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Friday, 10 January 2014

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)

John Little's documentary charts Bruce Lee's progression from martial arts student to martial arts master. It introduces the core values of his philosophy and the circumstances that surrounded their discovery.
There’s archive material, behind the scenes footage, screen tests and home movies, but the real treasure is 33 minutes of footage that had been lost for over a quarter of a Century. It was originally planned to be part of Game of Death (1978), a film that was completed and released posthumously. It’s an almost unbroken section of film that includes a spectacular fight between 5’ 7” Bruce and 7’ 2” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!

4½ intercepting fists out of 5

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