Look. I was a big Bruce Lee fan back in the day, then I got into Jackie Chan, and realised that Bruce Lee is just, as we Brits say, "an 'ard barsted." Chan cares about cinema, and doesn't just want to walk into a room and knock everyone out - he wants to entertain the paying audience, and not just prove how macho he is.
Don't get me wrong. This film is okay, hence the 6 I've given it. Some of the fighting is very impressive - especially considering how much of a fool Lo Wei was, and considering the resources the cast and crew had, or lack thereof.
Overall, this is a very watchable movie. However, the film fails fatally in one respect - the mind-numbing stupidity of the good guys, in not realising soon enough that two members of their family die every single day, when they go to see the Big Boss. How daft can you get? To start off with, there are about ten members of the family, and cannon-fodder is the best way to describe these idiots, as they each, in turn, go and see the Big Boss to complain that, "yesterday, two of our brothers came to see you, and they haven't come home yet..." which leads to their deaths, and the follow-up enquiry from the next two brothers. What a load of balls! Apart from that, the film is okay. Bruce Lee is iconic, as usual, and the fighting is impressive in places. The fake blood looks like...well, like fake blood, I suppose, but that's no reason to dislike this film. I just wish some kind of plausibility had been given to the characters.
Don't get me wrong. This film is okay, hence the 6 I've given it. Some of the fighting is very impressive - especially considering how much of a fool Lo Wei was, and considering the resources the cast and crew had, or lack thereof.
Overall, this is a very watchable movie. However, the film fails fatally in one respect - the mind-numbing stupidity of the good guys, in not realising soon enough that two members of their family die every single day, when they go to see the Big Boss. How daft can you get? To start off with, there are about ten members of the family, and cannon-fodder is the best way to describe these idiots, as they each, in turn, go and see the Big Boss to complain that, "yesterday, two of our brothers came to see you, and they haven't come home yet..." which leads to their deaths, and the follow-up enquiry from the next two brothers. What a load of balls! Apart from that, the film is okay. Bruce Lee is iconic, as usual, and the fighting is impressive in places. The fake blood looks like...well, like fake blood, I suppose, but that's no reason to dislike this film. I just wish some kind of plausibility had been given to the characters.