A 7.4 for this thing? Seriously, people consider this movie worthy of such high praise? I guess others like Kung Fu films a bit more than me, but I have seen others not starring Bruce Lee that were more entertaining than this thing and with better plots. This one is like a short, but admittedly cool fight, then a whole lot of filling in time. A plot that could have easily been a simple hour and 15 minute movie stretched to nearly two hours for no reason. Scenes that seemed like they were added for no reason!
The plot, a man comes home to find a teacher of his dead, the cause is said to be flu. For some reason some Japanese dudes immediately want to provoke them saying their school is better, so Bruce's character goes and kicks all their behinds! Unfortunately, Bruce apparently had an even better teacher somewhere else because the rest of the students at his old school suck and get their butts handed to them by the same Japanese guys Bruce took on all by himself. Maybe the teacher from this school taught Bruce the culinary arts rather than the martial arts. Well Bruce could simply go get revenge, but instead hangs around and lets things escalate to insane degrees so that most of his school is dead while all the teachers at the rival school are dead and the ones left alive at his school are most likely dead due to bullet fire!
Bruce was an incredible martial artist, but his movies were not the best things ever. Too often, Bruce simply overpowers everyone to a ridiculous extreme and then maybe you get some dude who will get in a few licks like Chuck Norris did, only to be overpowered for 90% of the fight. The fact is, this is dull! I want to see a good back and forth fight, Bruce's movies are the equivalent of a super heel or face wrestler beating a jobber with no issues.
So we get to see some cool moves and we get to see a nice butt, but we also get to see a lot of nothing much going on and waiting for a fight. This film could have ended after a little over an hour and still told its tale, it just goes on too long. The whole Bruce as the phone repair guy made no sense as it did not seem all that hard to get into the place or find anything within so he did not really need to scope it out, in fact, if he had not done this most of his school would not be dead! Seriously, like four students are left and he acts like he is victorious when he gets the Chinese police to give his word they will leave the school alone. If this thing starred anyone other than Bruce it would not have a 7.4 rating I'm afraid.
The plot, a man comes home to find a teacher of his dead, the cause is said to be flu. For some reason some Japanese dudes immediately want to provoke them saying their school is better, so Bruce's character goes and kicks all their behinds! Unfortunately, Bruce apparently had an even better teacher somewhere else because the rest of the students at his old school suck and get their butts handed to them by the same Japanese guys Bruce took on all by himself. Maybe the teacher from this school taught Bruce the culinary arts rather than the martial arts. Well Bruce could simply go get revenge, but instead hangs around and lets things escalate to insane degrees so that most of his school is dead while all the teachers at the rival school are dead and the ones left alive at his school are most likely dead due to bullet fire!
Bruce was an incredible martial artist, but his movies were not the best things ever. Too often, Bruce simply overpowers everyone to a ridiculous extreme and then maybe you get some dude who will get in a few licks like Chuck Norris did, only to be overpowered for 90% of the fight. The fact is, this is dull! I want to see a good back and forth fight, Bruce's movies are the equivalent of a super heel or face wrestler beating a jobber with no issues.
So we get to see some cool moves and we get to see a nice butt, but we also get to see a lot of nothing much going on and waiting for a fight. This film could have ended after a little over an hour and still told its tale, it just goes on too long. The whole Bruce as the phone repair guy made no sense as it did not seem all that hard to get into the place or find anything within so he did not really need to scope it out, in fact, if he had not done this most of his school would not be dead! Seriously, like four students are left and he acts like he is victorious when he gets the Chinese police to give his word they will leave the school alone. If this thing starred anyone other than Bruce it would not have a 7.4 rating I'm afraid.