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A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) returns to Shanghai and is shocked to find his master Huo Yuanjia's funeral. Huo had started the Ching Wu School. The local Japanese dojo intrudes on the funeral and challenge them to a fight. Chen is suspicious of the death and investigates. He answers the challenge alone and takes down everybody forcing them to eat their words. He goes to a park where he's forbidden to enter. A sign reads "NO DOGS AND Chinese ALLOWED". As Chen continues to fight, his Japanese foes push the police to stop him.This is a classic kung fu movie. Bruce Lee is playing the martyr, the terminator, and the underdog. It doesn't get much better than Bruce taking on dozens of enemy. The best is probably him kicking the sign at the park to smithereens. There are some dubbing issues but this is still one of Bruce's best. His charisma shines through. This a real audience pleaser especially for Chinese national pride.

This movie takes place in pre-World War 2 Shanghai when the Japanese were involved with expanding their empire at the expense of China. As a result Shanghai was considered an international city in which the major powers at the time pretty much used as they saw fit. Anyway, it's during this time that a martial arts student by the name of "Chen Zhen" (Bruce Lee) returns to the dojo that meant so much to him. When he arrives he finds that his beloved master has died and is in the process of being buried. After a few days of intense bereavement Chen angrily demands to know how his master died. When told the official diagnosis was pneumonia Chen immediately rejects that explanation and suspects a more sinister cause. Not long afterward some members of a nearby Japanese dojo arrive and disrespectfully taunt those who are paying a final homage to their late master. This infuriates Chen who decides to take matters into his own hands and pay a visit to the rival dojo later that night. Now, rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk ruining it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was one of the first martial arts films shown to American audiences and it made a huge impression at the time. Even so, while it is certainly good, I don't consider it to be the best martial arts film ever made. I say this because the dubbing on the film that I watched was extremely bad. Additionally, the first fight scene between Bruce Lee and Yi Feng (as the Japanese martial arts instructor named "Yoshida") was rather pathetic. Along with that the film quality wasn't exactly top-notch either. On the plus side this movie features the best martial arts expert to have ever acted on screen bar none. Likewise, with the exception of the fight scene mentioned earlier, the rest of the combat scenes were quite excellent. I especially liked the fight between Chen and "Petrov" (Robert Baker). I also liked the addition of Nora Miao (as "Yuen Le-erh"). Be that as it may I thought this was a good movie and I rate it as slightly above average.

I'd never seen a Bruce Lee film before, maybe bits and pieces here and there, but this was the first one I just sat down and watched all the way through. I was expecting to be a little bit bored by a bunch of fake action events and no worthwhile plot. I soon found however that the movie was quite intriguing from the start, and for more reasons than one. First thing is, I didn't know that Bruce Lee could ACT. He's got this charisma, which on one hand goes part and parcel with the intensity of fierceness during the fight, yet on the other hand, he's no one-dimensional character either, and there are a lot of good dramatic scenes between characters in between the fights. Actually on-screen drama time is quite a bit more minute for minute than fight scenes, which I was happy to discover. Oh, there is definitely enough fighting, but not to the detriment of the story which grows and develops suspensefully.'Fist of Fury', set in colonial Shanghai times, is the story of a Japanese martial arts school trying to shut down a Chinese one, to which Lee belongs, after killing their master, and is the basis for a lot of very good fight scenes and just a touch of humor as Lee goes fugitive and then evading the law and donning a variety of disguises, single handedly takes them down one by one (and sometimes all together at the same time). This synopsis however doesn't do justice to the atmosphere of the story, the resonant feeling of 1970s "old Shanghai", rich in violence and Japanese/Chinese historic background. I can see now why Bruce Lee is still revered as the icon of bad@ss 70s cool - but his personality carried very well into scenes beyond the fight, unlike say Jet Li.

*Spoiler Alert!* OK. I won't lie. I liked Fist Of Fury. I really did.Well, that is - I liked the wild, over-the-top fight scenes that were, at times, a literal frenzied roller-coaster ride of grunting, groaning, snapping, leaping, screaming bodies flying this way and that.Yep. Bruce Lee (with his perfect coordination and his precision timing) really did a mighty fine job of royally kicking some serious ass.And, in the lull between all of the Kung Fu action, I also liked the priceless "Geisha-Girl" striptease. (nudge-nudge-wink-wink) Now, that was a hoot-and-a-half! And, I also got a really big kick (pardon the pun) at the moment when Bruce Lee's character who (not being able to put his opponent down with any of his deadly kicks or chops) actually resorted to (get this!) sinking his teeth into this fierce, unstoppable brute's foot. (I ain't kidding!) Believe me, from where I was sitting, this was a sheer delight to watch. This sort of conduct from Bruce was a real slice of pure slapstick comedy, straight out of an episode from The Three Stooges.This film also contained a helluva lot of outright prejudice and antagonism towards the Japanese. I certainly won't go into any great detail about it here - But, I will say that the Japanese were all depicted as being a truly despicable bunch of pseudo-Nazi types.When it came to this picture's overall action sequences and the wonderful choreographing of its fight scenes, I was really quite surprised when I came to realize just how often these very scenes have been lifted and blatantly used, over and over again, in such films as The Matrix Reloaded, Kill Bill, and other such films.Anyways - In spite of all the wooden performances, the laughable dialog, and the terrible dubbing that prevailed, it was undeniably Bruce Lee, the ultimate master of martial arts, who shone magnificently throughout this very film that literally started the whole Kung Fu movie-craze over 40 years ago.