The Chinese Connection
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Movie Reviews of The Chinese Connection
Movie Review: American DVD review only, not the movie.
Summary: 2 Stars
The Chinese Connection was the American release name of The Fist of Fury. The American release is edited and badly dubbed. Search for the import release known as The Fist of Fury. The picture and soundtrack is restored and it's formatted properly. The WB releases are sub-par and the import discs are about the same price.Movie Review: ALWAYS stay with ORIGINAL
Summary: 2 Stars
Why American production make HK movies look so cheap? First of all, they cut off so much scene, second of all ruin it by making look acting so dumb by English Dubb. For ANY of HK movies, ALWAYS stick with ORIGINAL LICENSED HK RELEASE. Be careful with cheap imports, boots though.Movie Review: Don't know what happened here
Summary: 2 Stars
This was marketed as ''Bruce Lee's most violent film ever.''But I for one couldn't help but find it strangely boring.Movie Review: So, What Do You Think Of My Clever Little Plan?
Summary: 1 Stars
Goodness, what a terrible movie! I saw it first run when it was released and I was studying kendo and just starting to become involved in martial arts. Since then I've been bewildered by the adulation for this film.
The acting consists of expressions of incredulity, sneers, grimaces and befuddlement all delivered with intense ineptitude by all of the cast.
The plot only works if you ignore what you're seeing. Of course most people prefer to live this way so I suspect that's part of this movie's appeal.
Consider: Bruce Lee's character arrives at his master's funeral in such a crazed state he's only prevented from digging the man up by being whacked over the head with a shovel. Next he starts a fight with a rival school which has the political clout needed to close his master's school down. Later, when he discovers the people who killed his master he murders them, thus eliminating any chance of getting his school out of trouble. Lee's association with his master's school is so disasterous that by the end of the film the school is wrecked and many of his classmates are dead.
There's also a nasty taint of racism that can't be ignored. The villians are Japanese and they're brutal, lavicious and criminal. To help us determine which orientals are the bad ones most of the Japanese sport bad Elvis haircuts and sideburns. One even wears thick, round spectacles once the trademark of every Japanese villian. The chief Japanese villian has a mustashe of such preposterous dimensions it almost begs to be twirled.
The fight scenes are fun, though utterly unbelievable. After many years of martial arts training and sparring I cringe at the idea of Lee's carefully choregraphic dances being considered "fights." Bruce Lee spends far too much time holding poses so we can see his muscles while his opponents politely wait for someone to step forward to be the next one to get kicked in the face.
Watching this movie once is fine but to spend money to buy it is a waste.
Movie Review: possibly Bruce Lee's worst
Summary: 1 Stars
As I said in the "Fist of Fury" review, I realize that Bruce Lee's films aren't centered around a good plot. However, I watched the Chinese Connection and I tried to base the movie on good fight scenes but there just wasn't enough to save it. As for the DVD, the transfer is pitiful! It would have suited me fine to watch the Chinese Connection on VHS.