Birth of the dragon7/5/2023 It’s an annoying bait-and-switch, since you enter the cinema to watch a martial arts film but end up sitting through many long scenes of a lousy white martial arts student attempting to save his Asian girlfriend, who teaches English and is otherwise forgettable. The film is ostensibly about Bruce Lee (Philip Ng)’s controversial and private fight with Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu), but it’s really about the love life of Bruce Lee’s (fictional) student, Steve McKee (Billy Magnussen). It’s more like “The Dragon and Friends” rather than showcasing a “birth” element. You’d expect a film with such a title and subject to showcase the origins of Bruce Lee, but what this martial arts film does is something completely different. The whole problem with “Birth of the Dragon” is that the dragon, Bruce Lee, is already an established martial artist in the film.
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