It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This film as issues, a lot of issues but the main problem is that the supposed central character is nothing but a bit part. By concentrating the action on an underdeveloped, fictional and quite frankly dull character, the producers have missed an opportunity to explore a far more interesting story. The character of Steve McKee is totally pointless and drags the pace of the film down whenever he is on screen. Conversely, scenes involving Bruce Lee and/or Wong Jack Man while not wholly accurate bring the movie to life, except at the end where they team up as if they are starring in another addition to the Rush Hour movies. Worth a watch if nothing else is on but not one for repeated viewings and definitely not historically accurate.

This would be a good popcorn flick if it didn't pretend to be a biopic. Instead, it takes Bruce Lee and makes him a one-dimensional Kobra Kai character. His rival serves somewhat as a foil to this, having more motivations and development early on. And while I don't doubt China Town had issues in this time period, the movie does use the White Savior trope to move the plot along. It is the self-centered white man who can see passed his own connection to his Chinese girlfriend who gets to be the hero and martyr for most of the movie. Lee and Wong at least seem to recognize that the problems go beyond one woman, and ramming heads doesn't solve that. Instead of addressing issues, this movie falls back on the idea that a fight fixes everything. If one fight doesn't, start another one. Protagonist McWhitebread has his shortsightedness vindicated when a mere request leads antagonists to shut down an entire brothel revenue stream over one multi-million dollar fight. The antagonist had no reason to go this extra mile or stay true to his word. This movie isn't about Bruce Lee's life. It's about how white America glorifies violence and laughs at the idea that self-discipline and helping others should be more important. I thought it would be vice versa, with Sifu Wong teaching Bruce Lee through both Wong's refusal to fight, and then his refusal to kill. Instead, the movie keeps going long enough that the poignancy of that is diluted. Lee's journey is relegated to a McGuffin serving to prove that in the end, a white man's anger and the glory of violence are more glamorous and important.

How does a film like this even get madelets take the most famous kung fu artist of all time and turn him into a punki cant say for sure how the real fight went between bruce lee and wong jack man but in this film i want bruce lee to lose and im only half way through the film

Will admit that my expectations were too high when I first heard of this. They were adjusted after the reviews and will now share that is a average martial arts movie. Very glad that I waited to see free and probably would have been more critical IF I paid for at movies. Lower your expectations and standards as this is not Bruce Lee or even a Jet Li movie. If you do that and not look at it as an Asian movie or Caucasian hero movie; just a movie than you can get thru it, LOL.