I heard he prepared for a full year before filming and it's probably true, he, at least, does his best to give Bruce a run for his money. I can't help but comment on Danny Chan, he looks almost like he's a clone of Bruce Lee. You can actually see one extra playing in almost all 50 episodes (a doctor, a pupil of Bruce Lee, a high school colleague of Bruce, then a university colleague of Bruce, dining at most of the restaurants Bruce dines etc.) it's annoyingly obvious they didn't bother to think it all out, after all, it's the life of Bruce Lee, cultural icon and hero to the Chinese people. The editing is amateurish, the cinematography is amateurish, the script is unbelievably amateurish and of course, most of the acting is amateurish. " Bruce Leeįirst of all, IMDb users and Bruce Lee fans must know that this is truly a very cheap production.
Reviewed by aura772 8 / 10 "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. Yet another in a long line of missed opportunities.
Reality checks are few and far between in the 3 hour version of this 50-part series that I saw (most of what's here seems to have been taken directly from DRAGON without any regard whatsoever for the facts as we've been led to believe them over the past 40 years). Wisely incorporating wirework and cgi into his partial arts routine(s), he proceeds to get the stuffing beat out of him by a succession of martial artists so he can learn (and then un-learn) all that they have to offer. Not to worry, though: our parapalegic hero is soon up and at 'em again. Unfortunately, THE LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE is little more than a long (VERY long), drawn out remake of DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY the producers even go so far as to have "Lee" taken out exactly as he was in DRAGON (attacked from behind, resulting in a spinal injury). Welcome to The Legend Of Bruce Lee.īecause the cover box listed Bruce Lee's strikingly beautiful daughter, Shannon, as "executive producer," I snatched up a copy of THE LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE (which had been mentioned in the documentary HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD). In this spectacularly choreographed epic, produced by Bruce's daughter, Shannon Lee, you can re-live the legend's entire astounding life story.
From his days surviving brutal street fights in 1950s Hong Kong to his meteoric rise to fame as a martial arts screen icon, through to his tragic and mysterious death at the age of 32 his story has never before been told so faithfully or so completely. The Legend Of Bruce Lee will take you on an incredible journey into the life of a man who knew no boundaries. When Bruce Lee was born on the 27th of November 1940 in San Francisco's Chinatown, little did his parents know that their infant son would go on to become the greatest martial arts icon that the world had ever seen. EXPLOSIVE, BRUTAL AND ACTION-PACKED - THIS IS THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF A MARTIAL ARTS LEGEND. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering - Bruce Lee.