The Legend of Bruce Lee

2008
6.8| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 April 2008 Released
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Country: China
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The story of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee following him from Hong Kong to America and back again, leading up to his tragic death at the age of 32.

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Action

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Li Wen Qi

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The Legend of Bruce Lee Audience Reviews

Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
unclecleo-66047 This series is such a mess in more ways than one. LMFAO!Music - Laughable! OMG! It's SO bad I couldn't stop cracking up at how cheesy it was. The intro music is super lame and there are times when the soundtrack sounds like the theme song to Night Court. The worst of all is a song they use in episode 14 that has a chorus that goes " Bruce Lee.. Bruce Lee.. Bruce Lee..". Seriously, you will die laughing. I've never heard a worse soundtrack ever. Who the hell signed off on this? LOL!Time Period - they obviously took zero consideration into what year it was. Costa Pizza boxes, Justin Timberlake t-shirt.. it's hilarious. Oh and not to sound racist but I'm pretty sure there weren't any black female police officers in 1959. Inaccuracy - I could write a list here of all the horribly inaccuracies of this film but it would take too long. There's one reviewer in the first 10 reviews who nails them all. Go read that. However, one truly ridiculous inaccuracy that has nothing to do with Bruce's story is the fact that the black female police officers are wearing patches on their uniforms that says "Police Academy". LOL! A murder investigation performed by cadets? It's as if the wardrobe director went to Goodwill and got a couple of used shirts. Hilarious! Also, did anyone notice how when they arrested him they never put him in handcuffs? You're arresting a guy as a murder suspect with no cuffs? WTF? LOL!At times the film speaks like a Chinese propaganda film. It's whole purpose is prove the Chinese people are superior to Japanese people. I'm fully convinced that Asians are the most racist people on earth. Give it a rest already. The only thing that's good about this film is the lead actor. He looks a lot like Bruce and does a good job portraying him. The guy who plays Master IP is pretty cool too, although he really didn't look like that. he was bald and clean shaven. But I guess making him look like the dude from KiIl Bill is just sexier. Again.. gotta love the comedic value. Sorry but "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" was way better. This comedic joke, "The legend of Bruce Lee" took 50 dragged-out episodes to tell the same story, an inaccurately at that. Don't waste your time. Final note: Shannon Lee... are you serious? You actually put your name on this garbage? Don't you think your dad would be a little upset? Kind of disrespectful to his legend.. the real one.
rpestanow I get that this was written almost entirely from the point of view of the Chinese. And it is important always to take pride in your heritage. Therefore, you really should change the title of this show to Bruce Lee - Hero of the Chinese.I am a martial artists, and I have been practicing what everyone calls MMA since I was in my teens. I read Bruce Lees' Tao of Jeet Kwon Do in the 80's and was very inspired to seek out and train myself in this philosophy. That being said, I am not a historian on Bruce. I am however, an American, and old enough to have lived thru the late 60's, 70's, 80's and thru today. So I am familiar with pop culture, and have vested many hours in Bruce Lees films, history, biographies and the like.Let me say that the inaccuracies of this film are thoroughly discussed in other reviews. I do agree that there are many, many, many. The parts that get to me (other than the 3 annoying self promoting songs, of which I will briefly discuss) is that I can not believe that Chinese people have no understanding of our medical or legal system. The programs portrayal of Bruce's arrest for getting in a fight for stopping a rape is not even close to what would have actually happened. The program surmises that the witnesses testimonies couldn't be taking because they knew both Bruce and the Philippine girl. Not even close to the truth. The fact the police officer then tells Bruce that he won't be release until he can prove his innocence. NO. Innocent until proved guilty. The Police have to prove, not Bruce. OMG. Then the court of inquiry by I guess he was the Chief of Police. Nope. Court of Law, with a Judge and a Prosecutor and a Defense Attorney, its called an arrangement.Next up is his Aunt. Oh we can't help her unless you go pay money. No. Sorry. Medical Treatment cannot be refused no matter how poor you are in the country. You might say, well she needed blood, that is what the Red Cross does in here, in America. I guess they don't in China, For that I am truly sorry.Now to the Song...Ughhh. Who translated this song? And the person singing it, clearly spoke English, could they not fix the grammatical errors? Master of Soul, oh does he pay the blues too, or jazz? Masters Soul. Bruce Lee Battle Call. In this instance Call is the noun making Bruce, Lee and Battle adjectives. It is like saying Vanilla Ice Cream Call. Corrected it should be Bruce Lee's Battle Call. Possessive of Bruce Lee's shout, what shout? His Battle Call. While they did fix the heel to hills they didn't change the singular shore to shores.As far as the song that just repeats Bruce Lee's name, over and over and over and over. Ugggh. As far the Rock anthem one. It sort of sounds like Kiss doesn't it? Weird since Kiss came out in the mid 70's.So, if you want some entertainment, this is OK, with subtitles. If you are thinking this is the story of Bruce Lee or a true portrayal of his life. Pick up the biographies out on Bruce Lee, this is not it.Have a wonderful viewing experience.
ViolentRhapsody Despite this series having Bruce Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee, at the helm as executive producer it suffers from the same embellished melodrama and historical inaccuracies that other Bruce Lee bio-pics have been plagued with.This is understandable since Chinese productions are notorious with playing loose with the actual facts. The Donnie Yen "Ip Man" series of movies is a prime example of artistic license.Chinese films have always been jingoistic and xenophobic, often villainizing other cultures as being evil invaders, as a means of elevating the Chinese hero in the movie who inevitably and selflessly fights the "foreign devils" for the right of the oppressed Chinese - - which is a bit ironic considering in the last 100 years, the Chinese are possibly the most pervasive cultures to globally migrate to other countries using the affluence of commerce and business as the means rather than military force. Just sayin'.Hollywood is not any better with their highly embellished, Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story. A more apt title would have been A Bruce Lee Fable!It's understandable because real life is much more boring than real life. From everything I have read on Bruce Lee, his life was not as fantastic as that portrayed in this and other films. He did not get into even half the fights and confrontations portrayed in this movie, he faced more institutionalized racism (lack of opportunities) than outward racism, he injured himself lifting weights (as another poster has mentioned), had a bad temper, but otherwise was a hard working, ambitious guy...not exactly enough for a Hollywood or Asiawood movie I suppose.The danger to these over dramatized events of his life is that subsequent generations learning about Bruce Lee take them as fact and it really distorts the real life of Bruce Lee and his accomplishments.I hate to say this but the most accurate portrayal of Bruce Lee might still be the 1976 exploitation movie, Bruce Lee The Man The Myth...and that's not saying much.
Mike Garcia I just finished to watch the Chinese TV show "the legend of Bruce Lee", I must say that I expected something different instead of another bruceploitation product, the show talks about the legend,Bruce is show once more as a superhero beyond human and many of the facts told in the show are pure fictional vaguely based on Bruce real life... after finish the show you don't really know the man or his close people,many parts of the show reminds me a lot to the 1992 movie DRAGON...Otherwise in my opinion Danny Chan is the actor who better has played Bruce Lee, sometimes he can make you believe that is the real Bruce who is on the screen instead of an actor playing him, they are so alike..after watch the show I 'm more sure than ever that by far the movie BRUCE LEE MY BROTHER,A.K.A THE YOUNG BRUCE LEE of 2010 is by far the best biopic about Bruce lee ever made because that film shows something more than a superman or a legend,it shows the man the way he was,I hope they finally finish the trilogy