ShadowTek ShadowTek here...Well.. if you want a fun movie to watch.. its a great and entertaining movie.. it really is.. if you want to watch a biography about Bruce Lee.. 99.9% of this film is fake and 100% of the film is an insult to his legacy.. cause almost NOTHING in this film is true... 1. There was never a fight with Navy guys as the movie shows in the beginning..2. As above that was not the reason he left.3. The Lee family was RICH.. and Bruce was far from an only child. So that whole "saved up money" and the "cops were called so you have to go" crap was just that... crap.4. He did work at a restaurant.. but the fight in the movie never happened. The loan never happened.5. The whole racist thing in college never happened. That was propagated by among others the Lee family.6. The stop teaching white people and black people is fake.. thus the whole underground fight stuff is 100% fake.7. Um. Bruce hurt his back weightlifting.. not in some secret underground fight.8. There was never a re-match in some ring.. in fact as the reason for that rematch never happened.. well.. do the math.. He did attend that event mentioned however... he demonstrated his 1-inch punch and his one and two finger pushups.. that video is all over the place.. yes you can find it online.. lots of versions of it.9. He never wrote or published a book.. his wife did from notes he made after his death.10. The fight on the set of the Big Boss movie (I think that was the movie set in they were saying took place) never happened.. not in that or any other movie.11. The whole chasing Bruce down scene to make movies in Hong Kong.. see a pattern here? Never happened.10. The entire movie is 100% fiction.. literally NOTHING in the movie happened..In other words.. the entire movie is fake.. nothing in the movie actually happened... BUT.. if you look at the life of Bruce Lee from an alternate universe of what COULD have happened.. well.. it is a great movie in that aspect :)ShadowTek

Luke Skywalker Bruce Lee was an amazing man and Jason Scott Lee was pretty convincing as Bruce even though he doesn't really resemble Bruce. He's a little bigger than Bruce and maybe even a little darker (Bruce was part German). His personality is very similar to Bruce even his voice. Besides his similar mannerisms to Bruce, the movie dramatizes the struggles Bruce Lee had to deal with such as racism. I don't know how much of the drama from the film actually happened in real life, but it seems so real that you really feel sorry for him. I know most of the film was made up and even the synopses about the film says loosely based on Bruce.Some of the reviews I've been reading seems kind of overly critical and harsh. I have to agree that the fight scenes for example were too long considering Bruce Lee's philosophy about fighting was to simplify and use the most effective way to come out of a fight. Bruce Lee after all was a street fighter. He started training when he was 13 and not as a young kid because he kept getting beat up in street fights as a teenager. Also, Bruce Lee was an actor since he was an infant. His dad used him in one of his plays. There were many black and white films of Bruce as a kid. So Bruce Lee was a child star and the film focuses more on his martial art abilities for some reason (I guess for Hollywood glamor). Besides ignoring Bruce as an actor as a young kid, I remember reading about his frustration when he was an instructor teaching his martial art style Jeet Kune Do. His students thought there was an ultimate technique but he tried to explain to his students there is no ultimate technique and that you are the one to figure things out for yourself. His students didn't understand it and at one point he closed his schools.Even though this film is a made up story about Bruce, this isn't the only biopic that's not accurate. Many biopic films focus more on the dramatization than actual events for artistic reasons. Filmmakers are artists as well remember. The soundtrack to this film is excellent. I enjoyed this film simply for the fact Bruce Lee was one of a kind man besides just a martial artist. He is such an influential icon that I can't imagine the movies we watch these days (especially with actions films) would've become without him.

poe426 Happening across the book THE TAO OF BRUCE LEE by Davis Miller brought back some fond memories: memories of seeing THE GREEN HORNET teleseries when it first aired, and being amazed by The Hornet's sidekick, Kato, as he took out villain after villain with what seemed to be almost supernatural abilities (but which clearly were NOT: the punches and kicks had a BELIEVABILITY about them, a verisimilitude lacking in most television and motion picture slugfests); memories of the hot summer days, not very many years later, spent slouched down in my seat watching this same Human Dynamo dispatch an assortment of villains up on The Big Screen, punctuating each kick and punch with an ear-splitting scream or his trademark howl. "Soon I was lost in the thunder," writes Miller. "I'd bathe in dreams and in lightning." Much has been made of Bruce Lee's alleged fighting ability; even Miller seems to climb atop the fence by the end of his book. (He recounts discussions with another martial artist, full contact heavyweight karate champion Joe Lewis, that would suggest another book might be a good idea: if anyone's been overlooked long enough, it's Joe Lewis- and of Lewis's ring skills there's little doubt: I saw him fight twice, and he was MOST impressive, even against much bigger opponents. I read somewhere that Bruce Lee himself once referred to Lewis as "the greatest fighter on the face of the Earth." How's THAT for an endorsement?) This movie, however, is about as true to life as any of the other exploitation movies that literally followed in his wake. Lee was all too human (as his death attests) and had his flaws (unlike the rest of us): in the book HONG KONG BABYLON, it's revealed that the woman in whose bed his body was found was the girlfriend of a Triad boss. But the fact remains that Bruce Lee was- and IS- an inspiration to millions- myself included. This movie does him a great disservice.

Dan Pham Lost track of how many times I have seen this movie. A multitude of times growing up and is still one of my favorites.Jason Scott Lee does an amazing job of portraying Bruce Lee. An epic tail, great story, the hardships, and love, making this a great all around film.Being an Asian male born and raised in the western world may be one of the reasons I have a certain connection to the film more than others but I can't see why others wouldn't be able to relate.None the less, this movie has given me lots of inspiration, and recommend this film for anyone else who is seeking some great vision or just wondering who Bruce Lee was; because this film does an excellent job of displaying his life.