Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is an actor at the peak of a cinematographic  career in martial arts movies. However, Billy is in conflict with an avaricious mafia that demands heavy payola from his proceeds. When the man objects, a gunman is sent to kill him. A real bullet wounds him in the face on the set of an action sequence. Nearly mortally wounded he manages to survive. But a dead person is more free to move compared to a living person, so Lo decides to simulate a false funeral and to undergo a facial plastic surgery.

Precisely from this point we enter – without realising it – in the mysticism of a horror movie. There is the rage of a revenge from afterlife.

Blow after blow a mysterious figure routs out the entire organisation which counts among its members the man of the stick (Hugh O'Brian) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who will be one of the hardest to defeat). The acting of Gig Young and Colleen Camp – who play the role of the good characters – is also very good.

Bruce Lee leaves us (unfortunately really) in a flashing sparkle of rage and deep feeling.

The movie by Robert Clouse makes one really think. A posthumous movie that wants to complete the last unfinished work of the big martial arts champion, but without any doubt effective compared to many subsequent clones pathetic and badly done.

However, the reflection doesn’t stop here. Yes, of course there is the fact that a movie founded mainly on effects of post-production is exciting and nice to see. All this, thanks to, without any doubt, John Barry excellent music (author of very good sound-tracks: from the '007' movies to 'The Persuaders'), that fully expresses the golden period or the one that I define, nearly on the basis of a physics/mathematics principle, the period of the Two Ls’ (Mystic Light and Individual Liberty) that may be in the ’Easy Rider’ or in the James Bond style (in the latter case the Two Ls' are represented by the mystic seduction of a fascinating world, where one can move freely, and by the earthly omnipotence of the character).

Finally, it can be said that Billy Lo wants to be Bruce Lee. As a matter of fact, in the movie we see the real sequences of the actors’ funeral (with a crowd similar to that of a national mourning). Hence, the movie is about the death of Bruce Lee, fearfully predicting the death of Brandon, his son, which happened in the same way on the set of 'The Crow' twenty years later. In any case it becomes the parable of the loss of Bruce Lee, of the unjustified and unavenged end, of the immortal legend.