Fist of Legend | Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama | The Greatest Martial Arts Film of All Time

Fist of Legend | Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama | My favorite martial arts film

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Fist of Legend

	Fist of Legend Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama Dimension Films, 2000 average customer review:based on 298 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Greatest Martial Arts Film of All Time

Fist of Legend is, without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest martial arts film ever made.

The fight scenes in this film are simply beautiful. They are brilliantly choreographed and clearly only Jet Li is good enough to have these scenes. Every fight scene is amazing and there is a unique story to each fight scene. There are no cheesy wires and no flying around. This is on the ground, full contact, kick-ass, bone-crunching action. This film is so good and so influential that The Matrix attempted to completely rip off every fight scene in the movie.

So once again, this is the greatest Martial Arts film of all time. It stars Jet Li, the greatest on-screen action star in the world. If you enjoy Martial Arts film, you MUST have this movie in your collection. If you don't own it, you are not a true fan of Martial Arts movies.

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My favorite martial arts film

This is definitely one of the best martial arts films I have seen. It has a solid story, with characters who, for the most part, are well rounded.

This film has an excellent variety of fights, as well. They mix up one on one fights with Jet Li taking down groups of samurai. Li also uses multiple fighting styles, so the fights don't always look the same.

Even if it doesn't become your favorite, I think you will find it worth adding to your collection.

I only wish there was a subtitled version available.

One of Jet Li's finest films

Simply put, this movie if one of the best films in its genre. The story is typical, yet engaging, and the fight scenes are phenominal.

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Fist of Legend Lands its Blow!

This movie, Fist of Legend, is still one of my favorite movies staring the honorable Jet Li as Chen Zen. It presents the tensions of Japanese/Chinese culture in the early twentieth century well and tries to stymie prejudice on either side by Chen Zen's unaccepted romance with a Japanese woman Mitsuku. Chen Zen fights with honor as well as his Japanese adversary Akutagawa and the Mitsuku's uncle the esteemed Japanese master. My favorite scene is when Chen and the Japanese master fight blindfolded and later talk of philosophically adapting to another's fighting...This is a true martial arts movie! This is the movie that inspired me to train more in the martial arts. Check this one out...You will not be disappointed!

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A worthy remake of the Chinese Connection

Jet Li has quite a film career, but I think this one stands above most of his others. It is loosely derived from Bruce Lee's legendary Chinese Connection. The film is set in Shanghai in the 1930's when the Chinese where still suffering under Japanese occupation. Li's character is a likable, good natured martial arts student who is nonetheless endowed with amazing fighting abilities, using a unique hybrid of chinese and japanese fighting arts. He returns to Shanghai after his Sifu is supposedly killed in a duel with a rival Sensei from a local karate school, only to discover it was foul play and poison. Extradited from his community because of his Japanese lover, Li seeks refuge in the countryside and prepares to take revenge on those who murdered his master.

As a Japanese American, I am fully aware of the brutal atrocities and oppression the Japanese used while subjugating their asian neighors. Yet often I find in these films are too quick to write off all Japanese as vicious and cowardly villains. This was my problem with Chinese Connection, as there where no good or sympathetic Japanese characters. This film instead portrays that there where, in fact, several Japanese who felt that the Samurai spirit and the Bushido code of honor had been abused, twisted and betrayed by the horrendous atrocities of the Imperial Japanese Expansion. In one scene, the Karate Sensei who fought Li's poisoned master condemns the man responsible, calling him unworthy to be a samurai. The man swiftly kills the sensei and proudly proclaims "Being a samurai has nothing to do with honor, it is about dominating your enemies." This was the mentality that had hijacked the Japanese code and thus led to their inevitable defeat in WW2.

Li's girlfriend's uncle is a powerful samurai warrior and karate expert who is Li's noble adversary. Their duel is nothing short of breathtaking, with both fighters donning blindfolds to accomodate each other. Along with Li's Once Upon a Time in China, this is probably the best of his work.

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