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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

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Kind of a sci-fi version of "The Magnificent Seven". A band of miscreant mercenaries are procured to...

The Night Caller (1965)

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British sci-fi B-movie based on a pulp novel. Gimp-masked alien from Ganymede arrives on Earth via...

Enter the Dragon (1973)

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Landmark kung fu action movie; the final movie Bruce Lee completed in his lifetime (he died a month...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Enter the Dragon (1973) in Movies

May 6, 2020

Irresistible slice of 70s schlock. Bruce Lee goes off to the island of the drug dealing white slaver who's a renegade from his temple and whose men killed his sister (he's certainly not short of motivation) to take part in a martial arts tournament and bring the bad guy to justice. The plot is as rudimentary as that: there's a good guy, a bad guy, and a hell of a lot of fighting.

You do sense the American producers didn't quite understand what they were dealing with in Lee, for it's obvious he had a range and charisma far beyond what's required here. He's also partnered with John Saxon, who's an able leading man but really supernumerary (Saxon may have been a black belt in real life but his fight scenes have a whiff of dressage about them). Sleazy to the point of tackiness in places, and not much more than a live-action comic book, but tremendous action and some iconic sequences (the fight in the mirror-maze, for instance). Terrific entertainment if you're in the right mood.