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The Way of the Dragon

"The Colosseum . . the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris."

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

Top Cast

  • Bruce Lee

    Bruce Lee

    Tang Lung

  • Nora Miao

    Nora Miao

    Chen Ching Hua

  • Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris

    Colt

  • Wei Ping-Ao

    Wei Ping-Ao

    Ho

  • Huang Tsung-Hsun

    Huang Tsung-Hsun

    'Uncle' Wang

  • Robert Wall

    Robert Wall

    Fred

  • Hwang In-shik

    Hwang In-shik

    Japanese Fighter

  • Chin Ti

    Chin Ti

    Ah Quen

  • Tony Liu Tian-jue

    Tony Liu Tian-jue

    Tony

Overview

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

Rating

7.4 / 10
1,297 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Dec 17, 2024

    You can certainly see that the camera loved the charismatic Bruce Lee in this otherwise rather predicable action adventure. He's the young "Tang" who arrives in Rome from Hong Kong to help out in a family restaurant that's under siege from the local mafia who want the premises for themselves. His arrival is quite timely as his adeptness with Kung Fu helps him to eradicate the local enforcers with comfortable ease. In the end they decide to get serious - perhaps the building is on an oil well, or something, so draft in the legendary "Colt" (Chuck Norris) who has the young upstart "Tang" firmly in his sights. There is astonishing agility on display here from an array of experts in this, and other, martial arts that showcase their athleticism and fleetness-of-foot using hands, improvised weapons, balance and precision to exhibit the artistic elements of this deadly form of combat really well. Away from those precisely staged activities, though, the rest of this is a rather ordinarily constructed drama that makes as much of visionary director Lee's limitations as an actor as it extols his skills as a fighter. Essentially, we can live without many of the first eighty minutes, especially the romantic interludes which come across as particularly wooden, and just settle down for a denouement that would have had Nero himself gripped from his throne in the ancient Coliseum.

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