Advantages: Excellent cast, great fights and conveys a great deal of realism. Disadvantages: Some fabricated events.
...Bruce Le, Bruce Leung and Dragon Lee. These films were created on the back of various theories behind his death. Officially Bruce Lee, the greatest oriental Martial Arts star of all time, died of a cerebral oedema (brain swelling), as an allergic reaction to a painkiller, however various myths came to light that he had faked his death to go into hiding, or had died of a delayed ninja death touch, or that the painkiller was a poisonous drug that was ... ...awful fight scenes. Dragon the Bruce Lee story came out in 1993 and is far removed from the previous biographical movies that have been made on Bruce. Dragon depicts American-born Bruce as he returns to America following troublesome teenage years and looks to carve out a career for himself. After obtaining a University education, and starting a Kung Fu school, we see the development of Bruce's TV and movie career. However, along the way, we see how ...
Advantages: More plot than expected Disadvantages: Not much action to start with
...you want more detail about the cast, etc, I'd suggest www.imdb.com )
** THE PLOT **
Bruce Lee goes to live with relatives after having sworn an oath not to fight again (but you know that's not going to last long!) and joins some of them in working for a factory producing ice. However, a few of the workers accidentally discover that the factory is not all it seems and is dealing in something far more profitable than ice. When some of the workers ... ...film, but having said that, the plot was stronger than I expected and actually worked quite well.
The action is largely predictable but still engaging. It's not that spectacular for the most part, but there's some much better stuff towards the end (mainly from Lee of course).
Bruce Lee hardly appears at all for the first half of the film (although this does contribute to his character a little) and the majority of the fighting is reserved for the ...
Whilst channel hopping on the old remote the other night i came across "Fist of Fury" on channel five. I was quite supprized to see this classic Bruce Lee film on TV. I had only ever seen it on my DVD set of Bruce Lee or on a video that I onced owned, when they were all the fashion.
So naturaly, being a big fan, I tuned in to watch as i hadnt seen it for a while. What supprized me even more was that it was also uncut!
This in my opinion was the ... ...in as opposed to the others, Which had thier fair share of fighting in, were more structured in thier story lines. The base of the story, like many old chinese films, was of revenge. In this case the revenge was for his teacher. Bruce Lee plays Chen Zhen who single handed takes revenge on the culprits. The enemy is a japanese run school. Chinese v Japanese was a big thing in the old days and is the plot of many chinese films. The fight scenes are ...
Advantages: pretty good martial arts Disadvantages: it lacks Bruce Lee's, choreography
...of his brother. As in Fist of Fury it is all about the Chinese against the Japanese. This film is made in similar style to Game of death 2 as in there is more fighting than anything else. In Fist of Fury 2 Bruce Lee had already been killed before the film started. In fact he was killed at the end of Fist of Fury by the Japanese council. Just as Bruce Lee avenged the death of his teacher, Bruce Li avenges the death of his brother. The film is literally ...
Advantages: Excellent martial arts, from Tung Lung Disadvantages: none
Game of Death 2 Staring Tung
Lung, Huong Cheng-Li, Roy Horan,
Lee Hoi-San and previously
unseen footage of Bruce Lee.
The film in many ways is similar to Fist of Fury 2 they are
both about avenging the death
of a brother. In this case Bobby
Lo played by Tung Lung set out
to get revenge for the death of
Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) at the hands
of Jim Koo (Huong Cheng-Li). This film
has a lot less American influence
than Game of Death , which ... ...and fighting scenes than a well thought out story Probably the best Bruce Lee film ever made, even though Bruce Lee is not actually
in it. Made with previously unseen footage of his films, a stand in and completed with the classic poorly dubbed English lame dialogue and amazing Kung Fu. When Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed at friend
Jim Koo's funeral, brother Bobby Lo (Tong Lung) sets out to avenge his death.
Bobby Lo sets off to Japan to meet ...
