The Way of the Dragon

Name: The Way of the Dragon
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 14, 1972
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Chung-Hsin Huang, Ing-Sik Whang, Little Unicorn

1972

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 14, 1972 | R

Starring: Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Chung-Hsin Huang, Ing-Sik Whang, Little Unicorn, Nora Miao, Ping Ou Wei, Robert Wall, Ti Chin, Tony Liu

Summary: Lee pays a visit to family members who own a restaurant in Italy. But mobsters who want the land the eatery is built upon harass the owners, forcing Lee to defend his family as only he can. Lee, for the sake of his loved ones, must battle a U.S. karate expert in a Roman coliseum.

Director: Bruce Lee

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Empire Jo Berry

Way Of The Dragon is memorable purely for its final Coliseum-set showdown between Lee and Chuck Norris (at the time the holder of countless US and World Karate championships). This is the film that provides just about the best combat sequence ever shot. Read full review

Matthew Polly

The film’s appeal rests almost entirely on his fight scene with his student, Chuck Norris — arguably the best one ever captured on celluloid. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Far from a perfect movie, or even Lee's best, but it shows that he may have developed into an original and talented filmmaker. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Dragon is noteworthy more for the martial arts action than for narrative, which is all its fans probably want anyway. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The film has the roughness you might expect in a first directorial effort, and also a perhaps unexpected leaning towards comedy. Lee makes great play on his character as the country boy without weapons confronting the denizens of the technologically-powerful West and winning hands down. Read full review

Nora Sayre

Unlike its predecessor, Enter the Dragon, which was praised as a well-made movie, this picture is dreadfully slow and feeble whenever the cast isn't fighting. So you yearn for each battle, just as you wait impatiently for the songs or dances in a tedious musical. Read full review

Roger Ebert

This sort of stuff is magnificently silly, and Lee, to give him credit, never tried to rise above it. If a movie like this were directed seriously, it would be a disaster. Read full review

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Thepic

Aug 17, 2020

I genuinely don't know why the ratings for this are so low. It's Bruce Lee, that alone is enough to give the movie some credibility. I mean I know it's not a 9, but for me this is an exception. I'm giving it a 9 instead of a 10 because I have to acknowledge the flaws, even if this movie isI genuinely don't know why the ratings for this are so low. It's Bruce Lee, that alone is enough to give the movie some credibility. I mean I know it's not a 9, but for me this is an exception. I'm giving it a 9 instead of a 10 because I have to acknowledge the flaws, even if this movie is important.… Expand

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gracjanski

Jun 3, 2021

Simple story. Many technical mistakes (sometimes the pictures are very blurry).
Bad sounds, because recorded after the pictures in studio and because some sounds are repeating often.
Superficial characters, only Bruce Lee is interesting with his amazing Kung Fu skills, but they show themSimple story. Many technical mistakes (sometimes the pictures are very blurry).
Bad sounds, because recorded after the pictures in studio and because some sounds are repeating often.
Superficial characters, only Bruce Lee is interesting with his amazing Kung Fu skills, but they show them only in the end of the movie.
Very bad humour.

-> there are better martial arts movies.… Expand

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