The Real Bruce Lee

1977
4.8| 1h33m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 13 January 1977
Producted By: Spectacular Trading Company
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The Real Bruce Lee is a martial arts documentary. It begins with a brief biography of Bruce Lee, and shows scenes from four of his childhood films, Bad Boy, Orphan Sam, Kid Cheung, and The Carnival, each sepia-toned and dubbed to English. Next, there is a three-minute highlight reel of Lee imitator Bruce Li. Finally, there is a feature-length film starring Lee imitator Dragon Lee, which is obviously modeled after Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Darkling_Zeist The Real Bruce Lee? well, not unless you are really forgiving and decidedly myopic...More like the three not-quite-Bruce Lee's!: Bruce Li, Dragon Lee and some scratchy archival footage of the great one. Ardent fans of 'Enter the Dragon' may want to look elsewhere for their authentic Bruce kicks; but if, like me, you have a yen for crass, cash-in Brucesploitation you will certainly find much kinetic lunacy to enjoy here. Glorious old school Kung Fu, with nary a plot to impede all the relentlessly clunky, chop sock action. Personally, I can't get enough of this micro-genre, and spurious titles aside, Dragon & Li were always watchable pugilists, and this (Ham)-Fists of fury is no exception.
Ichabod Crane Do not watch this movie in hopes of anything even remotely relevant to Bruce Lee. It is quite obvious that Bruce's name was slapped on to take advantage of his fame directly following his death.Skip ahead to the Dragon Lee movie, and as the film states, "the rest will be history." If you have ever seen any of the Mystery Science Theater films (and enjoyed them), this movie is for you.Everyone should have the opportunity to view this masterpiece. From the horrible camera work to the mismatched sound effects and terrible dubbing laughable fight choreography and attempt at a serious story, this movie holds nothing back.
dbborroughs Clips from Bruce Lee's films he made as a child are followed by a knock off kung fu story without Lee that really isn't very good.I picked this up in the dollar bin and for a buck it was worth it. The opening stuff of Bruce Lee as a child is interesting since you see Lee's charisma even at an early age. Unfortunately the effort to stretch the film into something more falls flat since the non-archival stuff is really dreadful. I found myself scanning through the material hoping for something more that was good but it never came. I paid a buck. It was worth the buck to see the early films. It's not worth any more than that since after the early films is a good deal of really bad material.
CooperCom An exciting and interesting documentary about Bruce Lee for about a 1/2 hour + a whole movie (unknown title) with a promising new fighter named Dragon Lee as the main attraction. (where is he today ?) The movie-part, as the documentary-part is a bit naive, like many of the martial art-movies was in the 70's, but it's real fun to watch. The effects in the movie is sometimes unrealistic, but you can see some real good martial arts here. I remember I saw this on video in 1984, when I was 15 years old, so I don't recommend this movie to audience who are over 20.