Legacy of Rage

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Brandon Lee in a Hong Kong action movie.......2006-08-02

Now while The Crow has been the only worthwhile Brandon Lee movie I have watched, this is certainly # 2. It doesn't really stand out with anything special and is just your average crime drama. But with Ronny Yu at the helm and Bruce Lee's son as the star, he was going to try to make the best action movie ever. It is a decent story and well told, but like I said, nothing really happens. So you may like this if you like seeing a lot of cars blown up and quick one punch and it's over with fights. If you wanna see Brandon Lee playing one of his best roles, this is a must see.

Sound quality and widescreen(16:9) picture is pretty good. No special features though.

for HK style action fans and Brandon Lee fans only.......2006-01-02

too depressing. It got me depressed watching Brandon in prison for most of the movie. You have to watch him scrub tiolets and it made me feel sad for Brandon. The gunplay in the movie is so ridiculous that it becomes unbelievable. In some scenes there's five or more guys with machine guns shooting at Brandon and his friend and they can't hit him or his friend from twenty feet away. This is in contrast to his later movies such as 'Rapid Fire' which isn't so insanely done. Only a gun fanatical teenager might enjoy this. For Brandon Lee fans this is well worth having in your action collection, though. Because the movie was made in Asia, the action is way more violent than what I've seen in US films. Although it's very nice to see Brandon bust loose physically when he does. It's just does he have to be in prison for so long? It was a little too sad.
*spoiler alert* don't read below if you haven't seen the movie
another thing that was sad was how he is separated from his girlfrined for 8 long years, she gets beaten when he's in prison, he gets out and then gets a job as a garbage man, and then his girlfriend is dead and his reaction is not even to go over to the body but just jump in an expensive speedboat and take off. The movie was very cold and mean.

Something special :-).......2005-11-08

Legacy Of Rage is a wonderful action thriller with great storytelling and character development, emotionally captivating actors and actresses, a cool sountrack, and explosive gun battles and few but very brutal non-stylistic, white-knuckle fight sequences choregraphed and starring Mang Hoi, and featuring the late-great Brandon Lee who showed such wonderful potential for HK (and perhaps US) action hero stardom.

So buy it already!

Great HK underground movie.......2005-07-21

Legacy of Rage is a good HK action movie with some noteable action scenes and a good score. The movie is clearly dominated by two men. The well-known director Ronny Yu (Yu Yan Tai) who did a great job with Legacy of Rage, some of the scenes are really visually impressive, and the starring actor Brandon Lee (Li Guo Hao) with his great onscreen presence (at the age of 21). Also, Lee managed to not just be an "action robot" in this movie but to also to convey the emotions and the love story of his character (involving gorgeus Regina Kent) in a credible, gripping way.

Just a few words about the action scenes in this movie. Don't expect a martial arts movie because of the main actor's last name. The action scenes consist mainly of shooting, although there are some hand to hand combat scenes. Brandon Lee did all the fighting in the movie himself but of course his fighting skills are nowhere near his father's. Yet, the fighting in Legacy of Rage is decent. Brandon gets to beat up superstar Bolo Yeung (Enter the Dragon, Bloodsport).

Yu and Lee make Legacy of Rage one of HK's best low budget movies of the 80's. If you like such films or one of those two men, you should buy Legacy of Rage. It shouldn't be too expensive.

PS: I suggest a Cantonese version with English subtitles

Brandon Lee,RIP.......2005-05-25

I just happened to stumble across this flick the other day at the local Media Play and speaking as a hardcore Bruce Lee fan and of Brandon's performance in The Crow...I was blown away by Brandon's only Hong Kong movie. The action was there(Brandon stayed true to the Jeet Kune Do method that his dad polished) and while I didn't feel that he was attempting to imitate or emulate his dad...his intensity, mannerisms and even his expressions tend to resemble and honor his dad at times. I strongly recommend LOR for fans of Bruce and Brandon Lee, not just because it's a rare treat(or for the Cantonese soundtrack w/t English subtitles...cool), but because it represents the continuity of the Bruce Lee legacy and gives us more of a glimpse at what may've been(carrying Bruce Lee's torch and coming from under his shadow) had he lived to carry on his father's martial arts/film legacy. A truw, underground martial arts classic by the son of the greatest of all time. Brandon Lee...Rest In Peace,man.

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ASIN: B0007CILQG
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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LITTLE MERIT IN ROUTINE PRODUCTION........2005-05-05

Popular "country music" performer Barbara Mandrell makes an inauspicious feature film debut, in this work made for television, as Kate Bishop, a federal agency geologist assigned to assist residents of an imaginary town: Vashti, Tennessee (actually filming is at Lake City in eastern Tennessee's Appalachian region) in relocating from their homes endangered by the potential of gas explosions due to underground fires within coal mines beneath the town and, while performing her duties, she discovers a possible conspiracy organized by a local businessman, using the blazes for his own profit and thereby altering the focus of Kate's Function. Her perspective shifts as well by an immediate romantic involvement with the local fish and game warden, played blandly by Tom Wopat, and as the television pedigree of the piece becomes increasingly evident, so does choppy editing and general technical mediocrity, with a script lacking in logic, continuity flaws abounding, and pedestrian playing, notably by the pleasant but wooden Mandrell, although there is role commitment from always reliable Carol Kane who gathers in acting honours in what is ultimately a trite and forgettable affair. The DVD is identical to the VHS version with no added features.

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Brandon Lee in a Hong Kong action movie
for HK style action fans and Brandon Lee fans only
Something special :-)
Great HK underground movie
Brandon Lee,RIP

Legacy of Rage
Starring: Brandon Lee , Bolo Yeung , Tanya George , Regina Kent , and Fui-On Shing
Director: Ronny Yu
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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ASIN: 6305261423
Release Date: 2000-11-14

Customer Reviews:

Brandon Lee in a Hong Kong action movie.......2006-08-02

for HK style action fans and Brandon Lee fans only.......2006-01-02

Something special :-).......2005-11-08

Great HK underground movie.......2005-07-21

Brandon Lee,RIP.......2005-05-25

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