KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Nonureva Really Surprised!

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

polizzicraig I enjoyed watching the 50 episodes and although the acting is pretty poor it's worth watching. Another thing that annoyed me was reading the subtitles the whole series, it would of been more authentic if it had subtitles at the beginning in China but once he was in America switched it to English. I still enjoyed it, the guy that plays Bruce Lee looks and acts exactly like him and the action scenes are quite good. I highly recommend this series, especially if your a huge Bruce Lee fan like myself. The legend of Bruce Lee lives on through this series. Loved it.

Eric B Having watched all 50 episodes, I have to say I did enjoy this series, albeit being draggy and boring at times. What I do find interesting is how they took artistic license to change anything at will, here are a few examples of how they busted their own agenda or didn't catch the faux pas at editing: 1. Master Ip - in reality, he was clean shaven, but of course they had to give him a long white beard to make him look venerable. Ironic since part of Bruce's frustration with Hollywood was their stigmatized view of Chinese as being "pigtail wearing" , but yet the series goes to great length promoting this stereotype. 2. Too many examples of the time being out of context with late 1960's early 70's. a. Airport in Hong Kong is Chep Lap Kok, not the older Kai Tak. b. Scenes in Seattle with the restaurant Chipotle behind them. c. Countless other scenes. 3. Episode 47 where a Cathy Pacific jet is landing, but the name is shown backwards on the jet due to the camera not shooting a direct shot (cificaP yhtaC).I also wonder why they changed his name from Lee Jun Fan to Lee Xiao Long, along with other name changes throughout his lifetime, like Jame Colburn became Douglas?I endured the series because I adore Bruce Lee, but would like to know why they were so sloppy with these errors and also the radial changes to people's identities.

wilwilwel I've watched 14 episodes now and I can't stop watching. I had to write this review because I really love this series till now and I haven't seen a review yet with the thoughts that I have. I have been a Bruce Lee fan only since my twenties. When I was a kid, I did not like Bruce Lee because people ridiculed him in front of me, since I'm an overseas Chinese, even though I practiced Wu Shu in my teens. But back then I didn't really know him. I watched his movies for the first time only in my twenties, "Way of the Dragon" being my favourite. Since then, I am a huge fan. I've collected and watched numerous of his documentaries read several of his books, and even took some Wing Chun lessons for a while. I've seen several "Bruceploitations" and lately Bruce Lee seems to be getting more attention with movie releases like the Yip Man trilogy, Bruce Lee my brother and this TV series.This t.v. series is not like a Hollywood movie or a Hong Kong Bruce Lee movie, rather it has much more a "common" feel. At times it even seems you're watching a home video! But to me, this feels much better, because everything seems to be more "realistic" than a Hollywood movie where everything seems "perfect" (e.g. the lighting etc). This imperfectness makes it feel like you're really "there" reliving Bruce's life. The storyline is good although many things are not factual, the actors are good and during some scenes I even got emotional. Also, watching Bruce's early life and how he deals with things, really inspires me. The fact that it is a 50 episode TV series is even better as you really get to "spend time with Bruce" for very long times.I'm watching the Chinese version with Chinese simplified subtitles and Mandarin spoken language. I've tried to find the Cantonese or English dubbed versions but couldn't find it. Since I'm not a native Mandarin I am pausing it almost every few seconds to read the subtitles to understand everything. But this way I can also learn Mandarin! I've seen several reviews on the internet reviewing the shortened version of this series to 3 hours and they are really bad. I think that is justified since I think it would be more like a trailer of the series.If you're a fan of Bruce, I highly recommend this series.

scronan2000 I found this series on Hulu during an afternoon when I couldn't find anything else to watch, which should tell you something right there. My initial reaction was surprise - how could there have been a series about Bruce Lee's younger years that I'd never even heard of? But after watching only a few episodes I have the answer - this series is truly and utterly horrible.I'm honestly a very forgiving person regarding flaws and mistakes in movies and television. And regarding Bruce Lee himself - I'm not much of an expert on his biography, in fact he actually died a year before I was even born. But I have spent nearly half of my life studying Chinese martial arts so Bruce has always been an idol of mine since I was very young. I've had the fortune to actually meet two people who trained with him and hear their thoughts of what he was like off the screen (one of whom took his classes in Seattle when he first started teaching, the other got to feel his one inch punch). Both of these gentlemen described him as the real deal and with a lot of respect.It is a very sad thing that this respect was not given to Bruce in this poorly made series. To start with - the dialog is all in very hyper paced Mandarin (odd considering that Bruce spoke Cantonese, or at least that's what I've read), and this is pretty frustrating as he interacts with the American and British people in the series who are clearly speaking English. There are even times where you read the lips of the actor who plays Bruce and can tell that he is actually speaking English in some parts (especially when he comes to the US). Why they chose to just use Mandarin I'm unsure - and for a native English speaker this is very frustrating. Think of the depth that could have been added with the actors switching between the two languages! We do get some English subtitles, but they are very small, quite bright and I found them very hard to focus on and whomever did such shoddy work should be kicked in the head, repeatedly.This series does have some okay parts - but it is mainly filled with insipid drama, and the opening theme song is so atrocious that I had to skip over it. The soundtrack is filled with a plethora of overly emotive inducing sounds and sappy mood music...and every martial art move is buffered into oblivion by completely ridiculous WHOOSH sounds. It's just too much...I mean in some parts people just move an inch and it sounds like someone is flapping a large beach towel (I'd hate to see what it would sound like if they actually broke wind). Speaking of which - the actor that plays Bruce simply looks too old for the part. And some of his foes...the maniacal guy with a broom who starts a brawl with a vertical flipping kick (right out of Street Fighter, the video game) seems so over the top...while the boxing champ looks like the kind of guy you'd see sitting on the beach with a boogie board and a hash pipe (and hey, that long hair in his eyes is very helpful when boxing). So much time is spent preparing for that fight...and its over in about 15 seconds...ridiculous.Other things that come to mind - Bruce Lee's cute and bubbly girlfriend is ANNOYING and ruins every scene she is in. His family spends most of their time spouting unnecessary bleeding heart diatribe...while they don't even bother to tell you much about his siblings. Even with my limited knowledge of Bruce's life, it is quite obvious from the get-go that the term "loosely based on reality" is an understatement of truly epic proportions. It was mostly forgivable during the first 5 episodes, and I'll admit that the story captured my attention enough to keep watching. But once Bruce arrives in the US in episode 6, the errors become so glaring that I stopped watching midway through because I'd simply had enough. Let's go over a few of them: 1) Bruce hands the taxi driver a wad of cash, and you can clearly see a modern dollar bill in his hand. I can understand a show being low budget, but this is unforgivable.2) When Bruce is collecting trash, you see a pizza box that says "Costco Pizza"...clearly from our modern era. No effort whatsoever here...I guess they just got some trash from the studio where they filmed this train wreck and called it good? 3) The Budget rental vehicles - complete with modern logos...and you know, I'm going to stop here, because I know there are many more...and as a viewer, you start to think that Bruce is really in 1999 or 2010 rather than the late 50s or early 60s. It's like they just completely gave up (or didn't care in the first place).The bottom line here is - I do not recommend watching this series at all. With all of the afore mentioned problems (any many more that I'm too tired to list), it is just a big mangled pile of crap. If you are a true Bruce Lee fan, do the man the honor he deserves and watch his movies where we can see him doing what he does best. The only positive I can add is that watching this will help you brush up on your Mandarin - however be warned that the translation seems to be crappy as well. I don't speak much of the language myself - but I found many parts where what I heard being spoken vs what was in the subtitles to be missing a lot. I'm sure anyone with a better command of the language noticed even more.Very bad indeed. :(