Finishing the Game is an uneven effort...

| May 26, 2020

You can easily tell how great a time everyone is having, and it's infectious.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 28, 2008

This 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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

What exactly he's trying to say about Bruce Lee's fame and impact or the banal reality of genre moviemaking is unclear at best.

| Original Score: C | Nov 15, 2007

The pace is flat, the celebrity cameos go nowhere, and the smugness of Lin's observations of Asian-Americans and Hollywood smothers the comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Misses more comic targets than it hits.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2007

There's about five minutes of funny in Finishing the Game, which leaves 83 minutes of "Oh, that same joke again, huh?"

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 1, 2007

Finishing the Game serves up a kick-ass comedy about a dead martial arts star, starving actors and the Hollywood system.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2007

Intermittently funny at best, but mostly full of dead air.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

The breezy tone and obvious fun being had by the cast make Finishing the Game a slight, low-key cool cinematic essay on identity politics.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2007

[T]here's little intriguing or surprising...

| Oct 25, 2007

... too thin to sustain itself, even at a modest 83 minutes.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2007

A very funny, equal-opportunity broadside that targets Asian stereotyping, and not just by non-Asians.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 19, 2007

The premise was so golden and in front of our noses for so long, it's amazing that is has taken this long for someone to do it. I'm still upset that it wasn't me.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2007

It's a wasted idea.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2007

The main reason that I didn't like Justin Lin's new film Finishing the Game is because I wasn't sure at any time what he was trying to make...

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 9, 2007

Besmirching Bruce Lee's name like this should be a punishable offense.

| Original Score: D | Oct 8, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/6 | Oct 6, 2007

It feels as though everyone involved was having a rollicking good time, and while the film itself is wildly uneven, Lin and company get in a few pointed jabs at Hollywood fatuousness and self-delusion, cultural stereotypes and '70s fashions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2007

Call it a comic documentary, a true-life comedy, or a Hollywood satire, but however you karate chop this one, it's a kicky, clever, highly amusing romp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 5, 2007