Leofwine_draca Billed as an exploration of Bruce Lee's early life, YOUNG BRUCE LEE is a film that's been falsely advertised from the outset. Cine Asia marketed it as an all-action fighting-flick, with a fight-packed trailer and explosive advertising. In actual fact, the makers of this film aren't interested in the action at all, instead focusing on human drama throughout. This is a film that explores Bruce's love life and the lives of his friends and associates in 1950s Hong Kong.Unfortunately, it's also extraordinarily dull, and the distinct lack of action makes it a real chore to watch. It soon becomes apparent that Bruce's early life just wasn't very interesting and certainly not worthy of a film; the interest lies in what happens when he went to America, which is conveniently where this film ends. In addition, the filmmakers strive to portray him as a pacifist, and he sustains at least two beatings during the course of the movie; hardly the champion and kung fu star of later years.This is a tough film to like, because the action that takes place is just so dull. Bruce comes across as arrogant and unlikeable, and the decision to cast an unknown Arabic-looking actor in the part was a bad one. Okay, so he sometimes looks a bit like the star at the right angle, but it becomes painfully obvious that he has no fighting ability and he has little acting ability, either. Tony Leung is brought in for heavyweight support as Bruce's father, but his role is a completely extraneous one.The film does pick up towards the climax, but the fights are still disappointing and in the high-rise finish Bruce has little to do. I mean, who wants to watch a film about Bruce Lee for the romance? The whole setup was misjudged from the very beginning, leaving this a crushing bore and huge disappointment.

mmushrm Recently watched this on a trans pacific flight.It is not a bad movie and the pacing was pretty good, the 2hours went by without me noticing. The pacing was good and the story was interesting. Visually it is very good. It was well shot and it actually gave me some insight into the era my father was growing up in (same time50-60s in Asia). So I will say i like this movie.However if i was to analyze this movie, I would say the makers are confused into what genre of movie to make. It is definitely NOT a documentary as I am pretty sure artistic license is taken. But how do you make a Bruce Lee movie without the action? So action scenes are thrown in, this however makes the movie go into the realms of "fantasy". I am pretty sure pre Hollywood Bruce got into fights but..running through rooftops and scaling scaffolding? the fight in the warehouse?.I guess thats the problem with making a Bruce Lee story for the cinemas. It has to be interesting enough to attract investors and movie goers so the rather long and probably fictionalized action scenes are thrown in.Good movie but I think the book would be better.

ironmonky-962-225919 This film was captured very artistically for a biography. I was very surprised to have seen this movie turn out the way it did, the artistic quality was done very well, as well as the storyline. It's definitely worth watching, and if you're a Bruce Lee fan, then you really should watch this. A lot of people don't know the life before he moved to America, and here you learn a lot about his life that you never see. This movie is not really an action film. There's not a lot of fight scenes, but the ones that are there play significant roles to the film. So I'd suggest you watch this with the mindset of watching a great story as opposed to waiting for action to happen.

hwoarang45 Just came back from cinema, i was totally surprise and awed by this movie. Honestly i didn't have much expectation at first, because there is not much martial artist/actors to backup the cast list, so i thought this gonna be a flop like Legend of Yip man. But it turn out it was much of a biography of the famous star than we know of so well ,but we haven't really seen or heard upon the story telling regarding his life hood growing up in a large family at a nostalgic times of Hong Kong. The narrations pacing was remarkable, while the story unfolds at a very decent pace for a movie running over of 2hour 15min.I have to be honest, i was really surprise and somewhat skeptic it was an actual Hong Kong production in the first place, where actors ,script and visual art has surpass anything i seen so far in Hong Kong movie standards. Well i was literary awe by the visual art & style of the camera works. Props and scenery brings such nostalgic memories to the viewers, they manage to brings the audiences back to the age of innocent and wonders or yesteryears. Camera works is top notch, Lomo filter, works superb at moments of romance and brings so much emotions and story to the scenes. I felt like i was watching an MTV from a tasteful Taiwanese love song.To conclude my experience, if u seek action ,most will be disappointed as the fight scene its done visually stylish using steady cam and action pan, but never really shows the techniques of the famous wing chun system. That being said, this movie never pretends to be an action flick to begin with, its a stylish ,romantic and touching story about the world re-known actor, martial artist, philosopher , friend and finally a inspiring 2Nd elder brothers of a family which we all love so much and yet known so little about. Bravo! i'm booking my second viewing now.