![]() ![]() The "Cavern Fight" is probably my favorite fight sequence of all time, in any martial arts movie. ![]() ![]() Many of them still hold up very well, especially by 2004's standards, where fight scenes are mostly digitally enhanced or involve "wire" or "Matrix-fu" to make up for lack of actual stunt work plus one has to remember that this film was made in 1973, in the days before wirework would become dominant in today's martial arts cinema. Even more tragically, his son Brandon Lee would experience a similar fate just like his father only 20 years later with "The Crow."There are so many classic fight scenes, which I can watch over and over without them ever becoming boring. Soon enough, Lee, together with two other martial artists, Roper John Saxon and Williams Jim Kelly, go to work kicking a** everywhere until the final showdown with the murderous, one-handed villain Han in the classic "Hall of Mirrors" fight sequence."Enter the Dragon," a joint American-Chinese production, was intended to be Bruce Lee's introduction to Western audiences, but due to his tragic death just weeks before the film's American release, we will never know what he would have been capable of here in the states. Indeed something is amiss at this isolated island fortress, as he discovers that his nemesis Han Shih Kien is the host of the tournament and is also the leader of the same gang that murdered his sister. Under the cover of being invited to a martial arts tournament, to investigate a possible slavery/drug ring led by a former nemesis of his.
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