The Big Boss (DVD)

After excellent success on Western TV - co-starring as Kato in The Green Hornet and appearances in the film Marlow and on TV series, Longstreet, Bruce Lee was ready to star on the big screen. The Big Boss provided Bruce Lee with that cinematic debut to Chinese audiences. The Big Boss exhibits Bruce Lee as a Cheng Chao-An - a country boy who has moved to a small town with his uncle to be with his cousins to start a new life. He starts working for the local ice factory where his family work, little knowing that the Big Boss is using the factory to smuggle drugs in. A few employees, that happen to be Bruce's family, discover the secret and are killed by The Big ...  Read the complete review

There are quite a few versions of Bruce Lee classic 'The Big Boss' available on DVD around the world (note that the movie is titled 'Fists of Fury' in the US), however, the Hong Kong Legends Region 2 release is easily the best among them. Hong Kong Legends have spent a lot of time restoring the original print, and have produced a superb disc, doing justice to the film's role in Hong Kong movie history. THE FILM Bruce Lee plays Cheng Chao An, a migrant worker who travels to Thailand in search of work, and stays with his extended family there. He finds work in an ice factory, only to discover that the company is a front for a ...  Read the complete review

First I'll rapidly address some key issues: 1) I'm a huge fan of Bruce Lee and yes I do believe he was the greatest martial artist. 2) Don't ever bother with any version of this movie except the Hong Kong Legends one. There are a few more, but they are worthless when compared to the HKL one, especially in the picture quality department. The Story: Bruce Lee finds a job in a local factory courtesy of his uncle. During the film, he's provoked by the henchmen and a couple of his colleagues disappear (read are murdered), as a way to cover up the less licit activities that go on in the factory. Bruce tries not to respond to the agravations ...  Read the complete review

Contrary to popular opinion, this isn't Bruce Lee's first movie. To Hong Kong cinemagoers, Bruce Lee was already a familiar name from his numerous appearances as a child actor. In the 1960s, Lee travelled to Hollywood, appearing in the television series "The Green Hornet" and the film 'Marlowe'. However, Lee found little success breaking into Hollywood, so returned to Hong Kong. The opposition that he faced back there, however, was unsurprisingly great – the analogy drawn by one Hong Kong cinema expert is the idea of Macauley Culkin returning to Hollywood, and asking to be in 'Rambo IV'. Nonetheless, Raymond Chow offered Lee a ...  Read the complete review

I think that this film has got to be one of the best martial arts films of our time. The speed of which Bruce Lee enforces his technique is amazing. I don't think we will ever see another martial artist as fast as Bruce Lee without camera tricks. There was only one fault i found with this film which i didn't like. This film, along with his other films he starred in, excluding "enter the dragon," has been edited for UK viewers and maybe other countries aswell. It was edited because at the time that it was released it was too "violent" for our "taste". Well I think, now i have seen all the films, that it shouldn't be ...  Read the complete review