bruce lee enter the dragon full movie youtube

A completely different context to in which I first viewed it. My Dad said he’d seen nothing like it back in 73, as someone brought up on the old Hollywood John Wayne school of action, with the wide swinging arm style beat down’s. That said, it’s another of those films, that to fully appreciate, you had to be brought up in another era. Being someone brought up on 90’s actioners, it looked ropey and dated. When I first saw this fick, it was missing the nunchaku segment and most of the stronger violence, from the scene with Bolo beating up the guards. Considering Lee’s co-stars have little to nothing to do in terms of contributing to the finale, the amount of time we have to spend with them leading up to it provides more padding than his punchbag.Įxcellent article Paul, and I agree with many of the points you mkae, even if I am a much bigger fan of the movie, than you are. Instead, we’re subjected to some nonsense about him being a hired secret agent from Shaolin, Saxon’s completely uninspired backstory involving gambling debts, and Jim Kelly acting like he’s in a completely different movie all together. The plot should have been simple – Bruce Lee partakes in a martial arts tournament to avenge the death of his sister. To think there’s people out there who are looking for additional footage is, quite frankly, unfathomable. Just short of 100 minutes, Enter the Dragon is at least 15 minutes too long. should have taken a page out of the ‘less is more’ manual of filmmaking. Casting Geoffrey Weeks as a poor man’s M, and a head scratching plot of a rogue Shaolin student using a martial arts tournament as a front to his opium smuggling operation, Robert Clouse and co. Released the same year as Roger Moore’s debut as Ian Fleming’s most famous creation, the secret agent styled shenanigans on display in Enter the Dragon were dated even before it hit cinema screens. Look, if you want to see an Asian version of 007, check out Jimmy Wang Yu in Asia-Pol from 1967 to see how it’s done. The influence of Bond drifts in and out of Enter the Dragon like spliced footage in a Godfrey Ho movie, making it come across as shoehorned in rather than a natural part of the narrative.

Bruce lee enter the dragon full movie youtube