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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good For A Bruce Li Flick...BUT..., January 31, 2005
Considering how notorious my man Bruce Li is for starring in B-F grade BRUCEploitation flicks, the Young Bruce Lee impressed me for a good 85-90% of the film. It was unique in that it dramatized Bruce Lee's relationship with 2 other central characters from childhood to adulthood, and contrary to some other posts, I found the action/fight sequences to be impressive on Bruce Li's part, considering that there are so many other BAD movies he's starred in, in which he'd take beatings of 'Passion of the Christ' proportions before mounting a defense. While I felt that he did a much better job at portraying Bruce Lee's character this time around, and while there was mention of his early film career, wife and kids,etc...the movie falls off at the end in that one moment Bruce Lee is streetfighting in the mountains somewhere with a group of martial artists avenging the beatdown of one of there comrades, Bruce wins, and then after a long hiatus, the film jumps to his childhood friend holding a paper announcing Lee's untimely death. And what REALLY made me want to sidekick a hole in my TV screen was the fact that they alleged that Lee's wife collapsed and DIED at the funeral and that both bodies were flown to Seattle for burial. WRONG,WRONG,WRONG...Linda Lee is alive and well! TERRIBLE! But while I would recommend this movie a million times over Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story(BOO!), I strongly recommend Chinese Connection II over the Young Bruce Lee, because in my opinion it's Bruce Li's greatest performance hands down(it's a REAL sequel to Bruce Lee's Chines Connection in which he plays the brother of Lee's character and is pretty much being Lee Roy Lung...being himself as opposed to attempting to be another Bruce Lee).
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
What are u guys talking about??????????, November 1, 2003
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This review is from: Young Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon (DVD)
The Young Bruce Lee is nothing more than a ridiculous movies made by Bruce Li, the phony Bruce Lee 'wannabee.' The only real Bruce Lee footage in this film are some still shots of Bruce Lee in his coffin at the end of this terrible movie. How the hell can you all post your comments about this film?? There is no footage of Bruce Lee childhood movies, etc... Is there another version of The Young Bruce Lee which actually contains the footage mentioned in the reviews posted on this page? This is nothing but false advertising. I purchased this DVD based on the several reviews posted on Amazon.com by individuals who supposedly own this product. If Amazon.com cannot check the validity of reviews that it posts, I guess it's safe to say that Amazon.com has lost me as a customer.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Young Bruce Lee, November 11, 2010
I purchased this dvd for Yang Sze but unfortunately he was only in one 5 minute seen. The good news is this is Bruce le my favorite of the Bruce Lee look alikes.Let's face it this dvd is for the dudes & gals that grew up in the Bruce Lee era & the chop socky era that followed!Down town & inner city theaters were primarily where you could find these movies!Like the scenes from the movie Taxi Driver where there's a theater every block.
Down town San Diego once had that feelig with lots of theaters spread out some open all night long! Now you would not recognize it! Completely over hauled!
Anyway we were young & in the arts do to Bruce & we always ventured out to see these movies which most of us would just laugh but always had a good time! So these chop socky flicks bring back a fun era from the early 70's to 80's. When Bruce Lee was alive he did not want his first three films released to the states because he knew American audiences would not like these movies. (Too Corney) was his words! When he died the rights were released in order to cash in on what was left! That is why way of the dragon was called Return of the dragon! That was the first of the 3 movies to be released in the states! Fist of fury was 2nd & chinese connection was last to be released. Had Bruce lived we would of never seen any of those 3 movies! We would of had a lot more of the Enter the Dragon or Jacky Chan flicks. From what Joe Louis (Karate) stated Bruce wanted to do Comedy! Maybe that's why Way of the dragon was a comedy (da!) He produced & directed! Ok true fans of all 70's kung fu check this movie out & see Yang Sze lookin pretty cool for 5 minutes!
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