Darkling_Zeist The Real Bruce Lee? well, not unless you are really forgiving and decidedly myopic...More like the three not-quite-Bruce Lee's!: Bruce Li, Dragon Lee and some scratchy archival footage of the great one. Ardent fans of 'Enter the Dragon' may want to look elsewhere for their authentic Bruce kicks; but if, like me, you have a yen for crass, cash-in Brucesploitation you will certainly find much kinetic lunacy to enjoy here. Glorious old school Kung Fu, with nary a plot to impede all the relentlessly clunky, chop sock action. Personally, I can't get enough of this micro-genre, and spurious titles aside, Dragon & Li were always watchable pugilists, and this (Ham)-Fists of fury is no exception.

dbborroughs Clips from Bruce Lee's films he made as a child are followed by a knock off kung fu story without Lee that really isn't very good.I picked this up in the dollar bin and for a buck it was worth it. The opening stuff of Bruce Lee as a child is interesting since you see Lee's charisma even at an early age. Unfortunately the effort to stretch the film into something more falls flat since the non-archival stuff is really dreadful. I found myself scanning through the material hoping for something more that was good but it never came. I paid a buck. It was worth the buck to see the early films. It's not worth any more than that since after the early films is a good deal of really bad material.

InjunNose There's very little of the "real Bruce Lee" in this film, its title notwithstanding. The brief clips of four of the movies he made as a Hong Kong child star ("Kid Cheung", "Bad Boy", "Carnival", and "Orphan Sam") are mildly interesting, but they don't really have anything to do with Lee's later career as a martial arts practitioner/teacher/writer and kung-fu film luminary. The rest of "The Real Bruce Lee" consists of a handful of clips of Bruce Li, the first and most watchable Lee impersonator, followed by a (way too) long mini-feature which the narrator calls 'The Ultimate Lee'. Said mini-feature stars Dragon Lee, a rather graceless Korean martial artist who was by far the LEAST adept of the three major Bruce Lee imitators! There are no credits for 'The Ultimate Lee', and I suspect that it is an edit of a longer film which has never been seen in its complete form in the United States. It appears to have been shot in Korea, rather than Hong Kong or Taiwan, and the fight choreography is--as in most Dragon Lee films--very clunky. The dubbing and sound effects are standard (which is to say terrible) for a low-budget chopsocky movie. The most laughable thing about 'The Ultimate Lee' is the narrator's claim that it was Bruce Lee's next scheduled project, and that Dragon Lee had to be brought in to replace him! Bruce Lee had already starred in "The Chinese Connection"; he wouldn't have gone anywhere near this sordid, clumsy little ripoff of his own classic film. Avoid.

CooperCom An exciting and interesting documentary about Bruce Lee for about a 1/2 hour + a whole movie (unknown title) with a promising new fighter named Dragon Lee as the main attraction. (where is he today ?) The movie-part, as the documentary-part is a bit naive, like many of the martial art-movies was in the 70's, but it's real fun to watch. The effects in the movie is sometimes unrealistic, but you can see some real good martial arts here. I remember I saw this on video in 1984, when I was 15 years old, so I don't recommend this movie to audience who are over 20.