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It's a fun watch with some good fight scenes and Jason Scott Lee did a good job (I think this is the role that put him on the map), but you have to question how much of it was actually based on his life. There are some definite events that it was based on, but just how much is questionable. At least it (now) says a fictionalized tale here on IMDB. I owned the VHS tape and I don't think the box ever made that clear, trying to make it as if it was mostly real, but I'll take this one over the other fictionalized accounts that have come since (like "The Legend of Bruce Lee" and "Birth of the Dragon"). Oh, and after watching 60 second Ed Parker tournament match, watch it again and time it. If I remember correctly, that one minute match took them around 3 minutes and 6 seconds to tell.

A "modern take"? More like the most ridiculous and hilarious fictional tale of Bruce Lee yet, especially the end. As a movie, it is not terrible and I can see this working if they used fictional characters (mainly the end part), but to take a pure piece of made up fiction and call it a modern take on a real event or from the life of someone is just misleading. No wonder why the average score is low.

I think it is worth a watch, but if you know anything about Bruce Lee's life and history, go into it knowing what you will see is ridiculous and will be in no way accurate in any historical context and maybe get ready to laugh.

I saw this show on Hulu before you had to pay for Hulu and somehow it was a 30 episode format instead of 50 and the episodes in the middle got so boring, I wished it was around 20 episodes and can't imagine what 50 would be like. I can appreciate what they did with the small budget, but it would have been better and cheaper with less episodes.

I like how they actually used people from his life and encounters, but it's highly fictionalized and I can't believe they "demoted" Dan Inosanto into some kind of arm chair scholar documenting JKD and that's it. C'mon, he's Bruce Lee's most well known student and still practicing to this day! And even though I just mentioned that they took real people from his life...the famous fight in this show wasn't with Wong Jack Man?