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The Chinese Connection

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DVD Review
Review: Get the Media Asia version instead. It is sold under it's original title "Fist of Fury". It has a pristine widescreen transfer and comes with 5 audio tracks (English, Cantonese, Mandarin and two audio commentaries in English and Cantonese). It also comes with 8 different subtitles. Plus it has unseen footage from Game of Death and five trailers for all of Bruce films. What's really cool about the trailers are that they are the original HK versions. This DVD version blows away every other release of this film. This is the only way to buy this movie if you don't want to be disappointed. Also, the soundtrack has been remixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital using the original soundtrack. Even though there is not much rear channel sound information it is much better than the mono sound on the other releases.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Chinese Connection
Review: The Chinese Connection is a very good but not a excellent movie. A young but powerful Chinese martial artist (Bruce Lee) must stop the Japenese martial artist for killing his master. This movie was not what I expected. It should had a shorter film because It had boring parts. The Chinese Connection is still a very good movie. The Chinese Connection aka Fists of Fury.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great movie!!! However, it should have been letterboxed!!!
Review: A great movie put out by Taiseng. However, it wasn't letterboxed so the English subtitles are cut off and unreadable throughout most of the film. Luckily, the Chinese characters are in the Mandarin dialect (though it's in the traditional right to left instead of the present left to right) so anyone who can read Chinese can understand it. If you can afford it, the Hong Kong DVD would be much better!!! Also, take note that Bruce Lee's own voice was used for Mr. Petrov.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "We are not.. sick men."
Review: It's difficult to get great quality so I'm not surprised by the complaints on the dvd. The video has always had skips in it. For some reason, I always kind of thought the scratchiness of the film added to the rainy scenery and the general dreariness of the picture. When Bruce goes to the Japanese school to "return" the gift brought for his teacher, that is one of the best scenes ever, plus later he takes on, barehanded, the same... teacher with a sword. He's a... animal, screaming and lurching and attacking with such speed and strength, never seen anything like it. Jean Claude van damme should go back to ballet.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Another Bruce Lee classic
Review: The Chinese Conection is one of my favorite Martial Arts films. Bruce Lee is un-doubtly the best martial artist of all time and it's a joy to see him do what he does best. Fight. Also, the plot is a noch above most kung fu films(thats not saying much) and delves into the racial violence between the Japanese and Chinese.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: good movie, bad DVD
Review: Too bad that one of Bruce Lee's greats had to be so poorly reproduced on DVD. The video quality is terrible, it looks like .AVI format with lots of pixelation, and the sound is just awful. This company sets a new standard in DVD, they are no longer safe purchases. Buy it on VHS instead

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: CHINESE CONNECTION
Review: Come on, everyone, we're rating the movie on how good it was, aren't we? Not how good the DVD version is. This was a neat movie, kind of typical for Bruce Lee, but typical is great isn't it? Any chance to see his greatness is excellent.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Can't Beat Bruce
Review: This movie is a great. The picture and sound are pretty bad, but you won't find better anywhere elts. It just looks as if the master wasn't taken care of. Of cource the english dubbing is bad to, but thats how it was when it came to American theaters, so thats just how it is. Basicly we can all wish there were better quality copies to buy, but this is as good as it gets, and you can't beat bruce.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Cheap DVD = Poor quality
Review: This is a WROST DVD I've ever owned. I would rate 5 stars for all Bruce Lee's movies, however this poor quality of transferring this movie to DVD is really ruining his name. I re-ordered a box set of Bruce Lee's collection and this version was great (clear and good sound). Remember: "You get what you paid for!"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An excellent display of Martial arts at its best.
Review: The movie litrelly sent current(electric) waves through my body and as all Bruce lee fans know made Bruce lee a chinese hero.This piece of Work by Lee was even more spectacular than his first movie(Big Boss) and featured more variety in the fight scenes.

I have had the privilage of seeing its complete version by Rank Video itself a couple of years ago but sadly In the last few years many videos are the censored versions where the nunchacku fight scenes and certain other high impact action sequences have been nicely cut.

What puzzles me more is that the Censors did not care about the semi nude dance which appears in the movie but on the fight scenes.In my opinion rather then releasing the censored versions they should not release it at all.If they just cut the semi nude scene well its understandable but then instead very strangely the certain core elements have been censored.

Which in other words is like insulting the movie title.It is fist of fury but there is no fury as a result of censorship and newcomers to Bruce lee will fail to understand the uniqueness of the late martial arts Master.

But I can say in its uncut version even a non bruce lee fan and a non martial arts person will be thrilled to death! at Lee's speed and potential showing what all the motivated martial arts man can do and what limits and heights of technical skill and power he can accomplish.Real skill and not magic tricks.

The chinese connection(aka fist of fury) is even today clearly outstanding in the martial arts movies.

Thanking you V.Ram kumar


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