Finishing the Game
Template:More citations needed Template:Use American English Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Finishing the Game is a 2007 mockumentary film directed by Justin Lin focusing on Bruce Lee's final movie Game of Death (1972), which was unfinished at the time of his death.[1][2] Shot in 18 days,[3] Finishing the Game comically satirizes the 1972 productionScript error: No such module "Unsubst".[4][5][6]—which used body doubles and clips from other Lee movies[1]—and addresses racial stereotypes in the Asian community.[7]
Its world premiere took place at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it was an Official Selection.[8] It was also selected as the opening night film at the 25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.[9]
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Cast
- McCaleb Burnett as Tarrick Tyler
- Monique Gabriela Curnen
- Roger Fan as Breeze Loo
- Sung Kang as Colgate "Cole" Kim
- Mousa Kraish as Raja
- Meredith Scott Lynn as Eloise
- Dustin Nguyen as Troy Poon
- James Franco as Dean Silo
- MC Hammer as Roy Thunder
- Ron Jeremy as Peter Dowd
- Brian Tee as Mac Chang
- Leonardo Nam as Eli
- George Takei as Man in Black
- SuChin Pak as Connie Popavich-Mosimoto
- Bella Thorne as Sue
- Sam Bottoms as Martey Kurtainbaum
- Jake Sandvig as Ronney Kurtainbaum
- Michael Shamus Wiles as Officer Williams
- Nathan Jung as Bob
- Wilmer Calderon as Cesar (deleted scenes only)
- Cassidy Freeman as Shirley
- Joseph McQueen as Leroy/Earl
- David Collard as Victor
- Jim Parrack as Jerry
Reception
Finishing the Game received mostly negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 34% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site's consensus reads, "Though Justin Lin's premise is precocious enough, the sight gags and comic timing are tired in this mockumentary about Asian typecasting in the 1970s."[10] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 46 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[11]
References
External links
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- ↑ Lee died having shot only 40 minutes of the fight scenes, and so the film was completed to include just 12 minutes of Lee's fighting, using Bruce Lee body doubles, and "clips snatched from previous films, even clips from Lee’s own Hong Kong funeral." Robert Ito of The New York Times describes the finished product, "which includes about 12 minutes of Lee’s original fight scenes" as "grotesque." See Ito, "50 Guys...", op. cit.
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- ↑ Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter: "Lin and co-writer Josh Diamond re-envision this misguided moviemaking process in ‘Finishing the Game,’ using a fictional documentary about the casting of ‘Game of Death’ to send-up the many pitfalls of studio filmmaking and the foibles of the various professionals involved. At the same time, they good-naturedly confront issues of racism and the stereotyping of Asian-American actors to question whether the bad old days are really so far in the past." Lowe, "Finishing the Game", op. cit.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". 126. "The two operative functions of fake documentary—satire and parody—at once address the unique concerns of the history of Asian American independent film and video. The fact that Finishing the Game and American Zombie parody both the documentary form, ubiquitous in the genre, and ethnic identity—one of the genre's central concerns—shows the fake documentary to be ideal in its ability to comment on both the world (satire) and texts (parody). The fake documentary, as per [Alexandra] Juhasz's definition, engages both parody and satire—it's about form as well as about the 'world.' Since Asian American film and video has been known as a serious genre concerned with the moral and social order, Finishing the Game satirizes this seriousness and sense of superiority with the treatment of the relatively trivial world of narcissistic Hollywood wannabes."
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