Enter the Dragon (4K Ultra HD) [4K UHD]

Enter the Dragon(1973) is a classic, action-packed, kung fu movie produced by Warner Bros. and Golden Harvest in Hong Kong. This film made Bruce Lee an international movie star. Bruce Lee also died during the Summer of 1973 as he tried to complete Game of Death(1972). Enter the Dragon has been ripped off in "Bruceploitation Movies". This film has been spoofed in beverage TV spots, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Balls of Fury(2007) starring Christopher Walken and George Lopez. Lee(Bruce Lee), Roper(John Saxon), and Williams(Jim Kelly) infiltrate a martial arts tournament on an island run by the evil, corrupt Mr. Han(Shih Kien). Lee gets help from sexy, secret agent Mei Ling(Betty Chung). The late Ahna Capri plays a sexy villainess that Roper is attracted to.Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Wah play bad guys in the film. Yuen Wah doubled for Bruce Lee in some action scenes. Angela Mao makes a guest appearance as Lee's on screen sister. Lee's Jeet Kune Do student Bob Wall plays bad guy O'Hara. Lalo Schifrin's Enter the Dragon music score is lush, colorful, and energetic. Director Brett Ratner is a fan of Schifrin and he hired him to write music for the Rush Hour movies. Enter the Dragon gives us authentic Asian culture and stereotypes of it.There's Sumo wrestlers at Han's party. The late Robert Clouse did a decent job directing the film. Clouse went on to direct lesser martial arts films such as The Big Brawl, Black Belt Jones, Force Five, and Gymkata. Enter the Dragon borrows ideas from James Bond movies and 1940's pulp comic books, but the film works thanks to Bruce Lee's participation on the film. Michael Allin's script takes notice of the film's flaws. Williams tells Han that "he comes right out of a comic book".A British bureaucrat played by Geoffrey Weeks tells Lee why Han's island isn't stocked with firearms. The film has some brief, gratuitous nudity! There's two nude women in Williams' room! Bruce Lee shows some grace with the kung fu fights that he staged for Enter the Dragon. Enter the Dragon was spoofed in Kentucky Fried Movie(1977) as "A Fistful of Yen"! Bong Soo Han(the action director for Billy Jack) played a Han-like villain. After Bruce Lee died in 1973, the quality of action movies in Hong Kong went downhill. Some movie producers in the United States in the 1970's avoided making kung fu movies. Filmmakers such as Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Tsui Hark, Chor Yuen and Gordon Liu picked up the slack in the late 1970's. Enter the Dragon(1973) was one of the most enjoyable movie made in the 1970's.

Fantastic movie, my favorite Bruce Lee movie, best martial arts film in movie history, and a great film in general. This movie is getting hard to find now, but it's worth a search and watch. The action is outstanding and really show Bruce Lee is his peak back then. Great story which pretty much inspired the original Mortal Kombat game back then. Highly recommended film for anyone who is a fan of Bruce Lee. Thank you.

Great movie

Bruce Lee was the greatest martial artist ever, and I think this was his best film. The martial arts action is excellent in this movie. Bruce Lee's match against Bob Wall is one of the best fight sequences filmed. The only other fight scene that compares is Bruce Lee's fight against Chuck Norris in Return of the Dragon. Bob Wall could really take some punishment which makes the fight scene look all the more realistic.Even the other stars, Jim Kelly and John Saxon, are adequate, though we'd much rather see Bruce. We're cheated of seeing Bruce take on Bolo in one scene so that John Saxon could get some more screen time. Still, there's plenty of action from Bruce as he takes on teams of palace gaurds who are actual tri-ad members. John Saxon actually went into the film thinking that he would be the star, and Warner Bros., concerned that Bruce Lee wouldn't be able to carry the film as an asian actor, let Saxon believe this as they filmed it.I think this is better than BL's other films for several reasons. For one thing, this is the only Lee film with Bruce's actual voice, and not some stupid sounding dubbed voice-over. Also, the choreography is more realistic than the others, with the possible exception of Return of the Dragon, which was entirely choreographed by Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee did much of the choregraphy for the Raymond Chow films, Fists of Fury and The Chinese Connection, but not all of it. Therefore there's a lot of phony looking wire-work in those movies. Return of the Dragon was the only movie directed by Bruce and is definately worth getting after ETD. However it sometimes looks a little amateurish and the soundtrack and production's not nearly as good as ETD. Game of Death is the last Bruce Lee film anyone should get as he only had 28 minutes of it done before he died. A double was used for the rest of the movie. The movie is notable for Bruce's fight with Kareem Abdul Jabar and also his nunchaku fight with Dan Inosanto, Bruce's training partner.This version of ETD features a cut scene where Bruce discusses eastern philosophy with a monk. The dialogue is crucial to a later scene where Bruce figures out a way to defeat his adversary. Warner Bros. originally cut the scene because they thought western audiences wouldn't understand it. The source print is very good and I didn't see any flaws. The soundtrack is remastered in DD but still mostly comes out of the center channel. It also has extensive interview with Bruce and original trailors. If you get only one martial arts movie, get this one!