bruce lee enter the dragon full movie part 2

The genesis of Enter the Dragon began with producer Fred Weintraub who thought Hollywood could make a good martial arts film. It turns out that the smugglers' boss is hosting a martial arts contest which allows Lee and two partners to visit the island as contenders in the championship. The smugglers' island is heavily guarded which prevents Lee from easily gaining access until a police agency recruits him for a secret mission there. Putting an espionage twist on the familiar revenge theme, Enter the Dragon features Lee as a martial arts expert whose sister was killed by drug smugglers. Enter the Dragon was a huge hit but sadly Lee didn't live to see this, dying just a few weeks before the premiere. And, of course, the fight scenes are mesmerizing and unlike anything previously seen in American films. By Hollywood standards, the film was a B-movie, yet every aspect of it from the acting to the direction was way above average for an action thriller. In fact, it's often called one of the greatest martial arts films ever made and one reason is because people who aren't martial arts fans also enjoy it. Even after Norris, Seagal, Van Damme, he remains the one action superstar who could stage a martial-arts contest not simply to dazzle, to incite fantasies of quick-cut mayhem, but to dramatize the eccentric hum of his own personality.Rather than being just a weak imitation of the crowd-pleasing films Bruce Lee made in China, Enter the Dragon (1973) - his first mainstream American film - captures all the excitement of his previous Hong Kong hits. There was something a little freakish about Bruce Lee, and that oddball quality was at the center of his hellcat charisma. Then, of course, there’s that sound - the high, quavery whine he emitted, like radar, while sizing up his opponents. Having delivered a lethal punch, he’ll stand there, palms stretched out and quivering, mouth forming a predatory O he’s like a human lightning rod struggling to conduct forces beyond his own body. Yet Lee is actually at his most mesmeric when he’s not moving. You’re shocked, at first, by the speed and ferocity - the instantaneous violence - of his movements.

In Enter the Dragon, the 1973 martial-arts thriller that made him an international cult star, he appears sporting his trademark look: face a-glower, body stripped to the waist, his lithe torso set off by jet-black pants and a matching shag of hair. Bruce Lee became a legend the old-fashioned way - by dying young - but his on-screen magic was timeless.

Bruce lee enter the dragon full movie part 2