Simply A Masterpiece

good back-story, and good acting

Blistering performances.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Born in America, Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee) grew up in Hong Kong with his father. After a fight with western soldiers, his father sends him away to study in American. His father warns him of the demon that haunts the male children of the family. In 1962, he is washing dishes in San Francisco. After a fight with the kitchen staff, he's fired. After a fight with a bunch of jocks, he's asked to teach them how to fight. Linda (Lauren Holly) becomes one of his students. They start dating despite the discrimination and the disapproval. Opening his own school, he is challenged to a fight for teaching to non-Chinese. He is blindsided and severely injured. Later TV producer Bill Krieger (Robert Wagner) brings him in to play Green Hornet's sidekick Kato which leads to his eventual stardom.This is a fine biopic that is turned into a kung fu movie. Bruce Lee's story is quite effective. The rougher parts of his life is glossed over as his widowed wife Linda probably had a large say in the movie. I would like to have seen his life turn into more of a fantasy. The part of him fighting his demon could be used to much better effect. The demon is his greatest fight and provides a great opportunity. Nevertheless this is a very compelling biopic with a solid performance from Jason Scott Lee.

wonderful story , it was truly a nice story it was heart warming and sad at the same time , it even teaches how racism can hurt people's feeling. there were parts that made me enjoy and the movie just stole my heart . the only part that i didn't like is the performance of the Bruce lee ,his was good at it but it felt like he is doing a comedy show but i don't know maybe the real Bruce lee was a funny guy but when i imagine Bruce lee i always imagine a character like harry potter or rocky but i don't but for as the film goes he did a pretty good job , overall great movie it deserves a good recognition among people i say give it a watch .

Generally I do not like biographical movies, and I wondered what could be so exciting about Bruce Lee's life. I would probably be lynched by saying that, but I am one that does say things that offend people: such as Jesus being the only way to heaven. As far as I knew Bruce Lee was simply a Hong Kong actor, but after watching this movie I realised how wrong I was.The opening scene has Bruce Lee enter into dance hall when some Asians are being picked on by some sailors (with Australian accents) and he beats them up. This scene runs very much like a Hong Kong fight scene without the finese. It is trying to hard to be like a Hong Kong movie here. Even with this shortcoming, the film doesn't unfold like this. Now I cannot say how much I know about Lee's life, but after watching this film, I know a bit more.There are three themes in Dragon. The one that I see the most is Lee's struggle with white man. This ties in with another theme and that is facing one's fear. Fear in this movie manifests itself as a powerful Oriental Knight that is almost unbeatable, and even though I don't know that much about Oriental Mysticism, I feel that these demon scenes are over glorified. As you watch the movie, one begins to see how much Lee struggled trying to be accepted by white people. He goes to America with dreams in his eyes, and leaves disillusioned, after being denied by his own people to teach them their arts, and by being betrayed by other people, such as Hollywood, who took his Kungfu idea and gave it to another man. He also learnt what discrimination was, hatred simply because you were slightly different. Yet he did find comfort in a woman, an Anglo woman, who loved him for who is was, and this movie is actually told through her mouth, as it was based on her biography.I don't think Lee had that much of a hard life. He rubbed a few people up the wrong way, but he took chances and managed to pull himself through. He listened to his wife and opened up a Dojo to teach his forms of martial arts, and he defied his people by teaching it to the white and black man. It is interesting how he bonds with the Negro who first walked into his Dojo, and we see this bonding especially before he goes to fight the Asian, for it seems that the Negro has made Lee one of his own.The other theme was Bruce's desire to please his father. His father sent him away from Hong Kong because of a curse, and the weight always on his mind was that he had to let his father know that he had succeeded. When his father had died he had only made a dent, but it was that one trip back to Hong Kong that made him a filmstar. Yet his father said that Hong Kong would kill him, and even though he defeated his demon, the movie claims that he died after falling into an unknown coma. There are a lot of rumours around about how Lee died, but I am not willing to commit to one, and neither was the movie. As the narrator says at the end, they don't think about how he died, but rather how he lived. All I can say is that is important because decisions made in life can effect you when you are dead.

I just watched the DVD I bought - based on John Nolte of Big Hollywood's recommendation. I knew just the bare outline of Bruce Lee's story.I have to say it is an amazing story. That being said I have read other reviews of people - fans of Bruce Lee, who say that the movie contains inaccuracies, such as the reason he left Hong Kong for America.His actual wife Linda (nicely portrayed by Lauren Holly) said that the movie captures his personality and while this movie is really the only thing I have to base my opinions on (unlike other reviewers who obviously have had other material) - the fact that his wife has endorsed this movie tells me that the main facts - are intact. She also said that Jason Scott Lee portrayed Bruce Lee perfectly. While he was not trained in martial arts (but was a gymnast from what I have heard) I think he "channeled" Bruce Lee. The movie shows the adversity Lee overcame - physical, spiritual and prejudicial in America - to become a world wide phenomena.It is an inspirational movie.ADDENDUM: I just talked with a good friend of mine who emigrated from Hong Kong in the late 1960s, went to Delta College in Stockton, CA where he met Robert Lee, brother of Bruce Lee. Apparently Bruce Lee's mother lived in Stockton a short time, too. About 1970 he drove Robert & a few other friends down to Los Angeles one weekend where he actually met Bruce. A couple of stories: Bruce had a good sense of humor and sang some Chinese opera with words rewritten by him, on the risqué side. Also there were a few people there who were martial arts enthusiasts and Bruce gave a small demonstration - he asked one of them to stand while he put his fist on his chest, flicked his wrist and the fellow fell went back a few steps just from the power of Bruce's wrist. Anyway from what my friend knows of Bruce from meeting him and knowing his brother he says the movie is pretty accurate as to the main events in Lee's life. And according to my friend, Bruce left Hong Kong because the police were looking for him,just as the movie depicts.