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Fist of Legend

Fist of Legend

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good overall movie
Review: Great movie in the shadows of Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury". This is a must have if you are a Jet Li fan. Intense fight choreography, and a good story makes this a collectable. I never considered Jet Li to be that good until I saw this film. Highly recommended!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fist Of Legend... lost in Dubbing...
Review: Jet Li stars in Fist Of Legend... the best martial arts film of al time... Subtitled of course. I used to enjoy dubbed better than subtitled because I wouldn't have to focus on the words and lose the action. I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS. I own the subtitled version and just got to see the Dubbed version. All the greatest lines are lost and the musical score supernaturally makes the end bad guy look weaker than Jet Li throughout the entire fight, and in the subtitled version thanks to the music, he seems invincible. When JEt fights the blindfolded master in the subtitled version... before and after the fight there is some incredible philosophy on martial arts and fighting... which was complaetly lost when it was dubbed over. I give the subtitled verion 5 stars and this one only three. THe music and the lines were destroyed and parts just made no sense. Still the best fighting I've ever seen... but if you actually want to see this movie... watch it subtitled.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: middle of the road
Review: well, if you're a Jet Li fan, it's worth getting; there are several good fight sequences and if you're interested only in the fight choreography, stop reading here and my rating would be a 3.5.

as noted by other reviewers, the dubbing is sub par and disappointingly, this DVD doesn't include tracks in Chinese.

the story itself pales in comparison to Bruce Lee's The Chinese Connection; Jet Li seems miscast for the role of Chen Zhen. by many accounts, Zhen was an unorthodox fighter and very hot tempered... a good fit for Bruce Lee but appeared disjointed when portrayed by Jet Li, who is at heart an extremely traditional martial artist.

oddly, Jet Li's first fight sequence at the school was, i thought, a very good intepretation but then his 'Zhen' became too reflective and composed.

the intensity of the character and the events is entirely missing in Fist of Legend -- missing as well is notable incident regarding the proclaimation of 'no dogs or Chinese allowed.' an integral signpost to the cultural legend of Chen Zhen.

interestingly enough, this version does give a popular alternative to Zhen's 'death' which is different than the one given in the Chinese Connection.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jet Li-The Man!
Review: I have been a big fan of Jet Li ever since seeing the Once Upon a Time in China films. After hearing and reading about Fist of Legend being a remake of Bruce Lee's classic Fist of Fury, I had some reservations about seeing it. However, after just watching it today, I was very pleased with the film. The fight scenes were well choreographed, as one would expect from a fight director like Yuen Woo Ping. As always, Jet Li was very impressive with his awesome martial arts skills. I truly feel that this is one of his best films and stands on its own in comparison to Fist of Fury. However, I wish that the DVD gave the option of being in its original Chinese Language with English subtitles. Nonetheless,I highly recommend this film to any Jet Li or martial arts film fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Jet Li is the man baby!
Review: This is one of the best martial arts movies that I have ever seen. I love this movie with a passion. The first time I saw it was on DVD with my friend. From there I knew that I had to have this for my own collection. Jet Li is half man and half amazing. The fighting scenes in this movie are great. He aso has several one-liners that are great. For instance, in one scene he is fighting a master. Jet Li changes his fighting style and the maser says "Huh? What style is that?" Jet Li replies "Don't worry I'll show it to you." and promply begins to kick some tail. I really love this movie. All of the fighting scenes are great and the story is just as good. I highly recommend this title.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who cares if it is dubbed
Review: Ok, this film was a blast. Head and shoulders above many other films coming out of Hong Kong, especially as it relates to the film quality (good colors) and fighting sequences.

Those who complain that dubbing ruined the film make me laugh. It's like saying "the acting ruined a great porno." Who cares--Jet Li rocked!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Completely Awesome
Review: This Is The Best Jet Li Flic I've Seen and I can't wait to get it in DVD. The Music is good, and the Action is incredible for a low budget film. I reccomend any martial art movie fan to not only see it but buy it. It's tight.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It a sad day
Review: A year or so ago a friend of mine took me to see this flik in New York. I was utterly amazed at the richness of the story and the wonderful martial arts sequences. So ofcourse I bought this one as soon as it came out. I must say it is truly amazing that americans can once again take a good movie and with a little dubbing make it an abomination. There are parts that are omitted from the original, certain inflections are missing when dubbed, trash. If you never saw the original release then hey go for it, you may like this movie. But if you saw the original, you'll only cry yourself to sleep with this one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Why the HELL did you ruin this movie
Review: I was in the airport when I was walking by one of the restaurants inside and saw Fist of Legend on the TV. I had to stop and watch Jet Li for at least one fight scene. Imagine my shock when I realized they have dubbed the movie in English. Here is some advice if you are going to dub a movie, do it right. Is it so hard to have them at least say the same things. People start asking me what my problem. This is a great movie. I usually watch it about 3 times a week. If you are going to buy Fist of Legend don't buy the dubbed in English version.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wonderful film - in Chinese
Review: This is my favourite Jet Li film - in the original language version. Unfortunately, Dimension has decided to provide only the English dubbed version on the DVD, which suffers from woefully bad voice acting; this unfortunately lowers the quality of the acting as well, which is *superb* in the original language version.

With this in mind, I strongly recommend the original-language VHS version, and if you (like me) enjoy not seeing films ruined by some production house's dub-jobs, please join me in writing to Dimension for an original-language cut of this DVD. =)


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