In this ballet of pain and mutilation, Bruce Lee is a matchless Nureyev. The others are just athletes - he made karate a film art.
Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer's headquarters with the help of some friends. While the West had seen a very clichéd version of Asian characters on screen in the 70s, ‘Enter the Dragon’ broke many conventions from the diversity of the characters to how action is handled in the movie. The movie’s success contributed to mainstream interest in forms of martial arts and also inspired numerous action films, television shows, games, comic books, manga and animé, which are pretty popular today.
Hong Kong/USA 1973 Robert Clouse 102m
