Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
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There’s a scene here where Bruce Lee kicks a guy through a wall & the guy leaves an outline of his body on the wall like a cartoon character — and i bellowed with joyous laughter.
Unionize with your fists.
You come at Bruce Lee with a knife he’ll kick it out of your hand. A split second later he’ll kick your head. Come at him with two knives and he’ll tie one hand up with a shirt while kicking the second away AT THE SAME TIME!
This is the movie that launched Bruce Lee into being one of the biggest stars in the world. It’s not hard to see why. His moves are quick, fluid, and awe inspiring. His humor is on full display; revenge face is on point! Check out my movie podcast Fields of Glory.
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"But what about your oath of non-violence?" - Everyone in this movie,
I don't know, I like my Bruce Lee a little less boring.
Bruce Lee goes off to the country to visit cousins and work in an ice factory. Bruce Lee has taken an oath of nonviolence but these motherfuckers don't listen. The bad guys in this area beat up women and children and fuck up everything in sight. When these punks go too far it's time for Lee to clean up the streets. It's a simple film that is entertaining and has a basic message about the right and wrong times to use violence.
I really like the children's music that plays every time you see his promise…
Not too exciting between the fights, lots of time spent waiting around for the characters to catch up to what we already know and for Bruce Lee to forget about his silly no-violence oath and just start throwing punches. Once he’s straight-up murdering people with an ice pick and going into one man rampage mode I was reminded of why I watched this in the first place.
Bruce Lee may be the most narcissistic movie star of all-time, but you can't help but be entranced by him, he's just as magnetic as he thinks he is.
Immigrant workers in a foreign country, exploited by a rapacious capitalist as drug dealer. Takes forever for Bruce to realize that maybe his boss is lying to him. But once he does, everyone dies.
American distributors had little faith in how this 1971 Bruce Lee vehicle from Hong Kong would fare upon release in the U.S., revising the dubbing and music until finally releasing it in 1973 as Fists of Fury. It's a bizarre and messily assembled beast, but those distributors might've been onto something because this cut of Big Boss also happens to be the Kung Fu film that made me fall in love with Kung Fu films...and with the big brass score and ultra cheap flashing Bruce Lee cut-out animation during the opening credits, I was instantly on board.
What followed was a movie that was (and remains still) such a striking combination of cool, on-point old school martial arts cinema and…
A grindhouse of the 1970s Chop Socky Martial Arts movement. It’s the first movie that Bruce Lee made with Golden Harvest studios, so this is a vital movie for the movement.
It’s about Cheng Chao-An (Bruce Lee), a Chinese who after moving to Thailand with his uncle, to work at an ice factory, has some trouble with the hierarchical superiors.
This movie is a little bit boring, I’m not gonna lie, but it was worth waiting for the last scene, which is perfectly made, such an astonishing ending. The Big Boss also has that humorous touch that we are used to see in his next and more popular movies.
I won’t compare this movie with the Hollywood works of Bruce Lee,…
The final act is brilliant, has a lot of fighting and stunts but the story isn't that great, it takes a while for things to happen, it's very gory and violent though. It has its moments but the whole of the film didn't impress me.
This is the first of the four action movies Bruce Lee starred in between 1971 and 1973 that form the bedrock of his iconic status. It was a monumental hit in Hong Kong in its day, although nowadays I don't think it's anyone's favourite of the four. Nevertheless, I am occasionally struck by the desire to watch Bruce Lee, and there's not a lot to choose from. It would have been nice if he could have lived even just a year or two longer so he could have made a few better movies.
Bruce was struggling for money and acting roles in Hollywood when he accepted the offer from Golden Harvest to make two cheap movies in Hong Kong. Reportedly…
Workers of the World Unite...with My Fists!
A sort of inception for the Kung-Fu Craze that would sweep not just Hong Kong and America, but the world. Lee waits to start kicking ass ‘till around the halfway mark, at which point he is unstoppably badass—from the very beginning it is clear: the man is a force. And while this fact would become firmly cemented in the minds of millions in the coming years, this is the one that first established Lee as the ultimate maestro of righteous vengeance
Start a union, kill your boss.
