Intermittently funny at best, but mostly full of dead air.
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10/26/07
Finishing the Game (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:12
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 5, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: The unexpected death of Bruce Lee, a world-wide phenomenon and established movie star, came at the zenith of his popularity. Having already shot scenes for his upcoming movie GAME OF DEATH, studio... [More]
Starring: Roger Fan, Sung Kang, Meredith Scott Lynn, McCaleb Burnett
Director: Justin Lin
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Reviews for Finishing the Game
... too thin to sustain itself, even at a modest 83 minutes.
10/24/07
There's about five minutes of funny in Finishing the Game, which leaves 83 minutes of "Oh, that same joke again, huh?"
11/01/07
Besmirching Bruce Lee's name like this should be a punishable offense.
10/08/07
What little potential there is ends up squandered within nanoseconds; as both a parody and a polemic, the film is finished before it’s barely begun.
10/06/07
You get the sense that Justin Lin has never even seen Game of Death... I've got to imagine there were some actual lines and scenes from Game of Death that would have been funny in this context.
10/05/07
A faux documentary grounded in ethnicity and mired in absurdity, Finishing the Game is a terrific idea still waiting to be fashioned into a real movie.
10/05/07
Top CriticMisses more comic targets than it hits.
11/08/07
It's a wasted idea.
10/18/07
The search for the next Bruce Lee goes comically awry, but not comically enough, in Finishing the Game, a rice-paper-thin spoof that tries to poke fun at the endangered Hollywood species that is the Asian male actor.
02/07/07
A genially scattershot mockumentary.
10/05/07
Top CriticThis tedious mockumentary isn't even as entertaining as one of Ed Wood's actual films, and once-promising director Justin Lin has some karma to square for fumbling such a sure thing.
11/16/07
[T]here's little intriguing or surprising...
10/25/07
Has little respect for its source, using it only as a reason to watch foolish, untalented actors prove just how foolish and untalented they can be.
10/04/07
Hard as it is to believe that anyone thinks the comic possibilities of polyester arrow collars haven't been thoroughly strip-mined, those are the primary source of ostensible laffs here.
10/02/07
If its critique sometimes lacks grace, it's nonetheless bolstered by a shrewd understanding of the way pop culture exploits minority differences for entertainment purposes.
10/02/07
Finishing The Game doesn't get anywhere that Hollywood Shuffle didn't go to first.
10/05/07
The film completely misses what should have been its real target -- the filming of Game of Death, a martial-arts campfest worthy of Edward D. Wood Jr.
10/03/07
Top CriticWhat exactly he's trying to say about Bruce Lee's fame and impact or the banal reality of genre moviemaking is unclear at best.
11/15/07
The pace is flat, the celebrity cameos go nowhere, and the smugness of Lin's observations of Asian-Americans and Hollywood smothers the comedy.
11/09/07
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