Leofwine_draca FIST OF UNICORN is one of the earliest 'Bruceploitation' films, made while Bruce Lee was still alive! He turned up on set to help choreograph some action for his friend Little Unicorn, and a few seconds of behind-the-scenes footage were used in this film's ending. Bruce was furious and broke off contact with his old buddy as a result. After watching the whole film I can see why: this is a very low quality and predictable martial arts film which moves sluggishly from one situation to the next, never convincing or coming together. There are stuttering comedy guys, Japanese villains, and stalwart heroes and their families. Little Unicorn turns out to be a fleshy, average-looking guy with little discernable fighting talent. Wei Ping-Ao turns up as the usual villainous Japanese. The only real interest when watching this is seeing various stars of the 1980s in early roles. An impossibly young Yasuaki Kurata is a powerful opponent while the adorable Hoi Mang is the bald-headed kid. Mars shows up and has a stutter too for some reason. You even get to see Jackie Chan in the tiniest of cameos as a hired thug. Other than that, skip this one.

ckormos1 The title of the movie is "Fist of Unicorn" or better "Unicorn Palm" as on the copy I have. This movie never had anything to do with Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee had nothing to do with it and certainly is not in it. How the movie came to be associated with Bruce Lee no one knows the truth and no one needs to know. There is no association is the truth. So just watch the movie and enjoy it. It is as good as any and better than most martial arts movies made in 1973. There is a story in between the fights. The characters have at least the one required dimension and sometimes more. The fights are good. Each fight is appropriate for the reason behind the fight. There is a genuine effort for realism and minimal wires and trampolines. The lead Little Unicorn is not leading man material but he is an excellent stunt man. You get to see the real deal - Wang In Shik - in one of his few roles. He is still teaching hapkido today. Mars has a role and Jackie Chan is there but don't blink or you will miss him. Definitely worth two beers and 90 minutes of your valuable ass scratching time.

poe426 I'd waited decades to see this one, and I have to admit that I was a bit less than overwhelmed by it. Why, you ask, would an otherwise (more or less) sane individual want to see FIST OF UNICORN? That's right: to see Bruce Lee footage heretofore unseen. Unfortunately, the often highly touted footage herein ain't all it's been cracked up to be. There were four quick shots that I saw: one with Bruce Lee and Ah Lung smiling at each other, another of Lee with the child star of the movie, and two very quick fight choreography shots (in one of which, Lee is throw to the ground). The hype was just that. On the plus side, the sound fx and the fight scenes themselves are better than average for a kung fu film. See FIST OF UNICORN for the fight scenes choreographed by "the Galileo of the martial arts," but don't bother to check it out at all if you're hoping to see unseen footage of Bruce Lee in action; it simply isn't here.

Damon Foster Unicorn Chan, a childhood friend of Bruce Lee, completed this movie in 1973, right before Lee's death. To make our heroic, scrawny runt Unicorn Chan (FIST OF FURY, RETURN OF THE DRAGON, THE BLOOD HERO, BRUCE LEE: THE MAN THE MYTH) seem like a good fighter, he had his superstar pal Bruce Lee help choreograph the fights. As the story goes, Unicorn released the movie briefly under the title "Bruce Lee and I", to capitalize on his soon to be ex-friend's fame. I read somewhere that Lee felt betrayed, and never spoke to Unicorn again, for the rest of his life—which, admittedly, was only a few months. Other stories go so far as to say that Bruce Lee has a "walk on cameo", or that Lee appears in the outtakes. I watched this average chop sockey movie closely, and couldn't see any obvious Bruce Lee shots other than a still shot at the beginning.I did, however, spot a young Jackie Chan in a microscopic cameo as a background henchman (blink and you'll miss him), at least I think so. Regardless, as an early 1970s kung fu romp, it's okay. There are cool fights, but most of the better ones don't involve Unicorn Chan. There's some other hero, and a heroine who do their share of kicking, so the battles are fast-paced and enjoyable. Otherwise, it's so ultra-average and predictable, I'm at a loss for words.There's an interesting role reversal in the cast: Yasuaki Kurata plays the Chinese translator, and it's Wei Ping Ao who who plays an actual Japanese this time (with a Hitler mustache, no less), not the interpretor. It's another "good Chinese vs. bad Japanese movie", but also has some subplot about Buddhist acupuncture.