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  Review by Jordan James Brooks ★★★

  It’s the same kind of format as the previous Golden Harvest documentary, but it’s less depressing having been made over a decade after Lee’s death instead of just a few weeks after. 

  Some interesting footage is included and it’s quite insightful overall.

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  Review by Michael501 📺 ★★½

  1984 In Review - April
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  The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.

  Bruce Lee - The Legend is a pretty dry tribute film made by Golden Harvest. It mostly covers the films Bruce made for Golden Harvest and leaves out many interesting stuff outside these films that made Bruce Lee an international superstar. The most interesting part of the documentary for me. was probably that it concentrated a good enough time on Bruce's earlier Hong Kong films that he made before leaving to United States. Several films as a child actor. 
  There are much more insightful documentaries about Bruce Lee out there, but this one is still worth to see as it features a couple of interesting interviews with Bruce Lee's Hong Kong co-stars. The film is well put together, and when this is your first film about Bruce Lee, then you probably learn quite many things about the man.

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  Review by Stu ★★★★

  Watched On DVD

  The 2nd documentary in The Master Collection is a lot better than The last one, as it shows a lot more of his films instead of being fixated on his funeral.

  The narrator is a lot better and the interviews and film details are interesting.

  It also shows a lot of outtakes from Game Of Death and what formula is films took in the way of how he acted.

  It needs to be seen. Here is where I will stop my bombardment and continue it tomorrow - I just don't want to bore everyone to death

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  Review by kimchideluxe ★★★

  Just an documentary about Bruce Lee. Very old school and monotone. I had this on my watchlist just for background noise but I saw parts of it while cooking and stuff.

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  Review by Mads Ej ★★★½

  Yesterday I watched the documentary “Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend”, which was a bit of a mess that they hastily put together shortly after Bruce Lee’s death.
  This however, was a much better documentary that told us a more complete story of his life and went more into detail with stuff, though some parts still felt a little rushed and others a little long. It was also put together well and the chapters gave it more structure, while I also liked that it was told chronologically. I think the narrator here was much better too.
  We see a lot of footage from his smaller early acting roles, where it was especially exciting to see scenes he made as…

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  Review by Gentry ★★★

  “Bruce didn’t drink. So the parts he played didn’t know how to drink either.”

  Draws a throughline between wuxia fables and the Bruce Lee legend. Very amusing to see snippets from the early Bruce Lee child films, honing his street thuggery. Loved the interview with Nora (and her perm). I hadn’t seen those character tests Bruce was playing around with before, would have loved to see him attempt that Zatoichi type blind swordsman. And then it gets slightly exploitative with the Betty Ting stuff. And ends like an advertisement for Clouse’s Game of Death.

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  Review by 47Ronin100

  Still kinda hagiographic and GH's way of sayin' look forward to our movie Game of Death but slightly better than their last doc so credit where credit's due.

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  Review by David Sodergren ★★★

  Better than Bruce Lee: The Man, The Legend, but still over-reliant on very long clips from his films. 

  The highlight is the amazing screen test for Number One Son, which shows just how frighteningly fast and controlled Bruce was. My heart goes out to that poor old man he’s demonstrating the moves on! 

  There’s also some tantalisingly brief behind-the-scenes footage from The Prodigal Son, which leads me to believe that somewhere in the Golden Harvest vault there are hours of unseen footage from Sammo’s kung-fu masterpiece.

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  Review by Arrow Video + ARROW 1

  A decade later, Golden Harvest released Bruce Lee: The Legend, which presents an entertaining and reverent focus on Lee’s enduring legacy and star power with the aid of even more unseen footage and specially-filmed interviews with Lee’s closest collaborators, including producer Raymond Chow, co-star Nora Miao and others.

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★½

  The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
  -Bruce Lee

  A double edged sword of a documentary. It will only interest people who are already fans of Bruce Lee, but by the end of the film it will also make them uneasy in what they just watched as the true nature of why this film was made will become clearly evident. Promoted as the Official Golden Harvest Tribute to Bruce Lee, it ends up being more of a 1977 promotional stunt for a certain upcoming movie.

  What will interest long time fans will be the extended clips of Lee's earlier films from child actor to teenager that a lot of fans, including myself, haven't seen before. Unfortunately…

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  Review by Maxvayne ★★★½

  A good documentary that likely turned many into Bruce Lee fans during the 1980s while continuing to push the myth and his legend to a new generation. It's no wonder there were a number of Bruce Lee posters found on the walls of kid's bedrooms in 80s cinema. His presence (and coolness) never truly left us.

  Displays a good amount of scenes from his films (including his child films) and features a sizable portion of behind the scenes footage likely being publicly shown for the first time (the juicy Game of Death sections absolutely were) ever. So in that context I cannot take away from this doc and myself first seeing this stuff elsewhere in the 90s & 2000s. We're also…

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  Review by KaijuWorldOrder ★★★

  More informative and slightly less ghoulish than the other one