Enter the Dragon

ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) - Oct. 15, 2005
Well, that wasn't very good. The "plot" involved three guys going to an island to take down some bad guy holding a fighting competition of some sort. I don't know. This being a kung-fu movie, things like plot and characters and... being good... (and this movie had none of these things) aren't really necessary if the action is good. But for the first hour and a half or so there was almost no action -- there were LONG sequences in which absolutely nothing happens, and then when some action finally comes to break up the monotony it only lasts a minute or two (and it's not even that great). Finally right at the end there's actually some good action with Bruce Lee taking on dozens of the bad guy's henchmen, but really, it's too late by then. And then there's the really long confrontation with the bad guy that takes place in a room full of mirrors that just comes off as an inferior rip-off of the same scene from the Lady from Shanghai. I really don't understand why this movie is regarded as a classic; it pretty much sucks. *1/2