Enter the Dragon (1973)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

A truly great action film that provides us with a worthy legacy from the master, Bruce Lee. It also kindles the inevitable 'what if' nostalgia, wondering where his career might have gone if blessed with Jackie Chan longevity. Tho' I do worry about Jackie's well-being, still doing so many stunts himself, even today. Bruce Lee always seemed to be the physical ideal - strong but quick and light; a contrast to the muscle-bound Schwarzeneggers - so it is still hard to accept that his body betrayed him in the end, if we are to believe the official story. But celebrity does have its temptations and pitfalls and it was a period when drug taking was considered normal in certain spheres. Moreover cocaine, especially, feeds the notion of of immortality, of being untouchable and capable of anything (while simultaneously wreaking its internal damage). Who knows what really happened, but I shall always treasure my copy of this film.

I think that this film was definitely worth time watching even though it was an older film. Even though some of the sounds for the fighting scenes were pretty generic the action in the movie was great. It's story line was good but pretty stereotypical of a kung fu action movie but it would seem less stereotypical seeing the movie at the time when it came out. I think they killed Williams instead of roper because there was still prejudice against black people at that time and it would most likely settle better with the audience of that time having the black guy die rather than the white one. Even in many modern day movies and TV shows the black guy ends up getting killed off, such as in the walking dead. I think the film has aged pretty well since it has a good story line and the action although dated still is exciting. Although the picture and sound quality isn't up to par with most of today's movies there are some scenes in the movie that i very much liked such as the mirror room fight scene. Most kung fu films takes after many aspects of this film since it was the first of it's kind such as Kill Bill and many films featuring Jackie Chan. This movie steals a lot from James Bond even with the music that sounds extremely similar to that which is from the James Bond movie series. They also stole the much of the basic story line of James Bond films with the one bad guy and the good guy has to take him down in a spy like manner.

This movie was not exactly worth my watching because I am not one to watch Kung Fu movies. I like how to movie has an old feel to it. How it was filmed with ADR and there was no sounds recorded while filming. The sound and actions were spot of off and that made the movie hard to watch. It's punches were not in time with the sound of a punch.*SPOILER* I think they killed Williams because he was really nosy in other peoples lives and he was really annoying to watch in the movie. This movie stole music and sound effects from spy movies like James Bond. Overall this movie was not for someone who doesn't like Kung Fu but if you did then it is an entertaining movie.

Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee and directed by Robert Clouse. This movie came out in the early 1970s, back when action movies haven't fully attracted audiences around the world. But along came Enter the Dragon. This movie really launched the action genre to be one of the most common genres. The action scenes all really hold up, although some of the sound effects didn't age that well but it doesn't take itself seriously so most of it holds up well. One thing that doesn't hold up is the use of female characters. They are mostly used as sex symbols, because nowadays females have much bigger roles in movies, they impact the plot. During the film one of the main characters is killed, Williams, and it took me a while to figure out why he was killed. I think he was killed because Han though that he was the one roaming around at night. Newer films like John Wick Chapter 2 (2017) and The Guest (2014) have taken one scene in particular. The scene where Lee fights Han in the room filled with mirrors. No one had seen a scene like that back then. But what this movies takes from other movies is the look of the movie looks like and sounds like a James Bond movie. The isolated island with a secret lair deep inside it. The music score has a lot of bass and very slow. This movie is a lot of fun to watch. It is a perfect movie to have friends over and watch it with popcorn.