In "Fist of Fury", Bruce Lee plays Chen Zhen, a martial arts master who is distraught after the death of his teacher. Pretty soon he discovers that some 'bad people' (Japanese 'bad people') are behind the death. Cue lots of fight, Bruce Lee over-emoting and a plot that is just there to help the next fight happen."Fist of Fury" is a really entertaining movie. The action is really cool and it is nicely choreographed. The camera work and the set ups are really good: for example, the fight between Chen Zhen and the Japanese students at the latter's dojo. Even if the fighting per se comparing with more modern movies has become outdated, it has shear force and it is highly entertaining. Bruce Lee showcases his skills and he has charisma to give and share. Too bad he has a penchant to over-emote at every opportunity. Not that the acting is high quality in any case.On the down side, as in other Bruce Lee movies, it can't help but being over-patriotic and being cheaply nationalistic, the bad guys just pure evil caricatures (and Japanese, of course).

Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) returns to Shanghai and is shocked to find his master Huo Yuanjia's funeral. Huo had started the Ching Wu School. The local Japanese dojo intrudes on the funeral and challenge them to a fight. Chen is suspicious of the death and investigates. He answers the challenge alone and takes down everybody forcing them to eat their words. He goes to a park where he's forbidden to enter. A sign reads "NO DOGS AND Chinese ALLOWED". As Chen continues to fight, his Japanese foes push the police to stop him.This is a classic kung fu movie. Bruce Lee is playing the martyr, the terminator, and the underdog. It doesn't get much better than Bruce taking on dozens of enemy. The best is probably him kicking the sign at the park to smithereens. There are some dubbing issues but this is still one of Bruce's best. His charisma shines through. This a real audience pleaser especially for Chinese national pride.

Way of the Dragon (1972) has better fight scenes, than this movie. Yes, I know, in Way they're back door of restaurant, but its what happens there. I give Way 8, Enter 6 and Boss 7. In Enter the Dragon Lee was really skinny and he died, before the movie was released. The Big Boss has strong story, but not much fighting. OK, I made myself clear about other Lee movies, lets think about Fist of Fury. It starts with Lee arriving to his teachers funeral. Lee becomes so emotional, that he starts to dig with his hands mud off teachers coffin. Next scene, Lee hasn't eat anything in 2 days, he just sits in front of his teachers photo. Lee asks: "What killed my teacher?" Little Unicorn answers: "It was cold". Lee replies: "He was wealthy man, nothing was wrong with him". Then Japanese arrive and give sign, that reads: sick men of Asia. Lee nearly attacks Japanese, but remembers, what his teacher told to him: be patient. I was really surprised in a good way, because the infamous house scene happens at 15 minutes mark. After that this movie becomes quite boring, but next action scene is Lee versus Ying-Chieh Han and other Japanese, they pretended to be Chinese, but Lee found out secret. Lee kills both and takes them to hang in pole. Japanese respond by attacking Chinese school. Next action scene is Lee with rickshaw and that gay dude from Way of the Dragon, Lee asks, that what happened to his teacher, gay answers, it was Suzuki, gay tries to surprise Lee, but Lee was alert and kills gay and again puts him to pole. Then Japanese have had it and they march to Chinese school and same time Lee goes to Japanese school and end fight begins. There are only few men in house, so Lee finishes them off quickly. Then its fat dude with glasses and he takes samurai sword, Lee kicks the sword and grabs fat dude and sword goes right through him. Then its Japanese backyard and Lee beats up few guys, after them its Lee versus Russian guy and that was pretty impressive fight, when Lee finishes Russian, its Lee versus Suzuki and Suzuki surprises Lee with Samurai sword, but Lee has his weapon and Lee kicks Suzuki through paper wall and when Suzuki flew, the stunt was made by Jackie Chan. After that scene Lee shows up to police and they shoot Lee. End of movie. We had young and rising superstars in Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen, Corey Yuen and Wah Yuen. Then again we had veteran actors in Ying-Chieh Han (1927-1991) and Feng Tien (Born 1928 and still alive, while I'm making this review).

I'd never seen a Bruce Lee film before, maybe bits and pieces here and there, but this was the first one I just sat down and watched all the way through. I was expecting to be a little bit bored by a bunch of fake action events and no worthwhile plot. I soon found however that the movie was quite intriguing from the start, and for more reasons than one. First thing is, I didn't know that Bruce Lee could ACT. He's got this charisma, which on one hand goes part and parcel with the intensity of fierceness during the fight, yet on the other hand, he's no one-dimensional character either, and there are a lot of good dramatic scenes between characters in between the fights. Actually on-screen drama time is quite a bit more minute for minute than fight scenes, which I was happy to discover. Oh, there is definitely enough fighting, but not to the detriment of the story which grows and develops suspensefully.'Fist of Fury', set in colonial Shanghai times, is the story of a Japanese martial arts school trying to shut down a Chinese one, to which Lee belongs, after killing their master, and is the basis for a lot of very good fight scenes and just a touch of humor as Lee goes fugitive and then evading the law and donning a variety of disguises, single handedly takes them down one by one (and sometimes all together at the same time). This synopsis however doesn't do justice to the atmosphere of the story, the resonant feeling of 1970s "old Shanghai", rich in violence and Japanese/Chinese historic background. I can see now why Bruce Lee is still revered as the icon of bad@ss 70s cool - but his personality carried very well into scenes beyond the fight, unlike say Jet Li.