At some point over the last decade—maybe the day after That '70s Show premiered—filling the screen with retro décor, costumes, and hairstyles stopped being funny in and of itself. But apparently no one sent the memo to writer-director Justin Lin, whose mockumentary Finishing The Game draws most of its humor from "check out how ridiculous that afro looks" visual cues. Based very loosely on the real-life attempt to build a feature-length movie around the 12 minutes of footage Bruce Lee shot for The Game Of Death before he died, Finishing The Game follows a group of hopefuls through the casting process to become Lee's replacement. Asian actors, martial artists, and amateurs of all shapes and sizes answer the call, and get processed through a Hollywood system that doesn't know what to do with "yellow types."
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