Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

1993

Action / Biography / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 32787 32.8K

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Plot summary

This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by HotToastyRag 8 / 10

What a sweet tribute

What a sweet tribute to icon Bruce Lee. I saw the bonus beginning on the DVD version, in which Lee's widow narrates a little message about the movie, set against footage and photos of the real man. She correctly states that the biopic isn't just to celebrate the martial artist, the man, or the philosopher, but instead all of those attributes. I went into the movie not knowing anything about him, except that he died young and made Enter the Dragon, so I was enormously entertained and enlightened. If I'd already read some biographies or documentaries, I might have found it predictable, but every bit of information was new to me.

Jason Scott Lee (no relation) amazingly enough didn't have any martial arts training prior to the film. Instead, he was a dancer, and the studio felt his controlled movements and dedication to his body would make a great fit. After tons of training, he looked wonderful! With every step and turn of his head, you can tell he's completely aware of the muscles in his body. Lauren Holly plays his love interest, whom he meets while teaching a martial arts class at college. You'll also see Ric Young as his father, Robert Wagner as a television producer, Sterling Macer Jr. As one of his first students, Michael Learned as his standoffish mother-in-law, and Nancy Kwan as one of his first employers. Nancy worked with the real Bruce Lee in the late '60s, so her cameo is pretty cute.

With a tearjerker theme that has subsequently been used in numerous trailers, this tv biopic is undoubtedly sugarcoated. Nothing bad happens, but isn't that nice to see for a change? I really enjoyed it, and I also appreciated all the work that went into it.

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 8 / 10

I'm no bastard. I'm Bruce Lee!

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is directed by Rob Cohen who also co-adapts the screenplay with John Raffo and Edward Khmara. It stars Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner and Michael Learned. Music is by Randy Edelman and cinematography by David Eggby.

Based on Bruce Lee: The Man I Only Knew by Linda Lee Caldwell (Bruce Lee's widow), "Dragon" is more tribute movie than biography. A big success on release, it's a film that still causes some consternation with a number of Bruce Lee fans. The reasoning is because in true Hollywood style it tinkers with facts, misses out other notable points and has some time line issues. Yet if you can accept it as a "painted always in a positive light" homage piece more than a definitive biography? Then you find the essence of the man and his short life is there in glorious splendour.

In many ways it's an inspiring tale of a complex man, while it also plays out as a wonderful love story between two people of a different race making it work at a time when such a thing was frowned upon by the ignorant. Lee's skills as an artist and a human being are firmly portrayed, with Jason Scott Lee (no relation) proving to be admirable in his depiction of such. The fights are very well choreographed and perfectly OTT, but crucially they do not come at a cost to the story, it's the narrative that shines through even as the action appeases the action hungry hoards. While rightly there's iconography unbound, naturally.

The production value is high as regards quality of colour photography, set and costume design and recreations of famous moments. Edelman's score is a heart swelling and heroic scorcher that avoids over dosing on Oriental strains, Cohen moves it along at a nice clip and Holly is fabulous in her sympathetic portrayal of Bruce's wife. It's not all perfect, though. Away from the issues the hard core Lee fans have, the Demon that haunts the Lee family dreams is more funny than scary and the finale feels rushed and not dramatically fulfilling. It's fair that Lee's wife voices over the end and tells us it's about celebrating his life, but his death remains a key issue and skipping over it is a mistake.

In the year of the film's release, the Lee's first child, Brandon, would be killed whilst filming The Crow, aged 28. Thus as Linda Lee Caldwell helped craft a film about a husband who died aged just 32, she lost her son. There is added poignancy in that, it's something that undeniably makes Dragon even more of a moving experience, but rest assured, as a film tribute to Bruce Lee, it earns every one of its emotional and thoughtful beats. 8/10

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 7 / 10

Good as a movie, not really as a biography.

The story told in the movie is really excellent and entertaining. However it feels more like a story based on the life of Bruce Lee rather then an actual biopic of his life.

Jason Scott Lee perfectly plays Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee. Not only the way he plays Lee is impressive but also his fighting skills.

The music by Randy Edelman was also surprising good.

There are way too many fictitious and untrue things added in the movie to be considered a fair biography. But does it really matter for the movie? It's like "Ed Wood" that was also filled with altered things and false truths but still it was a movie that told us the story of an unique character and what drove him. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" isn't much different in that way. OK it's not completely fair to compare this movie to "Ed Wood" since that was a far superior movie to "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (what a horrible title by the way).

The fight sequence are probably the best thing about the movie and they were highly entertaining, although very hard to believe that they actually really happened that way.

It's a good entertaining movie but if you want to get to know more about Bruce Lee this isn't the best material for you to start with.

7/10

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