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Birth of the Dragon
The legendary movies that Bruce Lee became known for serve the background for a contemporary take called Birth Of The Dragon that is being set against the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco. It gets inspiration from the battle that created a legend from the classic and still controversial confrontation between a promising Bruce Lee and Wong Lack Man, the kung fu master.
20 February 1973, New York City, New York, USA
3 February 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
25 April 1976, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China
16 September 1977, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
30 May 1972, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
September 05, 2017
As cultural appropriation, it's a slap in the face to the very audience that might have been expected to see it.
September 02, 2017
...even the sporadic detours into Lee's exploits somehow manage to fall flat...
September 04, 2017
The lead actors are basically unknown to American audiences and so are easily accepted in their roles. This adds to the overall believability of the film.
September 11, 2017
If you like Bruce Lee, try to get Ng cast in a different biopic, but avoid this one like a one-inch punch.
September 04, 2017
Yep...the summer is ending.
August 25, 2017
How, this far into the 21st century, does a film like this get made? One that shunts Bruce Lee to the status of secondary character in a lazy and boringly familiar star-crossed romance?
September 10, 2017
Whatever the criticisms, Yu Xia's portrayal of Wong Jack Man makes the film well worth seeing.
August 27, 2017
There's no reason a movie in which Bruce Lee and Steve McQueen (er, "Steve McKee") duke it out with Chinatown gangsters in mid-1960s San Francisco has any business being this joyless and dull.
August 25, 2017
An inferior effort that fails to do justice to both its central character and provocative premise.
August 25, 2017
Ng does a fine job as Lee, but ... he doesn't capture the charisma and magnetism of Lee - understandable, since he was among the most charismatic and magnetic people on the planet.
August 25, 2017
Zippy, B-movie entertainment. It proves that zeroing in on a small but significant part of a famous person's story, and how it reflects on their life at large, can often make for a sturdier entertainment than the usual long-skim approach to the biopic.
August 25, 2017
It wants to be a character study, an explication of martial arts philosophy and an action picture ... But the film never really gets fully juiced until the climax ...
