Aç Kartallar (Hungry Eagles) was directed and written by Çetin Inanç, the man who also brought us Kara Simsek, Kizil maske, Vahsi Kan and 150 or so other films from 1967 to 2002. He’s best known in America for Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) which is also called Turkish Star Wars.

Nihat Yigit plays our stand-in for Bruce Lee, as this is Brucesploitation of the highest order. He was a huge fan of Lee, taking up martial arts after the star’s death in 1973. He fought in karate tournaments all over Europe before Inanc discovered him and cast him as a villain opposite his greatest star, Cuneyt Arkin.

This has the most basic of all martial arts plots: When their martial arts master is murdered by a rival clan, that man’s top three students vow to get revenge.

Inanc can’t help but make his fight scenes work harder than anyone else’s and by that, I mean he speeds them up to Benny Hill on amphetamines level. There’s something he does that I’ve never seen in another director’s style: you feel like you are in the middle of the fights, as if your neck snaps with the punches. They can be exhausting and I mean that in the best sense of the word.

Beyond seeing a Turkish Bruce Lee, this also proves that Turkish filmmakers care about copyright about as much as Godfrey Ho. This has music from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Enter the Dragon and, perhaps most incredibly, Suspiria.

Nearly every country in the world has created their own Bruce Lee. Yes, it took Turkey way longer than nearly every other place in the world, but let’s give them credit for this, a movie where a man throws what appears to be actual dynamite at other people while the camera keeps rolling.