Review of The Dragon Dies Hard

This particular "Bruceploitation" effort has an admittedly promising premise, with the ghost of the recently deceased Bruce Lee getting a martial arts expert to find out who killed him. Despite this loopy idea, the movie for the most part is a disappointment. Though the hero tracks down who killed Bruce Lee, for some reason it is never revealed WHY the bad guys did this! And the journey along the way is pretty dull, with one of the slowest murder investigations ever depicted in a motion picture. Facts like those will probably not deter action fans, who will simply be asking for fight scenes. Well, there are certainly a lot of fight scenes, but none of them have any particular spark or exceptional choreography. As for unintentional humor, the only laugh the movie manages to generate is when at one point it steals music from the Alfred Hitchcock movie "North by Northwest". It's movies like this that for several years killed the kung fu movie craze in the 1970s.