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Very best movie i ever watch

Beautiful, moving film.

A Major Disappointment

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar. Despite the great chemistry between Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly who are both terrific as Bruce Lee and his devoted wife Linda now as far as flaws go? the whole Demon thing and him spending a few years of his life in a wheelchair were historic stupidity and i couldn't take them serious. Great perfomances, great acting from the 2 leads and exceptional fight sequences but this biopic could have been a whole lot better in my book. (7/10)

I don't know that much about Bruce Lee, besides the obvious - i.e. his legendary status as the man who basically brought the martial arts genre to the West. Therefore I can't really say how factually accurate this film is (although, in the version I watched, Bruce Lee's real wife gave a brief speech at the beginning of the movie, saying how faithful it was). However, I hope I know a good story when I see one and I'm pleased to say that this is it.If, like me, you don't know too much about the man himself, I'm not sure how much more you'll know after watching Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. I've read Bruce Lee 'purists' online saying how inaccurate this film is, but, the one thing even they can agree on, is what good performances Lauren Holly and Jason Scott Lee give as Bruce Lee and his American wife.Therefore, with good performances, decent fight scenes and an - albeit questionably good - storyline, there are worst films you can watch if anything about Bruce Lee's life or the martial arts genre in general interests you.

I'm more a Jackie Chan fan than a Bruce Lee one but it didn't make Dragon less inspiring. Indeed even if it's only a fictionalized biographical film the story and its characters feel real enough. Jason Scott Lee is great as the legendary Bruce Lee and Lauren Holly perfect as Linda Emery, his future wife. In fact their romance is far much more interesting than the action scenes. Their choreography is over the top and weakens the humanist bond other sequences try to develop between him and the audience. Some are relatively good but the precious minutes wasted with the crazy cooks could have been spent on his training for instance. One minute he's a kid, the next he's a young adult and martial artist. It could also apply to the part covering the opening of his first school but the teaching elements are great. From his tragic accident to the writing of his famous book, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, it can only warm the heart and soul. There's also something dramatic about the confrontation of his dream to reality. It's probably symbolized by the samurai who chases him in his nightmares. This mystic element is actually one of my favorite with the empathic Linda. Their connection is magnified by the cult labyrinth of mirrors sequence and such a strong and beautiful woman is every man's dream. So Holly did an excellent job and it also applies to the athletic Scott Lee because from the screams to the moves from beginning to end it's almost like watching the master. To entertain and appeal the fans there're also plenty of fan service, like the hilarious The Green Hornet stunt. It leads us to racism because the issue has a major element and witnessing Bruce struggling to succeed and change the way people see things, only in white or yellow, is quite moving and thoughtful. So it has a few weaknesses but overall it's a mandatory experience for martial arts fans. Moreover it can only convince you to learn more about Bruce Lee and appreciate the tremendous impact his life had on millions of people around the world. The Dragon is eternal and its constellation shines every night !Note : This review was first posted on Kritikenstein, my weblog.

Bruce Lee was an amazing athlete and martial artist, with a story to match. It's just too bad Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story decided that wasn't worth telling. Instead, there are lots of fight scenes in improbable places with trumped-up foes, not to mention some stupid "curse of the dragon" that the real Bruce would never have believed in. In spots, this movie is almost as campy as the old Batman series was.A few documentaries have taken honest looks at the Lee phenomenon and managed to remain interesting throughout by showing us a determined, disciplined man who made his own success. In this movie, they had the entirety of Lee's life to use and decided to make up whole sections out of thin air just to spice things up. It puts itself not much above the sensationalistic Hong Kong films that made Bruce look nearly superhuman and the victim of some vast Triad conspiracy when the real man was just as fascinating. What a waste. I know conflict is emphasized in most screen writing classes, but instead of fight after fight as shown in this movie, how about showing some of the famous friends and students Bruce taught? And avoid the idiotic scenes like Bruce supposedly shattering 300+ pound ice blocks into chips with a single punch. If I wanted to see impossible feats like that, I'd go watch a Superman movie.Bruce's fighting philosophy was to eschew flashy techniques in favor of effective ones. Fighting wasn't for show, but to win. Only on film would he do things like backflips, somersaults, superhigh jumping kicks and animalistic kiai. Show us the man who trained long and hard, and studied and thought about not just fighting, but philosophy and health. Bruce's success was as much a product of his mind as of his body.We're now nearing 20 years after this movie's release and the 40th anniversary of Lee's death, with his legend and popularity only slightly diminished. To this day, Bruce remains the paragon of martial arts in the eyes of many, the man to whom all others are compared. I have a dream that someone will do a true biopic. His true story deserves better than to be ignored and hidden. I'd like to see a real drama rather than melodrama, with characters that have depth rather than the cartoonish ones in this film. There have been too many lies and myths told about Bruce over the years and this movie shamefully introduced more. "All these years later, people still wonder about the way he died. I prefer to remember the way he lived." Too bad this movie didn't show that way.