In this film, Bruce Lee plays Lee (of course) of the Shaolin Temple. He was sent by his teacher and some British officer guy to an island owned by a former student of the Temple. Soon, he is joined by two Americans, and they all enter a fighting tournament held on the island. The former student's name is Han, and he uses the island to prepare opium for selling. He is an evil drug lord. oooo.
My favorite character was Williams. He had a great fighting style, or maybe lack of style, but it was effective. Plus he had a very relaxed attitude and sported quite the fro. I knew that he could win, but Han has dirty tricks and defeated him. Sadly, the actor playing Williams, Jim Kelly, recently passed away on June 29th of cancer.
So, this movie is more of a crime caper with our heroes defeating the evil drug lords (because drugs are bad, mmmkay) with some kung fu fighting thrown in there. However, there are a lot of opportunities to kung fu fight! I love all the fighting sequences, especially when Lee in down in the drug-making basement fighting the guards. Lee moved so fast they had to film him at 32 fps (frames per second) and then slow the film down to the usual 24 fps so we can actually see his moves.
What I really didn't understand was Han's fake hand. Is it his left or right hand? When he's fighting Lee, the fake hand switches several times. When he takes the hot white guy (I was too distracted by his chest hair to learn his name) on a tour, he shows off all of the hand weapons, which are all left. But when they reach the skeleton hand, that's a right hand! When he slashes at Lee with his knife hand, that's his right hand, but he kills Williams with his left hand! If only one of his hands is supposed to be fake, why is it so hard to keep using the same hand in every take? Why?
Overall, I liked this movie because it's full of action, and will later be alluded to in many other films. I mean a lot. I will give this film a 6/10.
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