Review: Variety, June 1 2004 [excerpt]

...a return to form. No-one expects a retread of Game of Death at this point, and why should they? Bruce Lee had nothing left to prove after shooting the genre-defining OK Bruce Lee, and so he is free to explore his muse. Of course, it wouldn't be a Bruce Lee movie without action - and what action there is! The fists fly, the camera cuts left to right and back again like a rapt spectator at a tennis match, and the shrieks and howls of the combatants pierce the theater, and sometimes our hearts. Along the way (if we're not careful!) we may even learn something: about Bruce Lee, the man and the actor, and perhaps even about ourselves. ***1/2

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