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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Just perfect...

The acting in this movie is really good.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The Big Boss stars the legendary Bruce Lee as Cheng Chao-an, a migrant worker who visits his cousins in Thailand and begins work in an ice factory. Cheng has taken an oath of non-violence, and struggles to control himself and hold back as his cousins in Thailand begin to disappear...The Big Boss is certainly a classic martial arts film. It kick started Bruce Lee's film career, and made him a star in the East. One can see why. The fighting in this film is excellent, with Lee and fellow martial artists showcasing their talent, even with the films low budget look. The story itself is passable, as Cheng navigates an increasingly dangerous situation that he is trying his best to avoid. Supporting characters in the film are likable, and the thugs and villains suitably dastardly.A few small complaints would be the relatively weak, if passable story. It almost feels like the Big Boss is a sequel, as Cheng arrives with a back-story half told. Some characters acting skills are not on par with the fist fighting as well. The props and weapons also look laughably unrealistic.Those aside, this is a good martial arts film staring the legendary Bruce Lee. It's by no means the best of his filmography, but is enjoyable non the less. The Bog Boss is worth your time if you enjoy martial arts, or Bruce Lee's other films.

The film deserves it's high rating because it is the film that introduced Bruce Lee to the world.It is badly Directed by Lo Wei, badly acted by James Tien, Maria Yi and just about everyone else, but Bruce carries this film into Martial Arts history. The Big Boss is slow to start but that seems to emphasise just how good Bruce is. Compare James Tien's weak attempt at fighting off villains to the time when Bruce finally starts to fight and you can see why he made such a massive impact on the world of film.Bruce wanted realism and where he can he shows his skill and power. It is only Lo Wei's attempts to revert to silly comic book action that spoils it somewhat.It may seem to some an exaggeration but this film marked the beginning of something that changed the way all action films were made afterwards. Today all action films contain some Martial Arts whereas previously that wasn't the case.OK James Bond films had a go at showing some pretty unrealistic Karate, Judo and Ju Jitsui but Bruce changed the way Martial arts would be shown from then on. Without Bruce there would have been no Jackie Chan, or Jet Li or Jason Statham etc.The film itself does have some good points. The story is a good one and only spoilt by some really bad editing. I am sure there were some amazing scenes cut from this film and this makes the story jerky and unclear at times.So, if you haven't already done so, watch this classic, bear with it, and see the explosion that was Bruce Lee.

I first saw "The Big Boss" when I was about nine years old. My older cousin (who had introduced me to Lee a few years earlier) had given me a synopsis of the movie, and like him, I was genuinely enthralled. Unlike him, I hadn't experienced the Bruce Lee zeitgeist of the early 70's and, thus far, had only had real (reel) time with Lee in "Game of Death (1978)". For the better part of two years, I had idolized my hero mostly through photographs and because of this, he had taken on an additional mythical quality. As I slid in the videocassette, I remember a distinct feeling not too dissimilar to the one Indiana Jones must have felt upon finding the Holy Grail. I had lived with this film in my imagination for a child's eternity, and had a pretty good idea of what to expect. What I didn't know, was that the film itself would look and, more importantly, feel almost exactly as it had in my mind. For this reason, among others, "Boss" will always be a little extra special to me.Exactly what makes the movie so compelling? Unquestionably, it's the sheer magnitude of Lee's screen presence - a fact that prompted producer Raymond Chow to offer him the lead role initially intended for James Tien. Upon closer inspection, however, "Boss" possesses a primitive spontaneity and textural rawness that gives it an extremely tangible and visceral quality - a verisimilitude that's not unlike Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver". From the moment Lee's character, the humble Chinese immigrant Cheng Chao-An, arrives at the Pak Chong dock, right through to the evocative finale where he's hauled off by Thai police, there's a certain sense of reality taking shape. This energy is both kinetic and alive. Cheng is a young man with a troubled past. His newfound home offers an opportunity to seek his fortune through hard manual labor - a trade not uncommon to most Chinese expatriates- and, though never directly stated in the film, his pilgrimage was a result of his rebellious nature back home. Due to his new surroundings, Cheng's demeanor is both respectful and, oftentimes, painstakingly shy, but, there's an innate innocence to Cheng (represented by the jade locket given to him by his mother), and the more we spend time with him, we witness the gradual loss of that innocence. The set up works extremely well, as we don't see what Cheng is capable of till almost halfway into the film. Later, he'll come full circle, and embrace the animal he sought to suppress - the slaughter of his family being cataclysmic for the emotional arc he will experience in his journey.Particularly relevant is the way the violence is explored - uncompromisingly brutal, yet at the same time, strangely purifying. It's as if the violence serves as a confession, paving the way to Cheng's reputation as a muscular, young tiger. In the warehouse, bathed in eerie red light (that seemingly suggests the rage to come), Cheng discovers his cousins corpse. The flood lights switch on and we see: Cheng glaring at a group of thugs approaching; lightning quick, he hurls his flashlight at them - impaling the metal through a man's skull. Using every weapon at his disposal - including a saw - he systematically goes through each man with what can be described as serene savagery. This Zen-like dispassion has two exceptions: the moment the jade locket is torn from his neck, and the final battle where he puts his fingers through Mi Hsiao's ribcage and then proceeds to chain punch the villain's lifeless body to a pulp. If the broken locket represents the unleashing of the beast then the image of Cheng collapsing on top of the Mi's corpse is the exorcism of that beast.A major theme that separates "Boss" from Lee's subsequent films is its use of sexuality. Indeed, sex almost takes on its own character in the piece and abstractly mirrors the intensity of the violence. For the first (and only) time we see Lee sexually charged and uninhibited on celluloid. Eroticism runs through all of Cheng's relationships with women: borderline incestual with Chiao Mei, a flirtatious school boy crush with the girl at the ice stand and….promiscuous with local prostitutes - the latter of these two encounters was included in the original mandarin print of the film. In the deleted scene, Cheng, having made his decision to take vengeance for the murder of his family, returns to the town bordello. In direct contrast to his earlier encounter with Miss Wuman, he's straightforwardly aggressive - pushing the second Thai prostitute roughly onto the bed, and fully disrobing in front of her. Cheng's naked body becomes a symbol of the sacrifice he'll make to avenge his family, and his act of sheer pleasure with the prostitute represents his spiritual rebirth into the animalistic warrior that we witness during his fight at the Boss's mansion. Equally profound, is his departure from the room - specifically in the way he pays the prostitute for her service - delicately placing the last of his money on her belly while she sleeps. There's a sensual gravitas and a prevalent solitude that linger as Cheng leaves the room. The scene was later removed in an effort to preserve Lee's screen image, following his designated status as a cultural hero and role model to the Hong Kong and South-East Asian audience.

I am a massive fan of Bruce Lee, this film is not better than Enter the Dragon or Fist of Fury but the story is good, the fight scenes are OK but look silly, we all know that it's old fashion.I never buy video or DVD to watch this film but I recorded it on channel 4 in early 1997 and I still got the video tape. I think the Chinese language is mandarin, not cantonese, I might be wrong but it doesn't sound like cantonese. And the fight scene, Bruce killed the 'Big boss' with his bare hands and another scene, Bruce went to hotel to find out where the big boss is, both did actually show on TV, there might be more but I can't remember. While I copied the video to a new tape, I cut up the TV adverts and some unnecessary scenes because it was too long. I believe that some scenes were still exists that no-one have seen it before, I didn't realise and I should keep the whole version.