'Enter The Dragon' is essential viewing for all 1970s buffs. I also love Han, the tongue-in-cheek 'Dr No' inspired villain played by Kien Shih. After the enormous success of 'Enter The Dragon' director Robert Clouse made 'Black Belt Jones' with him, another 70s kung fu classic, but Kelly never really fulfilled his potential, and instead made cheesy but fun b-grade vehicles like 'Black Samurai' and 'Black Belt Jones 2'.
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You don't need any other reason to watch this movie than Bruce Lee, but having John Saxon ('Planet Of Blood', 'Tenebrae') co-star is an added treat, and Jim Kelly is super cool. Whenever Lee is on the screen you can't take your eyes off him - he's that good. Bruce Lee expert John Little tracks down the real world locations of some of Lees most iconic action scenes, largely unchanged nearly 50 years later. It seems certain that he would have become a superstar, bigger than Jackie Chan (who incidentally has a brief cameo here) is today. Bruce Lee vs Sammo Hung in the opening scene of Enter the Dragon.A classic fight scene Bruce's presence and charisma is unequaled in the world of martial a. He died unexpectedly just weeks before it premiered in America. Handsome and charismatic, this movie was to be his introduction to mainstream Hollywood audiences. Lee is without a doubt the greatest ku fu fighter to step in front of a movie camera. The only other one I've seen that comes close is 'Iron Monkey', but as good as it was, it obviously didn't have the one thing that makes this movie legendary - Bruce Lee. A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.
'Enter The Dragon' has them and then some! I'm not sure whether I'd describe it as "the greatest martial arts movie ever made" (as many people do), but it's certainly one of the most entertaining I've ever seen. The Way of the Dragon (1972) Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Nora Miao. Matthew Polly is the author of Bruce Lee: A Life and two other books about the martial arts, American Shaolin and. Let's face it this is a kung fu movie, and what the audience wants is exciting fight scenes. Enter the Dragon is the movie that cemented Lee’s legacy, in film and beyond. The plot is simplistic, the acting is variable, but the action and the LOOK of it make it an all time classic. Like 'The Omega Man' this movie is one that I find difficult to be objective about. Maybe only Bond (Sean Connery Bond!) and Charlton Heston as 'The Omega Man' came close. As a pre-teen Bruce Lee was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. 'Enter The Dragon' was a massive part of my childhood back in the 1970s.
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