Enter The Dragon: 2 Disc Special Edition
Thirty years following his untimely death, Bruce Lee remains the movies' supreme martial-arts star. His masterful final film Enter the Dragon stands the test of time as the most beloved martial-arts epic in film history. For its 30th anniversary, this heart-pounding adventure returns to DVD in a deluxe double-disc edition featuring several mesmerizing documentary extras that examine Lee's family life and incredible achievements, including Dragon producer Fred Weintraub's new retrospective on the making of this benchmark action movie, with newly discovered unseen vault footage of Lee in action. What a kick!
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The Unscene Punch - ShawnSwanky
The scenario is simple. A martial arts tournament. A remote island. The host, Han, a renegade Shaolin. His tournament? A cover for recruiting muscle to a cynical and cruel drug business. To expose Han, a CIA-like agency recruits a good Shaolin played by Bruce Lee. With the tournament as cover, he is to get on the island and look for incriminating evidence. Visiting his father before leaving, Lee suddenly discovers Han’s right-hand man had victimized his own family. His sister chose suicide rather than suffer a humiliating rape by his thugs. Now, our hero has a burning personal motive to fight Han. Yet violent revenge would dishonor the dead sister’s code. Can our hero keep his own violence within the rules? Or just for self defence? Or will the all-too human desire for justice reduce him to becoming an outlaw to the code? One no better than Han?
Bang! As our attention is glued left, the great fighter delivers a subtle knock-out from the right. The movie’s power is not in story, or style. And that is also the wrong place to look when evaluating this movie.
Due to limited space, see my full review on ShawnSwanky.com: http://www.shawnswanky.com/articles/reviews/enterTheDragon.htmlStill the greatest - Coconut_Willy
I am really not a martial arts movie fan but, like everybody else, when I saw my first Bruce Lee film in the early '70s (Way of the Dragon) I was blown away. The man had a presence rarely seen on the big screen. I gave 4 stars to this package as it is absolutely great. One would hope that all films would be treated in such a way when put to DVD. The movie itself is certainly not a piece of cinematographic achievement but it is highly entertaining. The storyline is quite ordinary but is well developed regardless of all the cliches that it may contain. The concept of a tournament has been remade many times but, as far as I know, this was the first time it was put to film in such a grand way. The cast is good enough doing the expected acting job with a simple dialogue. The sets and locations are great, the soundtrack is good as well as the camera work. The action scenes are just great. Finally, the movie is accompanied by an incredible amount of bonus material that is fascinating, whether you like the genre or not. Highly recommended.BRUCE LEE RULES - CaptainRhodes
This was one charismatic little man. Having spent numerous years away from viewing his films I recently decided to watch all that Bruce Lee offered on film. Fun times indeed. Heavily flawed were his films, yet to expect flawless when tossing in a Bruce Lee dvd would be foolish, no? TO sum up Bruce and his work quickly, all I have to say is he was the James Cagney of Martial Art movies. That's all.
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The Unscene Punch - ShawnSwanky
The scenario is simple. A martial arts tournament. A remote island. The host, Han, a renegade Shaolin. His tournament? A cover for recruiting muscle to a cynical and cruel drug business. To expose Han, a CIA-like agency recruits a good Shaolin played by Bruce ...Still the greatest - Coconut_Willy
I am really not a martial arts movie fan but, like everybody else, when I saw my first Bruce Lee film in the early '70s (Way of the Dragon) I was blown away. The man had a presence rarely seen on the big screen. I gave 4 stars to this package as it is absolutely ...BRUCE LEE RULES - CaptainRhodes
This was one charismatic little man. Having spent numerous years away from viewing his films I recently decided to watch all that Bruce Lee offered on film. Fun times indeed. Heavily flawed were his films, yet to expect flawless when tossing in a Bruce Lee ...