First off there's no character in this kung-fu movie named Bruce or Bill. Obviously they're referring to the actor's names of Bruce Le and Bill Louie even though those aren't their real Chinese names. Bill Louie is a particularly stupid-ass alias since it sounds a lot like Balooey when spoken out loud and that doesn't really make me think of a tough martial arts master but more of bumbling doofus. The Bruce Lee-rip-off character here, Bruce Le, acts like a complete dick through almost all of the movie. This seems like a bad choice to portray one of your main heroes as an ass-hat but OK. Also he has a pet bird that he travels around with which is another thing that makes me not think of a tough street-fighting ass-kicker. They do start out fighting before having a change of heart and joining forces so at least the title didn't lie to me.
The movie itself starts out with a guy getting his hand chopped off and from their things get pretty generic with the mob looking for some keys to a treasure chest or something with just a sprinkling of oddball elements thrown in to keep it from being a total snoozefest. The main white-guy villain has a ridiculous painted-on mustache, there's some hatchet-fu on top off a moving train, our heroes are tied to train tracks like they're damsles in distress in a 1920's serial and there's lots of chopsockey. There's way better more over-the-top Bruce Lee-wanabee flicks than this, like this one here for example, that you should check out first.
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