Bruce Lee is the ultimate cinematic badass. You can make arguments
for a handful of others to take that throne, but it’s nigh on impossible to
come up with one truly knocks him out of the top spot. Over the years there
have been a number of biopics—the wildly inaccurate Dragon, Manfred
Wong’s Bruce Lee, My Brother (aka Young Bruce
Lee and a few other titles), and he even shows up in the Ip Man films—but now we’re getting an official story complete with
backing from his family.
At this point in the game is there really anything to say
about “Enter the Dragon” that hasn’t already been said? It’s the greatest martial arts movie of all time—we can argue all we want, and there are great examples
of the genre that I also love dearly, but there’s no getting around how awesome
and culturally relevant the film is. It also just turned 40-years-old. I feel
like we should make if a cake with black frosting and a tombstone on it, just
for laughs, but it might kick our collective asses. Instead, why don’t we
celebrate with a stacked new 40th Anniversary Blu-ray release?
