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| Jim Kelly in Al Adamson's DEATH DIMENSION Year: 1978 Rating: *** |
Any movie featuring Jim Kelly is an unrelated homage to ENTER THE DRAGON, the Bruce Lee classic in which he's the cocky token-black karate champ... and DEATH DIMENSION is the second directed by b-movie icon Al Adamson that's trying to be a James Bond flick...
Here, following BLACK SAMURAI, the original German title Der Einzelkämpfer translates to THE LONE FIGHTER, partly true since Kelly does most of the action against two Bond franchise legends...
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| Harold Sakata and Myron Lee in DEATH DIMENSION |
Beginning with main heavy Harold Sakata, Odd-Job the assassin from GOLDFINGER who yearns to take over the world with a freeze-bomb while peripheral cop George Lazenby's connected to both Bond and Bruce Lee... he was 007 in HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE and was about to star in Lee's DRAGON followup, that never happened...
Lazenby's sporadically at Kelly's side... till he isn't... but the true sidekick is stuntman Myron Lee, who was billed as Myron Bruce Lee, taking part in various karate fights, filmed in the usual stagnant camera style of Adamson, mostly in rural desert locales (including some Las Vegas shots)...
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Original Title for Al Adamson's DEATH DIMENSION
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Overall, for such a noticeably low-budget exploitation vehicle, there are nice moments and effective side-characters, like Patch Mackenzie, a McGuffin beauty with an implanted microchip everyone's after; Donovan's gorgeous real-life-wife Linda Lawrence as Sakata's Mad Magazine reading moll; a sultry madame played by veteran MIGHTY JOE YOUNG actress Terry Moore; Kelly's sexy black girlfriend April Sommers...
And best yet, black stuntman Bob Minor, more an equal match for Kelly than his Asian boss, who fitfully spouts expository monologues (mostly to greedy bomb-buyer Aldo Ray) than getting his hands dirty.... then again, as Sakata proved before and Minor proves here, primary henchmen are usually the most memorable villains.
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| Harold Sakata and George Lazenby in DEATH DIMENSION |
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Jim Kelly and George Lazenby in DEATH DIMENSION
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| George Lazenby in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Bob Minor in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Jim Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Jim Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Bob Minor, Linda Lawrence and Harold Sakata in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Patch Mackenzie in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Patch Mackenzie in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Aldo Ray in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Terry Moore in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Aldo Ray and Harold Sakata in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Linda Lawrence and Harold Sakata in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Linda Lawrence and Harold Sakata in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Jim Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Jim Kelly and Bob Minor in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Harold Sakata in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Harold Sakata and Jim Kelly in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| April Sommers in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Jim Kelly and Myron Bruce Lee in DEATH DIMENSION |
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| Myron Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, April Sommers in DEATH DIMENSION |
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