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Enter the Dragon

1973
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
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Rated 16 Oct 2018
79
81st
The battle with the guards WAS magnificent. His skill IS extraordinary. Enjoyable 70s nonsense which is at its best when Lee is beating seven colours of shit out of people. Saxon and Kelly bring some fun to the party, and that Schifrin score is quality. Despite its reputation, there are probably better kung fu films, but this has a fairly unique appeal.
Rated 05 Mar 2015
81
84th
The movie's villain is an island-owning creep with his office next to a torture museum and an opium den where 70's hippie ladies are being high as fukkkk all day. Even though I'm already an old guy, I think this is what I want to be when I grow up. Enter the Dragon is not perfect by a long stretch, but I don't give a hoot. Lee is the goddamn MAN and a delight to watch, the cast is neat and I love the proto-Mortal-Kombatness of it all. Cool, campy fun.
Rated 26 Feb 2007
3
38th
Why is this movie so highly regarded? Sure, Lee is an impressive physical specimen and an amazing martial artist, but a lot of the fight scenes in this movie are really pretty boring, because his opponents suck, so there's no balance. Bullying isn't fun. There's usually not any impressive choreography, either. There are a few good ones towards the end, though. And the story is just completely laughable.
Rated 08 Sep 2020
79
86th
The fighting is top notch, I love the paltry story to set up as much fisticuffs as possible, but realistically, Bruce Lee was never going to be a great actor like Chuck Nor...Jean Claude Van...Steven Seag...Dolph Lund...Tony Ja...You know what? He's does juuuuuuust fine.
Rated 03 Apr 2009
69
37th
I did get to like Bruce Lee, Captain KitchenKnifeSet, even Bolo's tits, but generally this isn't my cup of anything. I can't stand all of these kung-fu shouts and groans and the faces with 'the poo is coming' expression.
Rated 17 Jun 2009
71
53rd
To be brutally honest this is the only Bruce Lee movie with a passable plot, even though nowadays that plot has been done to death and really becomes cliche. However, Bruce Lee's fighting more than makes up for those faults. I wouldn't consider it landmark cinema, in fact there are some really amateur mistakes in terms of cinematography, and apparently Robert Clouse is a jerk, but Bruce Lee kicking ass and taking names catapult this flick from "painfully mediocre" to "pretty damn awesome."
Rated 23 Apr 2010
80
78th
Exit the Griffin! Fair warning: If you scribble a pissy review for this Bruce Lee will rise from the grave, rip your still beating heart from your chest and punt it straight back down your throat.
Rated 10 Jun 2012
75
77th
I actually liked it more for it 70sness camp than for the fighting. No way John Saxon could beat up Bolo Yeung!
Rated 11 Jul 2014
82
88th
The greatest body auteur of cinema brings to the screen not only the class and beauty of a man who is a master of subtle, light and strong moves, but an entire pack of conventions for martial arts films. It deals with an institution struggling with honor and one of its dissidents. Enter the Dragon also is a story of vengeance within a clandestine tournament, filled with amazing close-ups and marvelous visual solutions -- the mirror room sequence is a masterpiece.
Rated 19 Nov 2019
79
67th
Bruce Lee moonlights as a surf guitar secret agent since being a warrior-poet doesn't pay bills. Sure, he beats up like a hundred guys at the end but the speech at the beginning is what gets me juiced - "A good martial artist does not become tense but ready, not thinking but not dreaming - ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands I contract, when they contract I expand. When the opportunity comes I do not hit - it hits all by itself". Smash the mirror, destroy the self-image.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
98th
Bruce Lee is so charismatic and awesome that it hardly matters that the story barely makes sense and that his costars are nowhere near as good as he is.
Rated 30 Aug 2007
5
6th
Bruce's best. Which isn't saying a lot. MInd you, I dig Bruce's martial arts chops; but he can't act, his directors can't direct, and the scriptwriters... well, I doubt there were any scriptwriters.
Rated 20 Aug 2008
73
32nd
Overrated. Although this has some of the greatest (& beautifully shot) fight scenes ever filmed (esp. Bruce's battle w/ the guards underground), there's not enough of them, and the spaces in between aren't interesting enough. You basically wait for the fight scenes & it's the lack of action that makes me recommend almost all of Bruce's films (except Game of Death) over this one. Still... the fight scenes here score 100 plus.
Rated 07 May 2009
65
35th
The only draw here is watching the charismatic and surprisingly brotastic Lee break piles of human boards. The pacing is dreadful and the inanity of the plot had me shaking my head in disbelief. There's a few nicely composed shots here and there, but the only message I came away from this film with was that Bruce Lee was a fucking badass. Which for all I know makes this a success.
Rated 27 Jan 2010
75
50th
A classic of the genre and one of the few martial arts films to garner a significant mainstream following. Ultimately, there are better and more interesting martial arts films, but this one serves as a great primer for the uninitiated as it's exciting and has a sensible plot not prone to the goofy excesses much of the genre is know for.
Rated 20 Sep 2013
75
67th
Every wall of my apartment is made of mirrors just to confuse anyone who tries to come in and fight me.
Rated 16 Feb 2014
70
73rd
Lots of fun. It really is just Dr. No with martial arts, but then again, it's Dr. No with martial arts. Lee is as great as legend says, and I honestly liked his performance -- he knows everyone in the movie sucks compared to him, and he plays his character just the same. I like the medium shots, too; a nice change of pace from the shitty quick-cutting of today. Seriously, who can hate a movie in which Bruce Lee teams up with Carl Sagan to take down an Asian Richard Nixon?
Rated 07 Jul 2014
75
84th
Negatives first: It takes a while to get going, the flashbacks are awkward, and the low rent James Bond plot is a real letdown, even in the context of a kung fu flick, and especially because this film was more ambitious than the two bob films Lee made in Hong Kong. I rate this film for two major reasons: 1)Lee's intense physicality, and 2)its masterful 'update' of the mirror scene in The Lady Of Shanghai. It's one of the most inspired variations on a classic movie sequence I've ever seen.
Rated 27 Jun 2016
71
53rd
Cool, flashy fun with the barest of minimums in plot & characterisation. Well shot but bluntly paced & just barely structured. Bruce Lee is always interesting to watch & there are a couple of great fights (Bruce vs. guards underground is just pure awesome). It mostly lacks the physical & mental intensity of some of the better Hong Kong productions of the time & goes for a sanitised lobotomised Hollywood style. A tad disappointing but solid stupid fun with nice visuals & very high camp potential.
Rated 10 Mar 2020
75
64th
Look, if I knew this was just Mortal Kombat starring Bruce Lee, I would've watched this years ago. It's really not great, but that's what is so great about American kung fu movies. This is the epitome of fun.
Rated 26 Mar 2007
82
81st
I'd say the father of all martial arts films. Not the oldest, or the best, but arguably the most influential.
Rated 30 Jun 2007
20
19th
THIS is a classic? You have GOT to be kidding me! ... perhaps because it opened the door for the chop-socky genre in the West, but that's the only reason.
Rated 04 Aug 2007
11
51st
Probably the most tolerable---on anything more than a superficial level, anyway---martial arts film I've seen. It embodies many of the clichés of 70s Asian martial arts films: bad dubbing, even worse plot, virtually non-existent direction. However, the plot is just tight enough to keep you interested throughout what the film is really about: the thoroughly entertaining action sequences. Definitely worth a watch, but not something to turn many heads from a technical perspective.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
78
70th
A great premise for a martial arts film, and Lee is always a pleasure to watch, especially when he's fighting angry. My only complaint is that the film spends too much time on Kelly and Saxon - they're ok, but compared to Lee's their fighting scenes feel slow and hokey (esp. Saxon's).
Rated 29 Apr 2008
60
45th
doesn't live up to the hype
Rated 21 Oct 2008
85
61st
A very good martial arts classic with the legendary Bruce Lee.Some entertaining fightings scenes... and a good performance.
Rated 06 Apr 2009
83
77th
The final fight sequence was pretty dissapointing, but the film's kitshy, cheesy, cliched vibe gives it an entertaning camp value surpassed by probably no other action film. Also, watching Bruce Lee being the general all-around bad ass that Bruce Lee is, is one of the most rewarding experiences of all cinema.
Rated 02 Aug 2009
51
40th
Overhyped.
Rated 15 Nov 2009
15
4th
Remember that really cool Bruce Lee poster? They should have kept it at that!
Rated 22 Nov 2009
56
18th
Except for some of the fight scenes with Lee, this wasn't very good.
Rated 13 Jan 2010
80
61st
Entertaining and not as over the top as I expected, which is good thing. Balances silliness with a decently constructed story, but really it's Bruce Lee kicking ass that keeps things going and he does it with style.
Rated 04 Mar 2010
70
34th
Terrible overdubbing, but that's to be expected, minimal production values and at times even the action is cheesy, but this does retain a modicum of entertainment--all, of course, from Lee's ass kicking. If this were a non-stop thrill ride I'd have thought it definitely worthy of praise, but it just can't hold water compared with the martial arts stuff we've seen in recent years.
Rated 12 Mar 2010
61
62nd
Mostly americanized and probably most famous Bruce Lee film. Story is very simple, and doesn't always make sense. But it's the movie that spawned the whole illegal-martial-arts-tournaments subgenre. Fighting isn't the best you can see in the film with Bruce Lee, but it is the most colorful and very entertaining. Mirror effects in the end are great, and very innovative.
Rated 13 Mar 2010
70
56th
There is only one reason to watch this film and that's to see Bruce Lee in form. There's some really iconic images in this film such as the hall with mirrors and the legendary tournament fight. Overall though it's marred by a silly 70's plot, bad pacing, and terrible dialog. The choreography isn't all that great either and pales in comparison with some of the fantastic stuff Shaw Bros was putting out in Hong Kong during this era.
Rated 21 Apr 2010
4
34th
Quite disappointing. Nothing stood out, the fight scenes felt uninspired and somehow watching Bruce Lee beat up everyone just doesn't carry the movie. I mean the plot surely wouldn't. Upon release and now-a-days its well praised, deemed important and has received cult classic status and my response is - why?
Rated 01 Sep 2010
40
54th
Professional guy-puncher makes a movie about guys getting punched. Watch it with someone you love.
Rated 24 Sep 2010
74
90th
They story is so shoddy that it's unintentionally hilarious anytime Lee isn't kicking someone in the face, but when he is fighting it's entertaining and was unlike anything I had seen before.
Rated 18 Apr 2011
70
30th
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Rated 07 Sep 2011
77
66th
Man some of the dubbing is so bad. Besides that, this is pretty good. A simple plot gets us where we're going so we can see Bruce Lee kick ass all over the place.
Rated 28 Mar 2012
85
91st
Superb film. Bruce Lee is phenomenal. No fancy camera tricks in this. Bruce does all his own stunts. Great cast. Great fighting scenes. Bruce Lees masterpiece.
Rated 04 May 2012
100
91st
A Kung Fu classic. Who cares about anything else on film, or in the world, if Bruce Lee is on the screen?
Rated 10 Jul 2014
45
45th
John Saxon has been in a remarkable number of movies in which someone has knives for fingers. Also, who or what is 'the dragon'? Who enters it? Or is it entering? Is Bruce Lee the dragon, entering...the film?
Rated 13 Jan 2015
81
60th
Using this for my thesis as well. Lee showed that Asian men could be action heroes too, not just sidekicks. However, this movie is still problematic (desexaulization of Lee). Still, it does interesting things with race (friendship between Roper and Williams). Overall, not bad.
Rated 26 Jun 2017
71
59th
Really fun, and it has a satisfyingly sleazy aura.
Rated 17 Mar 2018
70
41st
Was super drunk watching this, thought it was awesome as it was happening but felt a bit disappointed at the end. Some great fight scenes that I'd already seen most of on Youtube.
Rated 14 Jul 2020
50
35th
The fights where people run into shot to get hit once are very underwhelming and the moans are weird, but a couple of the one on one fights are good. The dubbing is very noticeable throughout and the acting isn't great, though the spy plot is better than I expected.
Rated 08 Jan 2021
100
91st
Lee is brought in by the Secret Service to compete in a martial arts tournament on an island ruled by a drug dealer. Lee is ordered to take him out, but there should be no weapons on the island. However, the kung fu expert Lee is a weapon in itself. What follows is a battle of life and death.
Rated 20 Nov 2022
70
56th
Han is decadent because he is opening up to the rest of the world and exporting stuff, just like the modernizing Hong Kong. Lee's fight is the good old Shaolin teaching's Stoicism fighting against decadent Westernization (traficcing girls and opium to the West). No surprise that help comes from a black panther! But beyond that fun and watchable.
Rated 31 Dec 2006
86
65th
A must-see classic, of course, but certainly not the greatest martial arts movie ever made, and not even Bruce Lee at his best.
Rated 09 Jan 2007
72
66th
Fight sports legend Bruce Lee's one of the classic movie Enter Dragon gives you sprinkle of bliss...
Rated 29 Jan 2007
81
80th
Bruce Lee is the Man. Fact.
Rated 18 Mar 2007
83
67th
Its like theHALO of martial arts nmovies
Rated 25 Apr 2007
80
61st
Lee's fight against Oharra is probably the best thing about this entire movie. I mean, not that the rest of is no good, either!
Rated 18 May 2007
30
10th
Bruce Lee is fast... I wish the pacing of the film coulda kept up.
Rated 24 May 2007
86
98th
The standard bearer for a genre.
Rated 26 May 2007
80
89th
Bruce Lee is the man.
Rated 04 Jun 2007
83
69th
Though cheesy and dated, Enter the Dragon is nonetheless Bruce Lee's masterpiece. The martial arts action is fierce and fantastic, and Lee's cool, philosophical character distract from the silly secret agent story. Really good!
Rated 09 Jun 2007
80
75th
Doesn't really stand the test of time too well but it's still watchable and enjoyable.
Rated 11 Jun 2007
90
86th
Quintessential badass martial arts movie.
Rated 27 Jun 2007
85
91st
I never say no to a bit of chopsocky, and this is Bruce Lee at his cool best. Best of all, I got to see this on the big screen when it first came out (How I don't know, I was only ten, but hey, I saw it all else can fugg off)
Rated 12 Jul 2007
94
89th
One of Lee's best.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
82
73rd
Bruce Lee: You left us far too soon.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
34th
Only seeing this movie after having watched THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE led to a strange case of déjà vu. The only film I have seen with this star.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
84th
Bruce's best work.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
79th
What's to like or not to like? Classic must see Bruce Kung-fu.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
31
24th
It's good for what it is, but I really never cared for what it is.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
71st
classe bruce lee, good stuff
Rated 14 Aug 2007
50
35th
Great for the action sequences the acting leaves a lot to be desired plus the script needed a little work lol.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
100
97th
Cult classic. A definite must-see.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
55th
If it weren't for the ability and legend of Bruce Lee, these may have been some of the most ridiculous action flicks I've ever seen.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
87th
The definitive Bruce Lee film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
82nd
Kung Fu classic!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
91st
The widly released version isn't that special, see the orriginal uncut version if possible. It's far and away a better movie, despite only 15 minutes of extra footage.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
86
92nd
What I'd give to see a young Chuck Norris vs Bruce Lee. What the heck was Kareem Abdul Jabbar doing in this movie...guess it needed comic relief.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
95
86th
Bruce Lee is amazing. The overall style/characters etc.. is great in that half ironic/half really enjoying it sort of way.
Rated 22 Aug 2007
89
93rd
Excellent
Rated 30 Aug 2007
79
65th
It's like a combination of a kung fu movie and a parody of one. Works anyway.
Rated 03 Feb 2008
50
33rd
OK, so this is the seminal martial-arts movie. I am not impressed. Bruce Lee is just not that charismatic a hero, the visual style is dull, the fight scenes are obviously choreographed, and too much of everything is stolen from better movies
Rated 06 Jul 2008
55
28th
He kicked ass. HE KICKED ASS.
Rated 12 Jul 2008
89
89th
Brilliant showcase for Lee's impressive martial arts and 'muscles on muscles'. I enjoy everything about this movie.
Rated 28 Jul 2008
87
63rd
Really weird story but great action.
Rated 23 Aug 2008
70
58th
not a big fan of the genre, but you have to respect Bruce Lee. Bonus points for the John Saxon factor.
Rated 14 Oct 2008
20
15th
Det kan sgu godt være at det er god karate, men alligevel en åndssvag film...
Rated 15 Oct 2008
88
63rd
The story is crap but the action scenes are some of the best on film.
Rated 24 Nov 2008
90
62nd
the man
Rated 04 Jan 2009
95
45th
Kung-Fu classic
Rated 15 Jan 2009
90
85th
One of the best martial arts movies around.
Rated 26 Jan 2009
80
88th
#1 Bruce Lee movie.
Rated 29 Jan 2009
50
21st
Ok, it's a classic, but the only person in the cast with any skill (by current movie standards) in martial arts is Bruce himself, and the plot? Bwahahaha!
Rated 26 Feb 2009
79
59th
Seminal 70's martial arts flick. Legendary Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim kelly beat the snot out of the bad guys. Only dissapointment? No Bruce v Bolo. Classic Kung Fu in every way.
Rated 01 Mar 2009
45
24th
standard
Rated 20 Apr 2009
100
90th
The greatest martial arts film ever, Bruce Lee at his finest.
Rated 01 Jun 2009
87
53rd
Bruce Lee was wonderful. Dated but still relevant.
Rated 02 Jul 2009
90
88th
Bruce Lee is the man.
Rated 23 Jul 2009
60
29th
I'm not too big on Bruce Lee....
Rated 26 Jul 2009
3
74th
Bruce Lee can kick your head in much faster than the pacing in this flick. It's a weird recommendation from me, as there are a lot of obvious flaws in this picture, but it's such a classic that I'll always love it. I really liked Lee's on screen presence.
Rated 19 Aug 2009
90
82nd
Quintessential Bruce Lee
Rated 29 Oct 2009
75
74th
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Rated 13 Mar 2010
65
31st
Pretty rubbish concept, pretty poor acting but, of course, the fighting is incredible. This is the first Bruce Lee film I've watched, having my crappy martial arts movie initiation mostly in the works of Van-Damme. Lee brings a manic intensity combined with breathtaking skills to each fight scene, culminating in the classic confrontation with the rather weak cardboard cut-out villain Han in the maze of mirrors. Good fun.
Rated 12 May 2010
75
35th
What was most certainly a precursor to the Mortal Kombat series of games/films, Enter the Dragon puts us into the world of martial arts competition, espionage, lust, and revenge. The final fight in a hall of mirrors is particularly memorable and hearkens back to The Man with the Golden Gun, but with eastern sensibilities (no guns!).

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