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Summary: Great Movie, but dubbing sucks!
Review: This is one of the best Jet Li movies I have seen (and I have seen many). The problem is that it only has the English dubbed audio track. This dubbing sucks. I can't believe how much it ruins the movie just because of the audio. The action is fantastic but if you can't sit through the rest of the movie it makes it hard to get to those scenes. I can't believe that anyone would make a DVD with only one audio track (not the original) these days. How difficult could it be to include the Chinese/Japanese audio and some English subtitles. This may sound like I am just whining, but I am truely disappointed with this DVD just because of the dubbing.
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Summary: Worthy Remake.
Review: Although the storyline is not a great one - it certainly makes an effort - unlike some of the HK martial arts movies, which are just looking for an excuse to get the action on. You can't go past Jet Li for great martial arts action. The fight scenes are just amazing, and the movie has some wonderful camera angles and direction. Of course dubbing will be atrocious. Chinese and English are two very different languages. For full effect, see the subtitled version of this movie. It's much less annoying, and the expressions and tone of voice of the characters is much more believable.
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Summary: My favorite MA movie!
Review: Jet Li rocks the house and the street and the field in this one. The action alone is worth the price but the story is romantic. How many heroes of macho martial arts movies would give up everything, including avenging his master's death, to live in a shack with the woman he loves?
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Summary: classic jet li movie
Review: Fist of legend is a fantasic remake of bruce lees fist of fury. The action in the film is very fast paced, especially the fight in the japanese dojo just as in bruce lees movie. This is a must buy if you like jet li or even if you are even only slightly into martial arts. This film draws away from the 'once upon a time in china' fantasy style concentrating on a more direct brutal style that bruce lee first made famous. Jet steps into character very well in this film. portraying a character that looks truly dynamic on screen
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Summary: Simply Great!
Review: This is one of the best martial arts films to come out in the last five years. Jet Li is incredible! And the fight scenes are well choreographed and filmed. Buy it, trust me, this is no "Crouching Boredom, Hidden Movie"..
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Summary: Shadows of Bruce
Review: There are way too many reviews for this movie, but one thing that most didn't mention is the Jeet Kune Do/Bruce Lee-ish element to the fighting. Jet-Li really seemed to have set out to move like Lee in this movie, and I was impressed by how well he pulled that off. Yes, there's a lot of 'arms flailing' showy technique, but there are little gems here and there that are definate tips of the hat to Bruce. From the over-riding theme of adaptability in combat (as taught to Jet's character by Funakoshi), to Jet's footwork, to the very opening punch of the movie (an interception if i ever saw one) bits of JKD can be seen in this movie. If i'm not mistaken, there's even a Muay Thai-style clinch-and-knee in one scene, which is rare for a Gung Fu movie.Anyway, as a big fan of Bruce Lee (and decidedly not a fan of the usual Jet Li fare), it was a delight to see this ressurection of Fists of Fury.
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Summary: The Best!
Review: Although I'm still very resentful towards Dimension for releasing so many quality martial arts films without the Chinese language tracks available, this remains the king of martial arts movies. It's a remake of Bruce Lee's "Chinese Connection/Fist of Fury", and its actually better. Jet Li's character Chen Zhen is a devout gunfu student during China's tumultuous Qing Dynasty/Republic era. His teacher dies during a challenge match at the hands of the Imperial Japanese ultra-nationalists, and Chen is out to restore the name of the Jingwu School. Fist of Legend has the best fighting, with little "string-fu" and Chen Zhen's character utilizes everything he learns from other opponents to form a more complete, convincing fighter. An excellent film!
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Summary: Definitely the Best
Review: Well, there's nothing more i can say about this movie that everyone else hasn't already said. Yes,the dub and translation is horrible, but this is honestly the best version you're gonna get picture and sound wise unfortunately. I own both the US and the uncut HK version, and I personally prefer the uncut version which is in the original chinese language with english subs. Dubs dont cut it for me anymore. What you're missing from the uncut version is an opium smoking scene and it's not that big of a deal. The US version, however, has a much better sound in every category (effects, score, etc) and the picture is better as well. I couldn't choose one, so I own both. This is the remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (Chinese Connection in US), and it has the honor of being called a great one at that. Jet plays Chen who returns from studying in Japan after discovering the death of his master...he's convinced that he was murdered and sought out to discover the truth. He discovers a Japanese general was involved, and Jet must fight to avenge his master. Let's get to the point, Fists of Legend is by far the best work of martial arts caught on film. There is no disrespect to Bruce Lee here for Bruce was great in his own genre of fighting, which was more hardcore and real. Not all the fighting scenes in Fist of Legend are physically possible if one really thinks about it, but damn, the choreography (Woo Ping once again) makes it look so real and awesome. No other film has so many classic fights and this has major replay value.I'm a major fan of Jet, and in my opinion this is his best film "fighting-wise" period.Don't get me wrong,Tai Chi Master(Twin Warriors),Fong Sai Yuk(The Legend series),Once Upon a Time series, and Swordsman II were all awesome, but a lot of them have a lot of unrealistic stuff(like flying).This is a must watch for anybody.If you want to watch a great Jet Li film,this is the best start.It does't get any better than this.
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Summary: One of Jet And Yuen Best Work!!!!
Review: When first hearing about this film, I was pretty excited about watching this. But when I rented it, it became much more than that. The plot isn't bad at all, it's just a normal Chinese plot. But the fight sequences are the greatest hand to hand fights I have ever seen. Jet Li displays amazing technique, breaking arms, legs and beating the living daylights of the Japanese. To all of those people who like plain martial arts fighting and don't like supernatural flying like in OUATIC and Iron Monkey this movies is for you (Not to degrade IM and OUATIC because they are amazing to). In the last big fight Jet Li does something amazing I thought I could never even dream of. But I'm not going to spoil it This was a great film and deserves much for its achievements.
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Summary: awesome movie, but NO CHINESE!
Review: The original, UNDUBBED version of this movie is one of the greatest kung fu movies of ALL TIME (one of my personal top 10) THIS DVD [STINKS]. I cannot believe they printed this to DVD without putting the Mandarin and Cantonese language tracks in. I was forced to return this movie because of that. The translation was terrible, much of the subtlety from the original movie were lost.
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