rolling.
This has the most basic of all martial arts plots: When their martial arts master is murdered by a rival clan, that man's top three students vow to get revenge.
Inanc can't help but make his fight scenes work harder than anyone else's and by that, I mean he speeds them up to Benny Hill on amphetamines level. There's something he does that I've never seen in another director's style: you feel like you are in the middle of the fights, as if your neck snaps with the punches. They can be exhausting and I mean that in the best sense of the word.
Beyond seeing a Turkish Bruce Lee, this also proves that Turkish filmmakers care about copyright about as much as Godfrey Ho. This has music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon and, perhaps most incredibly, Suspiria.
Nearly every country in the world has created their own Bruce Lee. Yes, it took Turkey way longer than nearly every other place in the world, but let's give them credit for this, a movie where a man throws what appears to be actual dynamite at other people while the camera keeps rolling.
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