Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993
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- Feeling like a cheap, quickie effort, this story of Bruce Lee 's early days has some good moments, but it makes the fatal mistake of inserting a white character to drive the plot and get the girl. The martial arts scenes aren't uniformly terrible; they're blessed with choreography by the great Corey Yuen.
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Aug 25, 2017 · Rated: 2/5 Feb 23, 2018 Full Review Leigh Monson Substream Magazine The key to a strong punch is the force and willingness to follow through, but Birth of the Dragon is so limp that it...
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Aug 25, 2017 · A preposterous screenwriting-for-dummies exercise directed with all the flare of a mid-‘90s tourism video, Nolfi decides the best way to get to know subjects Bruce Lee and his legendary one-time rival Wong Jack Man is through a bland white guy and his romantic troubles. You know ... the important stuff.
- Bruce Lee barely gets the spotlight in the movie about his most important fight.
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By Blair Marnell
Updated: Aug 25, 2017 5:37 pm
Posted: Aug 25, 2017 1:00 am
Warning: there are minor spoilers ahead for Birth of the Dragon.
Birth of the Dragon is not the Bruce Lee biopic you’ve been waiting for, as strong performances and martial arts action by Philip Ng and Xia Yu are wasted on a movie that had too little faith in the real story.
In 1965, martial arts icons Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man had a private match away from the public that became legendary, even though neither man agreed upon the outcome. Director George Nolfi’s Birth of the Dragon is very loosely inspired by that chapter of their history. But the movie itself is being marketed in a way that misrepresents the finished film. If we were to judge by the posters of Philip Ng as Lee, it would be easy to believe that this is a Bruce Lee biopic. That’s not what this is, and the movie treats Lee as if he is only the third most important character in his own story.
Birth of the Dragon’s filmmakers lacked the faith in their movie to ever make it truly about Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man. Allowing McKee to steal the focus of the story diminished the movie as a whole, which already had two perfectly cast leads in Ng and Yu. In terms of production, the film was more impressive than the ‘70s kung fu movies it emulat...
Aug 25, 2017 · Directed by George Nolfi. Action, Biography, Drama. PG-13. 1h 35m. By Glenn Kenny. Aug. 25, 2017. 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版. The milieu from which Bruce Lee emerged to become the world’s first martial-arts...
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Cheap-looking, whitewashed version of Bruce Lee's story. Read Common Sense Media's Birth of the Dragon review, age rating, and parents guide.
- George Nolfi
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Philip Wan-Lung Ng, Xia Yu, Billy Magnussen
Aug 24, 2017 · Rated PG-13, 89 minutes. George Nolfi's fictionalized drama 'Birth of the Dragon' concerns the real-life martial arts bout between a young Bruce Lee and Shaolin master Wong Jack Man.
