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2 comments about Color of Courage.

1. This movie had so many positive elements and wonderful actors. And perfect for the family. (ie: clean)

   It tells the story of the 1940's Sipes v. McGhee trial - the case which considered the question of the legality of restrictive deed covenants. (Restrictive covenants created segregated neighborhoods and kept blacks out of all white neighborhoods)

   I was born and raised in the South and at one point, I did a title search on my home and my mother's home and found "deed restrictions" on both properties (one built 1928, the other 1949) that said "no person of African descent may occupy or purchase this property."

   The movie begins with a black family (the McGhees) moving into an all white Detroit neighborhood in cover of darkness. It is night and they hustle to get settled in before the neighbors discover them.

   Mac McGee (Roger Guenveur Smith) and his wife Minne (Lynn Whitfield) just want a nice home in a nice area for their two sons. They both do an exceptional acting job and you really gain an understanding of the price they paid to be pioneers in very hostile territory.

   Anna Sipes (Linda Hamilton) is the white next door neighbor who is lonely and bored and strikes up a friendship with Minnie. Her hubby - Benjamin Sipes (Bruce Greenwood) is an overbearing jerk at times who is more bent on keeping up appearances than taking a moral stand for what is right.

   "The Color of Courage" does a good job of telling what the McGee family endured in the midst of that long hard lonely fight.

   The movie gets a wee bit slow in places, but overall, this flick is a solid five stars. And when our family watches these kind of films, I'm always amazed at how little my kids know about "the way things used to be".

   This movie has the capacity to really open up discussion on these topics and also helps educate.

   And it is a movie with great acting, too. The two McGhee kids were masterfully played but their characters could've been developed a wee bit more.

   But this is a good movie and above that - a very important movie.




2. The Color of Courage covers the relationships between a white family and a black family. Linda Hamilton is wonderful as the obedient, quiet, and bored housewife who shyly reaches out to welcome her new neighbor (Lynn whitefield, who is very effective as the woman who dreams of her own home in a sweet neighborhood). The relationship between Linda Hamilton and her husband (played by Bruce Greenwood) suffers as a result of her friendship; he is anxious to be accepted as part of the neighborhood of shallow, click-ish bigots, but is finally brought around by his wife's devotion to the black family and her quiet disappointment in his support of the bigotry. In one wonderful, pivotal scene, after his neighbors have manipulated him to use his name in a lawsuit to force the black family out, the leaders of this movement discuss what other options they can exercise to remove the family, completely ignoring Greenwood's character. He effectively throws them out and gains his wife's pride and approval. Although he is the last one to offer his hand to his black neighbor, it is a genuine acceptance. The phone call from the lawyer to the McGhee family is a -particularly effective scene. I wanted to applaud when I heard his name (Thurgood Marshall). Watch for several scenes between Greenwood and his black neighbor - particularly the scene in the bowling alley. A truly effective film.

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5 comments about The Chinese Connection.

1. The voices are dubed in and it is in a deep voice but there a some great fight seens but if you want to see a really good Bruce Lee movie get Enter the Dragon.The Chinese Connection is still a good movie



2. I wanted to like this but in the behind the scenes interviews they show little respect for Bruce Lee and that got me started off on the wrong foot. Then I watch it and it just isn't that clever. I did laugh once or twice but i expected something more along the lines of What's Up Tiger Lilly. At least they could have had the actors play orientals. Too bad because this concept could have been funny.



3. I love this movie and still think its Lee at his best. Between the scene of him as a very awkward phone repairman, and the scene where he takes on a horde of bad guys with Nunchucks, this is his most complete performance on screen to me and showed his talent at its best. This transfer is of a much better quality than most of the releases out there of this movie. If you ever wanted to see just how good and talented Bruce was, just watch this one and find out.
   The story is standard for these movies but Lee bumps the action and the acting up to give this one it's true classic reputation.



4. 1972's "The Chinese Connection" features a young Bruce Lee as the leading student at a King Fu Academy in 1908 Shanghai. The storyline is a simple tale of revenge, but in the context of a Shanghai dominated by Japanese and other outsiders, in which the natives are treated as second-class citizens, it resonated deeply with its original Chinese audience.
   
   In the movie, Chen, played by Bruce Lee, returns to his academy to find that his beloved master, a famous martial artist, is dead. Chen is stricken with grief, but learns from his fellow students that his master's death may not have been an accident. Chen patiently but violently works his way back through the members of a rival Japanese school, looking for those responsible for the master's death. Highlights include a many-on-one fight at the school, which Chen wins decisively, and a confrontation with a Russian martial artist brought in to deal with Chen. Chen's willingness to stand up for his fellow Chinese forces the hand of the local authorities (including a police chief played by director Lo Wei), who are beholden to the Japanese. Cornered at the end, the gallant Chen will be left with only one option.
   
   The original Chinese is dubbed over in English, unfortunately resulting in dialogue that sounds like it was lifted from a high school drama. Fortunately, the non-verbal qualities of the acting, including a touching performance by Nora Miao as Chen's love interest and some nicely choreographed fight sequences, carry the movie. "Chinese Connection" is a Raymond Chow production, and a better than average representative of the early martial arts genre.
   
   This movie is highly recommended to fans of Bruce Lee and of the early martial arts movies.



5. This movie (called Fist Of Fury overseas) was made before Enter The Dragon and, in my opinion, ranks just behind ETD! While all of Bruce's films and fight scenes are legendary, if this one or ETD is on TV, everything stops! LOL!
   
   The plot, like ETD, is very basic. Bruce comes back to his martial arts school to find out his teacher was dead! Not only that, he suspects was murdered and goes on a rampage to avenge his death!
   
   What's interesting is that even though the film is fiction, the teacher was actually a real life person. That character was recently shown in a film by Jet Li called "Fearless."
   
   Back to the movie, what makes this special is Bruce himself. He was electrifying in every scene he was in. While I am still biased to Enter The Dragon, Chinese Connection ranks a close second in my view! Highly recommended!

5 comments about A Tribute to Bruce Lee.

1. First a word of caution: this boxed set does NOT feature Bruce Lee. Having said that, this boxed set is actually worth for 2 movies: The Image of Bruce Lee and The Man, The Myth, both of them starring Bruce Li (in my opinion the best of the Bruce Lee imitators, and a great martial artist in his own right). The later one is the best biopic of Bruce Lee ever made to this date. Much better story and martial arts than the Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story. They could have done a better job at remastering this film though, it is well worth the job. The other two movies aren't worth. Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave (starring Bruce K. Lea) is a mediocre martial arts film, it has it's moments. But I found Fist of Fear, Touch of Death in my opinion incredibly boring, as it pretends to be some kind of documentary, but it really isn't. Nonetheless, if you are planning to buy it, get it for the Bruce Li movies. They are definitly worth a look.



2. To start off with bruce lee returns from the grave is the best movie ever made. It has a brillent story line. The star of the this classic is Bruce lea who is in every way a better actor then bruce lee. This movie should have won every single acadamy award the year it was released. It is the funniest movie I have EVER seen. The fight seens take a back drop the comedy, but in any case they are extremely well done so that they make the movie even funnier. This is not mentioning that the bad guys in this movie are karates verson of the village people. Lets see there the black guy, the white guy, the japanese guy, the mexican guy, and the cowboy(who instead of a gun wields a widespread traditional cowboy weapon the ninja star.) I'm truly surprised that this movie is not on the top 100 movies list. Ohh and guess what this is not even a kung fu movie it's a Tae Kwon Do movie and they dubbed it just the right time so the charecters are say Tae Kwon Do when you hear Gung fu. If you want to see one of the best movies ever made pick this one up.



3. Hey dudes! WHo is reviewing this thing! The dude who said these films deserve academy awards is on dope! "Fist of Fear, Touch of Death" is the worst bruce lee exploitation ever. It was made by Fred Williamson and his con artists at World Northal Films in the late 70's to pad their bank accounts. There were numerous lawsuits surrounding this turkey! Oh, Note to other reviewer: BRUCE LEE appears in none of these films, except for quick outtakes in that loser "Fist of Fear...". "Bruce Lee The man the Myth" is the only film worth watching, and yes, IT IS far superior to the Hollywood chick flick "Dragon STory". You can buy "MAn the Myth" seperately here at Amazon.com, so search for it and get it. The other two clunkers in this package are quite simply filmed road kill wrapped in a brightly colored package.



4. A Tribute to Bruce Lee is more for Bruceploitation fans than Bruce Lee fans, with the exception of the excellent Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth. None of these four movies actually feature Bruce Lee at all, and three of them basically have nothing to do with him whatsoever. The aforementioned Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth, however, is arguably the finest biographical film of Bruce Lee's life ever made, and it stars the most famous of the Bruce clones, Bruce Li, in what is almost surely his finest role. Li manages to capture some of the essence and fighting style of the Dragon, and Bruce Lee's life is portrayed in a quite positive manner. The film steers clear of innuendoes of any kind until the very end, when it dramatizes a couple of speculative and rumor-based hypotheses concerning the mysterious death (or, in one case, disappearance) of Lee at the young age of 33.

   Whereas Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth is a five-star look at the real Bruce Lee's life, the abominable Fist of Fury, Touch of Death stands as its polar opposite. This film is nothing short of the worst Bruceploitation film ever made. The story, surrounding the 1979 karate championships where Bruce Lee's "successor" will be determined by the winner of the welterweight fight between complete no-names, is atrocious. The greatest sin of this film, however, is its presentation of a completely fictional and error-riddled biography of Bruce's early years.

   Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave is a travesty of a title , and the plot summary of this film that you will find on the back cover detailing Bruce's return to battle the Dark Angel of death is patently false and woefully inaccurate. This movie is really too weird to go into here, but the captivating Deborah Chaplin who plays opposite our hero Wong Han (played by Bruce K.L. Lea) helped make this Bruceploitation film much better and enjoyable than the plot could ever have managed to be on its own.

   Image of Bruce Lee is another film salvaged quite nicely by an amazing actress – in this case, the gorgeous Dana Lei. Bruce Li plays a pretty lousy detective whose inability to remain out of sight on reconnaissance missions leads him to face a number of kung fu challengers along the way. Bruce Lee fans should get a kick out of seeing Yin-Chieh Han, who played the bad gay in Fist of Fury (aka The Big Boss), as well as Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon, spot important roles in the film. The amazing Dana Lei, though, makes this otherwise crackpot film a Bruceploitation favorite of mine – not only is she gorgeous and talented, she also supplies the late plot twist that elevates this film a step above mediocrity.

   Any Bruce Lee fans should see Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth, but many such fans will be turned off by the other three Bruceploitation films rounding out the four movies included in this release. If you inexplicably love the Bruceploitation films as much as I do, though, Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave and Image of Bruce Lee are two of the more memorable knockoff films which you will not want to miss. No Bruce Lee fan can possibly find a single bit of enjoyment in Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, but it is worth a look for anyone who wonders just how low a Bruceploitation film could possibly go in order to make money off a dead hero's name. As long as you know what you are getting here and don't have a problem with Bruceploitation films, A Tribute to Bruce Lee is actually a very affordable, entertaining purchase.




5. After Bruce Lee died, the Hong Kong film industry wasted no time making movies with lookalikes. Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce KL Lea, Bruce Leung, Dragon Lee, Conan Lee, Bronson Lee, Rocky Lee, and Bruce Ly are but a few of these imposters. The results were almost always abominable, and this set includes four of them.
   "Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth" is often considered one of the best fake Bruce Lee movies...which really shows how bad these things got. It's a cheesy biopic starring Bruce Li in which our hero travels around the world, makes movies, gets married (a passionless romance, apparently, as displayed here), and dies. The high point of the movie is that several different deaths are shown, including Bruce being mugged and Bruce going into hiding.
   "Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave," contrary to popular belief, only shows Lee resurrected in the short pre-credits sequence. The rest of the movie is about an obnoxious man (Bruce K.L. Lea) moving to America and investigating the murder of his old friend. It's perhaps the worst movie in the set, but its hilariously awful dialogue (including the unforgettable interrogation scene) make it worthwhile.
   "The Image of Bruce Lee" once again stars Bruce Li, this time as a secret agent investigating a diamond smuggling ring...I think. Kung-fu legend Bolo Yeung also stars, as well as the frequently nude Dana Lei.
   "Fist of Fear Touch of Death" may very well be the most evil movie ever made, but it's sure hilarious. Set at a Madison Square Garden tournament, future Oscar nominee Adolph Caeser hosts a retrospective to Bruce Lee. Interviews with minor stars like Fred Williamson and Ron Van Clief are here, as well as a wildly innacurate Bruce Lee biopic and some completely faked interview footage. A must-see.
   Only "Fist of Fear" is presented in widescreen (roughly 2.35:1), while the others are in rather scratchy and blurry pan and scan. (1.33:1). "Fist of Fear" looks the best, but with its muted colours and grain, that's not saying much. "Fist of Fear" has a few irrelevent extras (an old short film, a "DVD Dictionary," and a quiz about movies in general). The rest of the movies have the exact same menu and "kung-fu info" as their Front Row Entertainment discs.

5 comments about Fist of Fear, Touch of Death.

1. Unlike me, you have the help of these hilarious reviews to spell it out for you: this is a very uproarious rip-off of Bruce Lee. It's kinda like Shaft and Tiger Lily sitting down to dinner at the Cleaver's. It's so shockingly bad, it's good. I paid a buck for a copy. It was a good price.



2. This has to be one of those intentionally bad films. They mislead you by saying it's about Bruce Lee's career. Pretty much everything is fake, but they didn't really try to hide this fact. The setting is the 1979 World Karate Championships at Madison Square Garden where the successor to Bruce Lee is supposed to be determined as a result of media attention. Bruce Lee actually died several years before. Before you know it, they go to the halftime show that depicts Bruce's early days and his great grandfather, who was one of the best samurai swordfighters of the 19th century. The flashback of Bruce's great grandfather in color is most likely re-dubbed scenes from a fictional film set in ancient China,not the 19th century, where the martial artists have unrealistic abilities. The scenes depicting Bruce's early days in black and white have nothing to do with the karate lessons that the poorly dubbed dialogue is talking about, since the characters just sit around and do nothing the whole time. Anyway, everyone knows samurai are not from China or the 19th century. Adolf Caesar mentions Bruce Lee as the king of kung fu in the beginning, but in the flashbacks and other parts, they say that Bruce does karate, which is also from Japan and not China. A karate tournament that happens every year hardly seems to be appropriate in determining the succesor to Bruce's title, especially since the championship fight that lasts only two rounds features two fighters who are probably no better than the couch potatoes in your local martial arts class. Perhaps even more insulting than a karate match resembling a boxing match determining the king of kung fu title is that the suggestion that the winner might inherit Bruce Lee's supposed curse, the touch of death. At least the main characters had the decency to conclude that the event could not live up to Bruce Lee's legacy.
   The convesations with Bruce Lee are two or more scenes of a person alternated between each other, with the words edited and entirely different backgrounds. When Bruce is supposed to be showing Aaron Banks his new move, they simply cut to Aaron Bank's face and play some fake karate noise in the background. The two of them don't even wear the same clothes throughout the whole conversation. The fight scenes where Ron Van Clief and Bill Louie beat up sex crazy street gangs teaming up on women joggers in parks are entertaining, but not very impressive. The main events are skinny guys in pajamas sparring with each other, rather than the promised highlights from Bruce Lee's career. The demonstrators need protective gear for kicks, but if Bill Louie tosses someone's eyes to the crowd, it's just part of the show. Aaron Banks demonstration of the touch of death or vibrating palm turns out to be nothing more than breaking a board with his fist. Fred Williamson is supposed to be starring with Bruce Lee, which of course is no longer possible, but he doesn't even do any fighting in this film. And his "girlfriend", who looks like she got a face transplant and had all the color bleached from her skin, begs him to satisfy her. Why would Fred be sleeping with someone he doesn't want to have sex with? He gets mistaken for Harry Belafonte, just like how every Chinese film ever made happens to be about Bruce Lee in this movie. In some versions, there is a Casper the Ghost cartoon in the special features, which is apparently just for the sake of having special features. Even though it's a cheap film, there's no excuse for the Chinese samurai and other blatant inaccuracies. After the tournament is over, Adolph Caesar says it's good that Bruce can no longer be beaten and asks "why should we try to topple his legacy", which is exactly what this film is doing.



3. First off the movie is an obvious comedy that knows it is being funny. It IS a funny movie that is a piss take on all the fake Bruce Lee movies being done at the time. The violence is comic to start with. Scenes like the eyeballs are played for laughs. Making Lee's voice fem was an obvious joke too, as was his "Samurai" background. The black and white footage IS Bruce as a child actor. Redubbed to be satirically biographical it cuts between the old film and the 70s B Samurai movie in a direct parody of "The Real Bruce Lee". The skits are meant to be funny as are the would be attackers. There are some real martial arts in the film by excellent practitioners and the point of the whole movie is that you should be yourself. The message is use Bruce to inspire you but be your own self in martial arts and in acting. I liked this very much its fun cheese that doesn't take itself seriously.



4. This is not a real Bruce Lee film. Some people said it was funny, but it is really just horrible. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. The extra cartoon "Casper" is probably the best part. If you want real Bruce Lee fighting action, you may have to spend more than $4.99.



5. I thanked him and said nothing. I had already viewed this "Messterpiece" long before on one of those "Mega" collections of Martial Arts movies. Yes, Masterpiece is miss spelled on purpose, so no coments please. As for this junk, skip it and watch "Game Of Death", As bad as it is, its better than this crap!!!!!!!!!!

5 comments about Bruce Lee: True Story.

1. This is generally considered to be the best bio-pic made of Bruce Lee's life, even though it does leave some gaps in the story. Often billed as a documentary, it is in fact a movie based on the biography of the man, and it takes the high road by trying to present Bruce Lee as he really was. The film opens with the ambulance transporting Bruce to the hospital, followed by a respectful look at his gravesite, and only then do we go back in time to trace the extraordinary life of this martial arts legend. Bruce Li plays the part of the Dragon, and I was definitely most impressed by his performance. The first few Bruce Li films I watched, I couldn't understand why this man is generally considered to be the best of the Bruce Lee imitators. He impressed me in Chinese Connection 2, but Li is on top of his game in Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth; his resemblance in both look and form to Bruce Lee is much more polished here than in Li's other films.

   We follow Bruce Lee from Hong Kong to Seattle, Washington, where he teaches the martial arts to those wanting to learn, having by now gone a long way toward establishing his own special Jeet Kune Do style. From here it is on to San Francisco and then Los Angeles, by which time he has landed the role of Kato in The Green Hornet. Eventually, the reluctance of Hollywood to build a movie around a relatively unknown Asian fighter leads him to return to Hong Kong to make a name for himself there. This film features a very nice reproduction of one scene from Bruce's first big movie, The Big Boss (aka Fists of Fury in the US). After a couple of Hong Kong successes, he makes his successful return to America to begin the film career he had dreamed about. He found early work behind the scenes of several movies, including one filmed in Rome which is reproduced faithfully on location in this bio-pic. The rest of his movie career is zipped through rather quickly, setting the stage for the inevitable and tragic death of this man whose legend will never fade away. The one major issue I have with the film concerns Bruce's wife and children. There are no references to his getting married or becoming a father; the wife and kids just turn up out of the blue one night to tell him goodnight.

   There are a number of good fight scenes in this film, largely due to the fact that Bruce Lee was constantly accosted and challenged by tough guys, martial arts "experts," and practitioners of any number of fighting disciplines wherever he went: on the street, at the airport, even on the sets of his movies. Bruce also had to endure a great deal of prejudice against his Chinese ethnicity. Heaven help anyone who put down kung fu, such as a fair number of karate experts and a number of proud Thai boxers. You would think only the most foolhardy of folks would dare challenge Lee to a fight, but there are a lot of really dumb men in the world who were taught a hard lesson by Bruce Lee.

   This film does a good job of showing just how hard Bruce Lee worked and trained, featuring shots of Bruce working with his own special proto-computer type training station and zapping himself with electricity in order to become ever stronger. Watching Bruce Li endure the pain of such unorthodox training leaves an indelible memory on the viewer's mind. The ending is quite interesting. We first see Bruce assaulted by a tremendous headache during one of his workouts (and he amazingly blocks out the pain and continues working), and in the end we see another headache hit while he is discussing his new movie with Betty Ting Pei at her apartment, after which he takes the medicine Betty gives him and lies down, never to awake. There are no innuendoes at all cast on this presentation of events. Then, almost after the fact, a narrator mentions the rumors and mystery of Bruce's death, and we are shown two scenarios popular at the time, especially in Hong Kong- in one, we see him beaten up by some well-armed thugs, and in the next we are presented with the idea that he, in order to avoid the death a wise man had predicted would strike at age 33 (actually, the movie gets Bruce's age at the time of his death wrong, saying he was 35), faked his death and would remain in isolation for ten years. I really had not heard this rumor before; at the time this film was made, though, apparently some people waited hopefully for Bruce to return in 1983.

   Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth really is the best of the Bruce Lee bio-pics available, despite the fact it was released back in 1976. Bruce Li gives the finest performance of his career, and the movie strikes a respectful tone that fittingly acknowledges both the mythic qualities of Bruce Lee as well as the human side of the man. Bruce Lee was, after all, just a man (albeit an extraordinary one), and it is important to remember and celebrate his life rather than get completely caught up in the mythology surrounding his achievements and mysterious death.




2. I am a true fan of Bruce Lee.

   Let me sum up why you shouldn NOT buy this DVD :

   - In the audio documentaries, at the very begining, the guy says : 'I think we all agree this is not a very good movie'
   Not only they all agree but I also agree.

   The audio documentaries are VERY poor quality, those are intervieze conducted over the phone, you can barely hear what they re saying, and in fact they can hardly hear what they re saying. One of them says : "are you guys still there"

   The movie is pure fiction! You expect a good bio but the only thing you are sure that really happened is the death of Lee in Betty Ting Pei s appartment. In the movie you can see Lee (not the real one) training with a strange machine (fiction), you can see him fight during the filming of big boss (fiction again)

   The audio commentaries, appart from being poor sound qualities, really show that the guys are bored to death when they speak, and one of them is actually explaining how Lee is not that great !! He is speaking to what I believe are the videos Lee made of him and Coburn in his backyard, according to this guy, the kicks are not that good...

   I am not going to waste more time about this DVD.

   If you want to waste money and if burning your notes or sending money to charity is not an option for you, then buy this DVD.

   Don t be fooled by the other comments, that s why I bought it and here is the result.




3. "Bruce Lee: True Story" (commonly known in the west as "Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth") was arguably the best and probably the most successful of the Bruce Lee exploitation films of the 70s. It's still pretty cheesy, though. Bruce Li stars as Lee in this heavily fictionalized biopic that covers his early days in Seattle, his big break in the film industry, the many people who supposedly challenged him to a fight, and his death (amusingly, several alternate deaths are provided at the end). Most of this is made up and the movie itself is kinda shameless, but it's more respectful than some of the other Bruce biopics and it was actually filmed all around the world (Hong Kong, Rome, USA).
   Being a VideAsia disc, the picture quality is horrible. The use of the title "Bruce Lee True Story" indicates that a subtitled Chinese print would be used, but it's merely a USA "The Man, The Myth" print seemingly mastered from a videotape (the dubbing does admittedly give the film a goofy charm). It's heavily faded with many scratchy sections. The image is pan and scan, heavily cropped from its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, making the already sub-par fight scenes worse.
   The area that this disc truly excells in is extras. First, their are two audio commentaries. The film focuses more on Bruce Lee (with Joe Lewis, Joe Hyams, Davis Miller and George Tan) and the second on the film (George Tan and Davis Miller, again). I only listened to a portion of the first commentary, which has poor sound quality and isn't very interesting. The second commentary (which can only be accessed using the DVD Audio button), which also hard to hear, is actually very good, and well worth a listen to.
   "The Bruce Lee Stories" includes clips from various Bruceploitation films with commentary to disect the various factual errors in them. Though short, it's very funny. Bruceploitation fans will also enjoy an interview with Bruce Li. While hardly touching on "Bruce Lee: True Story" and obviously filmed for something else, Li does talk about his career and other roles, which is interesting. Another interview, with director Ng See Yuen, doesn't mention "Bruce Lee: True Story" at all.
   For Bruce Lee fans, there are two documentaries about his martial arts by two of his students (one of them being Joe Lewis). Extras are rounded out by and American trailer, TV Spots, and a strange feature called "InstaAction" that jumps right to the action scenes, skipping all that pesky plot that keeps getting in the way during the movie.



4. Quote from george tan, the producer of Death by Misadventure, a documentary included in this 4 dvd set brought to us by the infamous video asia.
   
   So the movie is horrible but it was laying around in video asia's library of crappy kung fu movies, so they used it. One interesting note is how they talk about how this movie actually reached Enter the Dragon type of box office #'s worldwide. But I guaranteee you the movie is just godawful.
   
   There are 2 commentaries on this film and one is very important. The important one has the original writer of Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story- Rob Cohen's outrageously stupid and funny American Bruce Lee Bio movie. There is A LOT of important info discussed and this dvd is HIGHLY recommended by me for any bruce lee fan. Joe Lewis comes on and talks about how he met bruce and this commentary alone easily gets a 5/5.
   
   The second commentary discusses the movie, Bruce Lee the True Story.
   
   The extras are pretty good, though the ng see-tuen interview is way out of place. Still all the extras are pretty good.
   
   NOTE-the dvd set gets only a 3 becuase the audio on the important commentary is lousily done and you will need to turn your TV up pretty loud. The commentary that talks about the movie is a little better audio quality.



5. I feel that this movie is the greatest Bruce Lee biography movie. The lead actor "Bruce Li" (real name Ho Chung Tao, who was on stand by as Bruce Lee's understudy in his movies) has an uncanny resemblance to Bruce Lee and does a great job. Directed by legendary Hing Kong moviemaker Ng See Yuen (who launched the careers of Jackie Chan, Jean Claude Van Damme and Cynthia Rothrock, as well as directing the final film in the Bruce Lee catalogue Game Of Death 2, choreographed by the amazing Yuen Woo Ping), this movie does justice to Bruce Lee, and that makes me a very happy man. Long live Bruce Lee...

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5 comments about Fists of Fury.

1. Fists of Fury is the film that revealed the world an extraordinary, brilliant and lovable Chinese American known as Bruce Lee. The film tells the tale of a simple Chinese farm boy who arrives at an ice packing plant outside of Bangkok, Thailand to work for his uncle. Of course, the local thugs are giving everyone a hard time. However, unlike most of his films, Bruce is initially reserved about using his vicious Jeet Kune Do moves against the bad guys, and his less skilled friend does the majority of the fighting in the first half of the movie. But when Bruce is pushed to the edge.....you had better watch out.
   
   My only disappointment is that the majority of Lee's opponents are chinese kung fu fighters and he never faces anyone using Thailand's own martial art, Muy Thai kickboxing. Thai and Chinese racial relations have never been the warmest so the film production was beset with problems. However, anyone wanting to examine the film career of the amazing Bruce Lee is sure to check out the Fists of Fury.



2. Bruce Lee (The Chinese Connection, Game Of Death) plays Cheng, who goes to work at a Ice Packing plant and winds up finding out that there is drugs within the ice itself. Soon, after he becomes the foreman, his relatives go disappearing and he finds out the factory's owners are behind it. So, Lee takes on the vicious Bangkok drug ring vowing to his Mom that he would never use his pyhsical powers again but in this time of crisis, Lee breaks the oath in order to put an end to this once and for all. Classic, classic..and a masterpiece of it's time, Fists Of Fury doesnt start off with Lee in kung fu action, he's laid back until it's time and when ever in this movie he is kicked or flying around....escpecially the last couple of fights within the ice factory and the end fight where Lee waltzs up to the factory's head honcho eating some sort of bread, Lee leaves a sting of a prescene that echoes to this day. All hail Lee, for he is The Legend.



3. "Fist of Fury" is a good movie. This is Bruce Lee (starring as Cheng Chao-an) first debut as a fully fledged martial arts star. This is not his best film but it helped to propel him into the super-hero and legend status that he is today and will ever be. He also popularized martial arts worldwide.
   
   The movie is a bit slow at the beginning when Bruce Lee moves from his town to run away from fights and other problems and goes to a small town to live with his cousins. He promises his mother that he will never fight, which is a hard promise to keep in the environment he is living. For example, on his way to his new home, he witnesses a young lady and a kid being harassed and bullied but does not take an active part in the ensuing fight.
   
   Cheng gets a job at a local ice factory. Cheng finds out that the factory is just a front for making drugs. His friends start disappearing mysteriously without trace. The pace of the film picks up when Cheng and his colleagues start investigations into the disappearance of their friends. Fighting erupts and Cheng demonstrates his exceptional martial arts skills.
   
   Among my most memorable scenes includes when Bruce Lee fights the gangsters in the ice factory after someone cuts him and he joins the fight. When he starts to participate in the fight, the end is brief as the gangsters cannot match his outstanding performance. Also the grand finale is when Bruce Lee takes the fight to the Big Boss. The viewer is treated to some remarkable and breathtaking display of martial arts fighting in an open courtyard. Cheng has to fight some fierce dogs and ruthless gangsters and finally the Big Boss himself.
   
   This is a good movie that is well worth watching.



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5. With charisma to burn Bruce Lee set the Martial Arts film on its ear and forever changed them for the better.
   As a young man working at an ice factory that is a front for drug dealing Lee adds his considerable mastery of martial arts and a very good acting ability and lifts this slight story well above average. With graceful moves and almost poetic fight scenes, this let the world know that Bruce Lee was here and here to stay. I have often thought that if he and Sam Peckinpah would have worked together they might have made a true masterpiece. Low budget to be sure,but it's Lee who fills the screen and demands you to over look the small budget and see the grace of his movement. Not his best, but darn close!

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