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Summary: Buena Vista wasted this movie
Review: What the heck's wrong with Buena Vista getting the nerve to rescore, edit (sliced off a small portion of the ending), rewrite, and dub (and terribly dubbed at that) this masterpiece of a cultural film? The least they could have done was include the original version on the DVD. The only thing good about this DVD is the good clarity of the images. Disney needs to get their act together.
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Summary: Great Fight Scenes
Review: The fight scenes remind me of Matrix, but are much more elaborate and complex. Fun to watch, rewind, and watch again.
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Summary: Dimension dubbing team should be ashamed of themselves
Review: Let me start by saying the Chinese version of this film is my favorite movie of all time.Dimension's dubbing and the liberties they take with the orginal script is both shocking and tactless. North American viewers who watch this version only see about 70% of the actual script. The rest of the sub-plots are all lost (particularly with the cook and the Dizzy Star House) and the simplified story also leads you to believe that Chinese Wushu is just a poor imitation of Japanese Karate when in the original script both country's martial arts were put into a positive light. They can't even get the translation right at the end of the movie. The sign clearly reads,"Sick Men of Asia" and the dubbing has General Fujita pointing at his sign saying "I have a sign here that says 'Ching Wu is closed'." Either the editors were saying that the Japanese General was an illiterate moron or, more likely, the American dubbing team didn't even bother looking at the sign before they translated the story. You can buy this version, but my recommendation would be to watch it as a silent movie with the mute button on at all times. But you really are better off buying the VCD or VHS versions instead of this travesty.
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Summary: New Jet Li Fan!
Review: I became interested in Jet Li recently and found Fist of Legend was very enjoyable. I liked the fight scenes very much, even the one liners I thought were good. I hope to see much more of Jet Li in the future, he can make many of our current Martial Artists rethink their solid standings as our heros of screen.
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Summary: worth buying if you like HK action flicks
Review: I bought the laserdisc version about 4 years ago. It was subtitled but I prefer to watch a movie in it's original language. I recently purchased the DVD version just because of the better transfer. It did annoy me that they had to change some of the dialogue which made the Jet Li and the old Japanese master seem more aggressive than they were with the original dialogue and the ending in which they cut out telling the viewer the future of the Jing Wu school. Other than that the picture was great--way better than my old LD. Overall, it's worth buying, but I wish they had put the original version on the disc also.
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Summary: Fist of Legend-A+
Review: Although I've never seen the Bruce Lee original I have to say that this was one of the best Martial arts movie coming out of the orient. The fighting sequences are so well directed, nothing like you'd see in Van Damn or Segal films. Although I've seen several foreign Martial arts films this is my first purchase of one and my "Best Buy of the Year". When first seeing the film, I found myself rewinding several great fight scenes. Overall, You can't go wrong with this title.
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Summary: "This Is Good, But ....."
Review: Maybe it's a personal prejudice, but NOTHING will ever replace those wonderful masterpieces from Sir Run Run Shaw (those who know the name will understand). Problem is, Shaw Brothers studio apparently no longer operates. So, Jet Li et al can fill the gap well enough.
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Summary: A great movie, utterly ruined.
Review: I first saw this movie with the original soundtrack and with subtitles. I much prefered this, as in my opinion, dubbing sounds ridiculous and ruins the atmosphere in any movie. Its fair enough if some people prefer dubbing, but with todays DVD technology, it is perfectly possible to provide both. The producers of this movie, to my great disappointed, failed to do this, and ruined a great movie in the process. I don't understand this, because as far as I can tell, it would be cheaper not to pay actors to dub the movie. In any case they could have provided both. And they definitely should have left the music alone.
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Summary: Bruceish
Review: This movie is formated just like the Bruce Lee origionals. It has wonderful camera work, the fight seens are not for no reason, and it follows a tight plot.This movie is wonderful thanks to Jet Li, Actor and producer.
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Summary: A Legend Earned
Review: Jet Li's Fist of Legend is a successful remake of Bruce Lee's The Chinese Connection. While Jet is not the fluid and funky martial arts specimen that Bruce was, his more stoic style has it's own charm. Nevertheless, Jet does include some obvious references to Lee's fighting style that the cognoscente should recognize and appreciate. Fist of Legend also benefits from being one of the better looking Hong Kong films of recent times, as the print used for this DVD looks gorgeous. Frequently, even fairly new films show signs of fading and damage on the source materials, but that is fortunately not the case here. My one complaint in regards to the overall quality of the disc itself is that subtitles and an option for the original language soundtrack are not available. Now, as for the fight sequences themselves, they are all quite ably choreographed by the master, Yuen Woo Ping, who many will recall brought true Hong Kong flavor to last year's The Matrix. Two fights in particular that stand out, are the one's in which Jet Li battles a Japanese master while both are blindfolded, and the intense closing fight with the ever capable Billy Chau. If you've heard of Jet Li but have yet to take the plunge and exprerience his talent, Fist of Legend is the place to begin.
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