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Birth of the Dragon
Set against the backdrop of 1960s San Francisco, BIRTH OF THE DRAGON is a modern take on the classic movies that Bruce Lee was known for. It takes its inspiration from the epic and still controversial showdown between an up-and-coming Bruce Lee and kung fu master Wong Jack Man - a battle that gave birth to a legend.
18 February 1978, San Jose, California, USA
26 February 1975, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10 July 1951, New York City, New York, USA
30 December 1972, Michigan, USA
25 April 1976, Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China
September 02, 2017
...even the sporadic detours into Lee's exploits somehow manage to fall flat...August 25, 2017
Ng does a fine job as Lee, but ... he doesn't capture the charisma and magnetism of Lee - understandable, since he was among the most charismatic and magnetic people on the planet.August 25, 2017
How, this far into the 21st century, does a film like this get made? One that shunts Bruce Lee to the status of secondary character in a lazy and boringly familiar star-crossed romance?September 04, 2017
The lead actors are basically unknown to American audiences and so are easily accepted in their roles. This adds to the overall believability of the film.September 05, 2017
As cultural appropriation, it's a slap in the face to the very audience that might have been expected to see it.September 10, 2017
Whatever the criticisms, Yu Xia's portrayal of Wong Jack Man makes the film well worth seeing.August 25, 2017
It wants to be a character study, an explication of martial arts philosophy and an action picture ... But the film never really gets fully juiced until the climax ...September 04, 2017
Yep...the summer is ending.August 25, 2017
Zippy, B-movie entertainment. It proves that zeroing in on a small but significant part of a famous person's story, and how it reflects on their life at large, can often make for a sturdier entertainment than the usual long-skim approach to the biopic.August 25, 2017
An inferior effort that fails to do justice to both its central character and provocative premise.August 27, 2017
There's no reason a movie in which Bruce Lee and Steve McQueen (er, "Steve McKee") duke it out with Chinatown gangsters in mid-1960s San Francisco has any business being this joyless and dull.September 11, 2017
If you like Bruce Lee, try to get Ng cast in a different biopic, but avoid this one like a one-inch punch.