The story told in the movie is really excellent and entertaining. However it feels more like a story based on the life of Bruce Lee rather then an actual biopic of his life.

Jason Scott Lee perfectly plays Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee. Not only the way he plays Lee is impressive but also his fighting skills.

The music by Randy Edelman was also surprising good.

There are way too many fictitious and untrue things added in the movie to be considered a fair biography. But does it really matter for the movie? It's like "Ed Wood" that was also filled with altered things and false truths but still it was a movie that told us the story of an unique character and what drove him. "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" isn't much different in that way. OK it's not completely fair to compare this movie to "Ed Wood" since that was a far superior movie to "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (what a horrible title by the way).

The fight sequence are probably the best thing about the movie and they were highly entertaining, although very hard to believe that they actually really happened that way.

It's a good entertaining movie but if you want to get to know more about Bruce Lee this isn't the best material for you to start with.

7/10

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Born in America, Bruce Lee (Jason Scott Lee) grew up in Hong Kong with his father. After a fight with western soldiers, his father sends him away to study in American. His father warns him of the demon that haunts the male children of the family. In 1962, he is washing dishes in San Francisco. After a fight with the kitchen staff, he's fired. After a fight with a bunch of jocks, he's asked to teach them how to fight. Linda (Lauren Holly) becomes one of his students. They start dating despite the discrimination and the disapproval. Opening his own school, he is challenged to a fight for teaching to non-Chinese. He is blindsided and severely injured. Later TV producer Bill Krieger (Robert Wagner) brings him in to play Green Hornet's sidekick Kato which leads to his eventual stardom.

This is a fine biopic that is turned into a kung fu movie. Bruce Lee's story is quite effective. The rougher parts of his life is glossed over as his widowed wife Linda probably had a large say in the movie. I would like to have seen his life turn into more of a fantasy. The part of him fighting his demon could be used to much better effect. The demon is his greatest fight and provides a great opportunity. Nevertheless this is a very compelling biopic with a solid performance from Jason Scott Lee.

Perhaps one day we'll get a real, true to life biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee. This film, already a couple of decades old, is short on detail and quite long on fictional elements, the major one to my mind being that he wound up in traction after being blind sided by a fighting opponent named Johnny Sun (John Cheung). The only time Lee ever injured his back to that extent was while doing a set of weight exercises without properly warming up, and even then, he didn't wind up in the kind of contraption depicted in the film. That Johnny Sun fight as well seemed to stand in for a legendary, but little witnessed fight between Lee and Wong Jack Ma, which formed the basis for the much later 2016 film, "Birth of the Dragon" with Philip Ng in the role of Lee. It accurately did take place when Lee was called upon to defend his practice of teaching martial arts to non-Oriental practitioners.

But if you're not particularly interested in historical accuracy, this film conveys some of the basics in Bruce Lee's life and his rise to martial arts and cinema prominence for a brief period in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Personally, I tried watching an episode of "The Green Hornet" once and thought it more than hokey, and couldn't get beyond one episode. No mention is ever made of Lee appearing as Kato in the 'Batman' TV series as well, three times in fact, so that's a cool trivia point for fans to know. What I find kind of interesting about cinema depictions of Lee is that he quite often was arrogant and cocky to a degree that made him personally unlikable, which I find to be diametrically opposed to what a martial arts master ought to be. Perhaps if he had lived longer, that image might have become more appealing over time.

As for Jason Scott Lee in the role of Bruce, he affects the man's appearance and mannerisms quite well, along with the fighting postures demonstrated in the story. The only thing I don't go for are the exaggerated facial contortions and manic screaming that goes with the fight sequences. Bruce Lee portrayed his character the same way in his most famous film role, 1973's "Enter the Dragon". There, it seemed to me that his excessive flexing would actually work to a disadvantage by way of wasted energy. However as an intimidating factor it would seem to work against someone without the skills and techniques to take on a champion of Lee's caliber.