Always amazes me that Jet Li was able to remake a Bruce Lee movie and pull it off.

Ended up being a little disappointed in this one, given its reputation as The Greatest Martial Arts Movie Ever. The fights are great of course, but they lack the show-offy intricacy of other Yuen Woo-Ping movies like Dreadnaught or Tai Chi Master.

The rest of the movie is sort of like a more nuanced, "realistic" retelling of the Bruce Lee movie Fist of Fury. I prefer the original.

Jet Li at his best.

A brilliant remake of Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury". Great fighting scenes by all the casts especially Jet Li, an outcast student of Jing Wu school who reforms the school's orthodox fighting techniques by adopting Japanese fighting style that he feels should improve the fighting's effectiveness. Chen Zhen avenged the death of his beloved master because of poisoning by the Japanese. Great performance by legendary actor Yasuaki Kurata.

This is one of the best kung fu movies out there, one of my favs. Epic fight scenes. Jet Li is kicking arse and taking names.

The belt is mightier than the sword in one of Jet Li's greatest films. A remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, this is a case where the remake is better than the original. As strong as the fight sequences are, the originals are legendary. That doesn't make them bad, far from it. But what makes this better is the tone and characterization, the Japanese may be the bad guys but they are depicted with a less more nuance than the mustache flicking stereotypes they once were. One unshakable problem is the dub, Yasuaki Kurata has two extra voice-actors, both in the graveyard scene - In the Cantonese version - it's distracting. But that is just an observation. I love this film as a bonafide genre masterpiece.

This is one of the only movies where I must have seen it because I voted for it on IMDB, but I remember literally nothing about it. I know that that stupid Romeo Must Die movie came out so I wanted to see more Jet Li, so I watched this. But as for the movie itself, I remember zero. I rated it favorably though, so it couldn't have been too bad.

"Fist of Legend" es una de las mejores peliculas de Jet Li y uno de los despliegues mas espectaculares de artes marciales que he visto en una pelicula (las coreografias son asombrosas). Lo que mas sorprende es que ademas de contener muy buenas escenas de accion, la historia tambien es envolvente con toques politicos; basicamente nos muestra los conflictos sociales entre chinos y japoneses en los treintas y la discriminacion que surgio debido a estos.
"Fist of Legend" es una pelicula que contiene los tipicos cliches de este tipo de cintas pero que resulta en una propuesta fresca y sumamente entretenida que merece ser citada como uno de los mejores ejemplos de este genero. Se la recomiendo ampliamente a fanaticos de las artes marciales.

Jet Li at his best, before Hollywood got hold of him.

The opening fight, where Li disables a group of attackers by dislocating a different joint on each, is particularly enjoyable.

Still to date, Jet Li's best movie

Very worthy of the remake.

Great Martial Arts film starring Jet Li before he became a huge superstar in the US.

Great film! Alltime classic, watched with Bey Logan's audio commentary which was a great viewing pleasure