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Summary: Kung Fu Nirvana
Review: I'll keep this short and to the point--if you've never seen this movie, you CANNOT EVER TALK ABOUT KUNG FU MOVIES INTELLIGENTLY!! This one is a true masterpiece. Li switches fighting styles from scene to scene, the bad guy is a 7 foot bad-ass called the "killing machine"... I could go on forever about this movie. YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE TO BELIEVE IT. There.
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Summary: DAH!!! You can't say that about BRUCE LEE!!!! BLASPHEMY!!
Review: . . . . .but its true, this is an awesome movie. Where Chinese Connection had terrible dialogue, bad acting and great fight seens, this movie had pretty good acting, not bad dialogue and Awesome fight seens. I searched for Jet Li on a file sharing service and happened to download the first big fight seen of this movie. immediately bought Fist Of Legend to see the rest, and I am SO happy I did!!!!
Fans of Bruce Lee (as I am) will appreciate this remake which stayed true to the spirit of Bruce's intentions for his movies. Specifically relating to Chinese Connection, Bruce wanted to expose the racism the Chinese endured during colonial Japan; but also, in ALL of Bruce's Movies, was his desire and intention to break the molds of strict sytles and isolationism behind the various Martial Arts. Bruce said, "It doesn't matter if it is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, if it helps you learn it".
Jet Li Fans should love this movie for its simple storyline with fantastic fight seens. I loved this movie!!!!
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Summary: Fist of Legend - DVD note
Review: You can read details of this famous tale of the 1930's Japanese occupation of China in any of the other reviews listed above or below. "Fist of Legend", with Jet Li, is a cinematic monument to Chinese history. It also serves to pay tribute to Bruce Lee and his "Fist Of Legend". Just a note to purchasers though: the audio on the DVD version is DUBBED ENGLISH ONLY! If you prefer the natural voices of Jet Li and the other great actors in this film you will enjoy Mandarin or Cantonese with English subtitles on the VHS version. (VHS gets 5+ Stars!)
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Summary: Anyone can enjoy this
Review: Ok am gonna make this short and simple if you don't whach this movie and buy another on your missing out because this is unlike any fighting scenes i have ever seen besides WHEELS ON MEALS it loks as real as it can get so do yourself a favor and buy this instead of the other
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Summary: Watch It Again and Again
Review: At first, when I heard the name Jet Li, I thought it was just another Bruce Lee imitator, but after seeing Fist of Legend, I knew we had a true Wu Shu practitioner. His movements are very fluid, and the fight sequences are excellent. The final fight with Billy Chau is exceptional. I have over 100 Martial Arts movies and this one I watch again and again to give me motivation to go to the gym. Later, I bought, This is Kung Fu, which shows a young Jet Li in China at only 7 years of age! He trained with the finest Wu Shu trainers. The music has been criticized in comparison to the original music, but the music has a power to it -- a chi sound. I only wish I could get the subtitled version to see the original script.
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Summary: Best of the Best!
Review: Jet Li remakes Bruce Lee, and the result is great. It's a movie with both a) great martial arts and b) a social conscience, which is more than most kung-fu flicks can boast. Only rarely does amazing kung-fu action meet up with a solid story in the same film. Normally, this genre showcases a whole lot of kicking and crowing, with little else in the way of plot. But Fist of Legend, a remake of the 1972 Bruce Lee film, Fist of Fury, is a marvel to watch. The gravity-defying fight scenes are virtually non-stop, but what makes this film stand out from other kung-fu flicks, is that the story is pretty good. The strong point of this film is the cinematography of Derek Wan. The images are imbued with the rich, vibrant color which has become a hallmark of modern Chinese films. While this may seem to follow the typical you-killed-my-teacher-now-I-must-kill-you plot, Fist of Legend delves deeper. This film demonstrates some pretty impressive storytelling techniques. It has an interesting political sub-plot and by the end, the character of Chen Zhen is legendary. It's a fine movie.? Jet Li is in fine form, with minimal wirework and only subtle under cranking necessary to enhance his skills. All credits of all the terrific and pitch-perfect fight scene should be given to Matrix Action Director - Yuen Woo Ping. With the combination of Yuen's fights direction and Jet Li's presence and skills, notable fights were all over the place. One highlight is when Li takes on a whole class of Karate-Jap students, some of the overheads shots will remind many Matrix's fans, but in fact this was made almost 10 years ago is even more a classic. In some ways Fist of Legend is very much like the Matrix, especially of many philosopher's sayings like 'Japan is like an venous insect biting an elephant (China)' and a quote that I will always remember is eventually how and why Jet Li won his final fight against Billy Chow - 'If you learn to adapt, and to be fluent, then you will always be invincible'. The final fight, is probably as good as it can be and most likely the best fight scene ever filmed on camera. It was so well directed by Woo Ping that it push the already HK martial arts classic Fist of Legend to even greater heights. It also defy the fact that remakes are usually bad, but this remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, is as good as it can be and some even say it surpass the original, but no matter what the case is, Fist of Legend is just the best of the best and a must for all HK cinema starters and fans alike.?
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Summary: A stunning kung fu film with believable martial arts
Review: There is no wire-fu. The fighting scenes look less choreographed. The effects are more believable. If you pay attention, you will notice the student kicked by Chen Zen didn't fly backwards in summersaults - as they often did in other martial arts films - but flew back plainly and then fell on the ground facing down. This is the best effect - seemingly no effect. Something about Jet Li: He is the most skillful kung fu master. When he made his film debut in 1979's Shaolin Temple, he had already won numerous championships in China's martial art contests. He was only 16 at that time. In Shaolin Temple, which I highly recommend, he displayed his unbelievable skills in different styles with different weapons. Maybe he is not as funny as Jackie Chan, nor as handsome as Chow Yun-Fat (who is actually a layman of martial arts), but he is definitely the greatest martial artist. BTW, as great as Jet is, he is not the inventor of fighting with a belt. There is a traditional Chinese weapon called Jiu Jie Bian (Nine-Chain Whip), which looks like a long iron chain. Again, you can find an incredible display of that weapon by Jet in Shaolin Temple.
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Summary: A stunning kung fu film with believable martial arts
Review: There is no wire-fu. The fighting scenes look less choreographed. And the effects are more believable. If you pay attention, you will notice that the student kicked by Chen Zen didn't fly backwards in summersaults - as they often did in other martial arts films - but flew back plainly and then fell on the ground facing down. This is the best effect - seemingly no effect. Something about Jet Li: He is the most skillful kung fu master. When he made his film debut in 1979's Shaolin Temple, he had already won numerous championships in China's martial art contests. He was only 16 at that time. In Shaolin Temple, which I highly recommend, he displayed his unbelievable skills in different styles with different weapons. Maybe he is not as funny as Jackie Chan, nor as handsome as Chow Yun-Fat (who is actually a layman of martial arts), but he is definitely the greatest martial artist. BTW, as great as Jet is, he is not the inventor of fighting with a belt. There is a traditional Chinese weapon called Jiu Jie Bian (Nine-Chain Whip), which looks like a long iron chain. Again, you can find an incredible display of that weapon by Jet in Shaolin Temple.
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Summary: Bad decisions are out there.
Review: Buying this is one of them. However that's nothing compared to the bad decision the jokers at dimension made when they put together this dvd. Yeah, they thought, let's take this great movie, with fantastic choreography, interesting storyline etc, and ruin it by dubbing it in English so the oh so Japanese girlfriend sounds like a dumb American high school bimbo. Good idea champs. Great idea. Now, put the icing on the cake you've baked and don't bother putting the cantonese audio anywhere close. Sure, dvds can handle more than one audio track, but hey, who needs em? Oh yeah, let's cut three minutes from it too. Just for fun.
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Summary: Chan Zen. From Jing Wu? The Best
Review: He is the best just like he says. Non-stop action, no BS martial arts movie, a true classic.
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