“Birth Of The Dragon” (** out of four) was a hazy biographical story set in 1960’s San Francisco in which a young Bruce Lee (Phillip Ng) was spurred on by one of his students to challenge Shaolin monk and tai-chi master Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu) to a fight which began the seeds of his status as a martial-arts legend. Interesting story for hard-core fans of Bruce Lee but there are too many murky secondary characters and subplots, and final showdown between Lee and Man isn’t all that exciting. Watch 1993’s “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” for a more passionate and intense story of Lee’s life and fights.

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