A genially scattershot mockumentary.
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10/05/07
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
Top CriticLin is simply trying to stretch a modest idea too far.
10/05/07
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 CriticHas 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
Ragged, spotty but shrewdly conceived.
10/04/07
Top CriticA lot of the gags fall thuddingly flat, but a fair number of them also land squarely on target.
10/04/07
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 CriticHard 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
A pleasant surprise with a high concept premise that allows for funnier situations and characters than some of Christopher Guest's last few offerings.
10/02/07
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
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.
02/06/07
Equal parts affectionately silly and insightfully satirical.
01/26/07
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