Welcome back to MuayThaiArt.com/weblog! We’re back with another old movie. However this old movie I’m talking about was made by a Legend, Bruce Lee. So that makes it a lot more interesting to watch.

The Way of the Dragon is considered to be Lee’s best film. He wrote, directed and starred in this action movie. He took a role of a na?ve country boy sent to Rome to help his relatives. A calm and kind Asian like himself will turn into a killing machine once he’s pissed by some bad guys.

If the hero is an Asian guy, so the bad guy has to be a Caucasian. Real-life Karate Champion Chuck Norris took this role and he had to fight against Bruce in the film. So you imagine how well the fighting scenes had turned out. The fight scene against Chuck Norris remains supreme to this day. Bruce had to take hours of Boxing and Wrestling class just for this scene.

However, there are some funny scenes when Bruce had a difficult time adjusting into a new environment. But that makes the film plot really similar to many other of his films like The Big Boss (since there are quite number of the same people appearing in both films) and it could be boring for many critics because they always want to find something new.

Note: Mohammed Ali, the great heavyweight boxer at that time, had an influence in Bruce’s style of fighting. If you have noticed, in this film, Bruce is more on his toes not flat footed as in his earlier movies.

When it first ran at the Asian cinemas, the Way of the Dragon grossed $HK 5 million. For Bruce Lee fans, the Way of the Dragon still remains the greatest Bruce Lee film of all time.

So if you get a chance to rent or even better buy this film to your martial arts collection, I recommend you should do so. If you really are martial arts fan, this movie can never disappoint you.