Rating: 3
Game Of Death is supposed to be a Bruce Lee film but is in fact a dreary, clumsy ‘action thriller’ that transplants a mere fifteen minutes of Bruce Lee footage taken five years previous into a new story using a hilariously bad Bruce Lee lookalike.
Film aside, the score is strong on melody. The main theme is an energetic one whose driving percussion adds some 70s cheese but the brass lead is a catching one with all the euphoria of Conti’s Rocky and Barry’s own Bond scores. The film’s secondary theme is a well-built romantic love theme. There is variety — a funeral dirge; a song sung by Colleen Camp; and engaging suspense cues with textbook-perfect escalation to pure, driving action. Accusations that this is an emotionally shallow score are deserved, but it is an entertaining, thematically solid listen.