January 13, 2011

Enter the Dragon

Lynn's Druthers Marathon, part 1



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Title: Enter the Dragon
Year: 1973
Length: 110 minutes
Director: Robert Clouse
Writer: Michael Allin
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Jim Kelly
Music: Lalo Schifrin
I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Synopsis: a marshal arts master enters a crime lord's tournament as a British spy



My reaction
Concept:3/4 (Good)
Story:0/4 (Terrible) He shows up, sneaks around, then beats everyone up. That's the whole story.
Characters:2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog:2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing:1/4 (Bad) I'd guess the fight scenes to take up about 30 minutes of the movie; if that's right, then there's no reason for the movie to be longer than, say, 35 minutes. Seriously, though, it's badly edited (except for the fight scenes, which are great) and feels very long.
Cinematography:3/4 (Good)
Special effects/design:2/4 (Indifferent) Visually, there's some greatness. The sound is terrible.
Acting:3/4 (Good)
Music:3/4 (Good) Fun.
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, 3/4 (Good)). Bruce Lee is totally awesome, and everything he did on this movie (such as the fight choreography) is great. It's frustrating, though, that he's wasted on a movie that would otherwise be shit.
Objective Rating (Average):2.2/4 (Okay)
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4 comments:

  1. JeffJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:02 AM

    ... I think I'm thinking of the movie where Chuck Norris is the guest-star bad guy.

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  2. JeffJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:02 AM

    Is this the movie with the pointless, long zoom-in and closeup of a kitten in the middle of a fight scene? Or is that one of the sequels to Enter the Dragon?

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  3. JeffJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:05 AM

    That's Way of the Dragon, never mind.

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  4. DanielJanuary 13, 2011 at 3:23 AM

    There is a cat in this one, though. The bad guy puts his cat on a guillotine and is all, "so what do you think of that?"

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