Many mock Lee's films as being silly and just consisting of fighting. ![]() The ending is the most powerful and moving of all the Lee films, the final freeze frame managing to encapsulate Lee's grace and power in a single shot. By contrast, Lee's final farewell to his girlfriend is all the more powerful for being done completely without dialogue at all. The film drags somewhat in the middle although the lengthy dialogue scene between Lee and his girlfriend was another step forward for the Hong Kong martial arts movie, vivid proof that Lee was a pretty good ACTOR. Lee was allowed to choreograph his own fights and his battle with Japanese martial artists in their school and climactic duels with a Russian boxer and a Japanese swordsman remains classic fight scenes. However, it is handled in a more realistic way then usual and technically it is far superior. Here, we have the 'student sets out to avenge his master's death' which was already the major storyline of most martial arts films. The second of the Bruce Lee-starring movies is in terms of plot a lot less interesting than the first.
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