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Young Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon

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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).

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.

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!

I unfortunately own this movie on VHS. It is the most HORRIBLE movie I have ever seen. It is a complete waste of life to watch a second of this movie. The information in the movie is conpletely wrong and the movie doesn't even make sense half the time. The movie is absolutely rediculous and is sure to induce a migraine to all who view it. So, I suppose if you enjoy popping pain relief tablets, this is the film for you.

This DVD offers long segments of footage from Bruce Lee's movies from his youth. Interesting to see for the first time, but not very entertaining to watch more than once. One of the reasons for this is because the audio is just horrendous. Bad English dub and it's hard to understand. The original Cantonese version (with optional English subtitles) should of been used instead of the dub. Picture quality is bad too, it has a yellow tint, probably needs to be remastered. Also, lot's of Bruce Li (most popular Bruce Lee immitator) footage scattered in between early Lee movie segments. Seems like the production team use the Bruce Li footage to maybe try and fool people into believing that they are actually seeing the real Bruce Lee in action. The extras are pretty good and probably the best part of the DVD. One extra has Lee's students talk about Lee's home and daily life, while filming Lee's hang outs with a camcorder. A good presentation of the Bruce Lee museum in China at Lee's ancestral home. Rare footage of Bruce Lee as Kato with the Green Hornet, and Batman (Adam West) at a Hollywood type tv show. Entertaining to see but, the picture quality and sound is horrible. Last extra, is a demonstration of Lee's power demonstrated by a possible JKD student. I wasn't too excited about this one. Overall, the DVD is good to see, but it may not be worthwhile for everyone. Needs work in quality and presentation.

This is for hardcore Bruce Lee fans only.
It has over an hour of childhood footage that is charming,but no action(the fights are supplied later by Bruce Li).
The English dubbing is excellent though.

Bonus materials are another story.
Audio commentary by Jesse Glover,Bruce Lee's first student is excellent.Audio qualty is not good though.
Mini docus on Lee's Seattle years and his ancestral home in China are different and absorbing.
Bruce Lee as Kato on the Milton Berle show is the stand out of this DVD.Amazing footage,but short.
I would recommend Death by Misadventure over this one.

This is a Bruce Lee fan's dream-over an hour of Bruce's earlier teen films.
Some of the material was shown on Real Bruce Lee.This is about 45 minutes more(which fleshes out the plots better).Clips from some of Bruce's major films are added.The only spoiler is Bruce Li,who fills in parts of Bruce's life.You can tell how sub-standard he is next to the real thing.
The Special features are outstanding.
Audio Commentary by Jesse Glover,Bruce's Seattle student.Great info and anecdotes.His analysis of Bruce is amazing.The audio quality is not good.You'll have to turn up the t.v. volume to hear it at all.
Seattle documentary-Jesse Glover went around Seattle and filmed the places he and Bruce trained and so forth.Most of the spots are torn down,but it gives you an idea of the period.It ends at Bruce's(and Brandon's)graves.Ed Hart,Bruce's other student is buried nearby.And so will Glover when his time comes he says.
Bruce Lee Museum-there is a museum in China where Bruce's family is from.An interesting journey in an area of Bruce's life few know about.
T.V. Demonstration-A jaw dropping unseen appearance by Kato on the Milton Berle show!Mind blowing!

A really great treasure trove of materials.Also check out Fist of Unicorn and Death by Misadventure.