Re-viewed Way of the Dragon, written, directed, and acted in by Bruce Lee himself. He was also its fight master. I did so because my 1/4 Enterbay Way of the Dragon arrived yesterday.

This is probably the only movie in which Bruce Lee shows us his sense of humor. Since he was the director, he had carte blanche to laugh at himself. It is set in Rome and most probably began as a single-scene idea: the showdown in the colosseum, around which the rest of the story seems to have been built. A lot of exteriors were actually shot in Rome, but I suspect that most of the sequences, especially the interiors and the backyard scenes, were shot in Hong Kong.

The fight scenes are still fantastic, of course, but the entire production is rather stagy--it is comprised of entrances and exits. As a matter of fact, most scenes begin and end with people literally going through doors. (The director WAS a Drama/Theater major, after all.)

My favorite villain, Wei Ping Ao (of Fist of Fury) is in this movie too.

Love that kitten, which kept the highly-contrived colosseum scene interesting.

Just one little thing: I really don't think those wooden darts work.