Enter the Dragon (1973)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

I understand that for many martial arts movie fans, this is a nostalgia trip. But that doesn't change the fact that this is a bad movie. The dialogue is laugh-out-loud terrible, and most of the performances aren't great. Also, almost all of the audio appears to be ADRed, and some of the Chinese actor's voices where clearly redone by a white guy with a southern American accent who didn't even try to match the flaps. There are long pauses in between most lines of dialogue where we just stare at someone's face, which is hilarious. Most of the dialogue is pure nonsense and does nothing to further the plot. Watching this really made me understand why Samurai Cop exists--the dialogue is exactly the same quality (but much less racist).In my opinion, most of the fighting scenes were boring. This might be because I'm used to watching BJJ fights, which involve much more grappling, and so are a bit more dynamic than most of the fights, which just involve punching and kicking. Bruce Lee's fights stand out as the best by far, you can really see his skill. In some of the shots of the morning ritual, you can really see some of the extras phoning it in and not keeping proper form, which is funny.A lot of the stuff that happens in this movie makes no sense. Why use a king cobra instead of an armed guard? Are king cobras even indigenous to China? Why do all of the competitors and the guards randomly start fighting each other right before Bruce Lee fights the bad guy? What's the bad guys motive? Why did the bad guy lock a bunch of people in his evil underground lair? Wouldn't it just be really expensive to have to feed them all? Why are the only conversations that actually get anywhere about prostitutes? How did the agency who contacted Lee know that bad stuff was happening on this island? What did the agency even want Lee to do? Why did the bad guy kill the only man who knew who was in the garden? Why doesn't the side plot about one character's gambling addiction never get resolved? Actually, why isn't there any character development (unless you consider death a development)? Why does the bad guy literally let people beat each other to death in his tournament? Wouldn't that just attract the police? The film doesn't have a great portrayal of women, and the way the African-American character is just downright offensive. "Funky" music plays anytime he is on screen, he dies first, he's clearly supposed to be the comic relief of this movie.Ultimately, this is a hilaribad movie. The only thing that's really good about it is Bruce Lee, and he deserved to be in a much better movie. Don't be fooled by the high ratings, this is just a nostalgia trip for fans of martial arts movies or fans of Bruce Lee. If you're looking for something funny to watch with your friends, do a couple shots and this is your movie. If you're looking for a decent film, look elsewhere.And please, for the love of god, read the quotes on this website. It's basically the entire script, and it tells everything you need to know about this movie.

It was worth to watch this movie because it's very interesting how the movies were produced in the last few years and to see how the movie industry evolved in 44 years. I think that this movie aged well because it still inspire a lot of others action movies, even that you can see that some actions and blood re fake. I think because Roger was outside and the man thought that Roger killed the guys that worked for him. A movie that pay homage for Enter the Dragon is Kill Bill, produced by Tarantino, because you can see that the way that the actions were made are very similar to the movie Enter the Dragon. Enter the Dragon stole a lot of recognizable details from popular 007 film franchise.

I don't know if I'd watch this film again, but it was definitely worth my watching. Although it wasn't my favourite, some aspects of the film were definitely worth watching. The fight scenes were intense, and the imaginative scenes like the mirror scene made for really good suspense and creative shots. I think this film has aged well, despite the mediocre ADR and quality. The plot was very good and the camera angles were engaging throughout. I think Williams was killed instead of Roper because Williams was the 'clown' character in the movie, and killing him off created a more serious tone afterwards for the remaining part of the movie. A couple movies that played homage to this film are Kill Bill, and even Austin Powers (even though this was more of a parody, took elements from the film). This movie took from the James Bond movies in order to appeal to larger audiences using elements like the classic "spy-movie" music. All in all, pretty dang good movie.

I haven't seen a lot of kung-fu movies but I think that's part of the beauty in Enter the Dragon. You don't need a deep understanding of the genre to appreciate it. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes action movies. I think it was certainly worth my time mainly because of the acting and the not paper-thin plot that a lot of movies like this seem to have. Williams died instead of roper, in my personal opinion because he was the more disrespectful of the two and the fact that Han saw him less as a business partner like roper but as someone who flaunts the rules. This is because Williams is seen outside during the curfew and refuses to "rat" out Lee after seeing him outside. While Roper is a betting business man. Later movies like Karate kid pay homage with the tournament setting for the movie with the evil martial artist who disgraced the main character's martial art establishment or the art itself. This movie does almost shameless homage to earlier spy movies like James Bond with the music in some segments and the evil villain vibe Han gives off. In addition there is the master he has and underground lair that is very much like an old bond movie.