Birth of the Dragon 2017 123movies

Watch: Birth of the Dragon 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1964, a young Bruce Lee owns and operates a San Francisco Kung Fu Academy, specializing in the Chinese martial art Wing Chun. Lee cares for his students, providing advice, roles as extras in his upcoming projects, and defending them from the gangs of Chinatown. One of Lee’s students, Steve McKee, spars with Lee while fighting in anger, causing Lee to counter and embarrass him. McKee and Vinnie Wei work for the latter’s mother’s laundry business, where they find out that master Wong Jack Man is on a pilgrimage from China to observe the Kung Fu scene in the United States. While carrying out a delivery to the China Gate restaurant, McKee falls for an employee, Xiulan, who is forbidden to communicate with anyone on the outside. One night, McKee sneaks over to the restaurant to give her a grammar book, teaching her fellow roommates basic English…
Plot: Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 8,373
	23% | RottenTomatoes
	35/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 256 Popularity: 16.867 | TMDB

Reviews:

I love surprises
I it nice to watch a movie that you are curious about, without any expectations, and then be very pleasantly surprised. I have to thank all the haters out there for making this experience even better than it would have been. Without elaborating to much, this is a really nice, fun movie with a good solid cast and some great moments on the screen. By writing this review I wanted to restore a little balance into the mix, considering the bad reviews this movie has been getting. By just looking at this low rating I can tell a lot of people have missed the point of this movie, at least what I think the point was. By elaborating a little bit more, what happened here was a case of taking a past unrecorded event and making a movie around it by making assumptions and filling in the blanks and thus creating something new. All I can say is that the crew make this process work pretty good. This movie doesn’t give you a very accurate history lesson but it has a purpose non the less. A part of that purpose was to give us a little bit of a different version of Bruce Lee and his story. This movie didn’t idealize him which in my opinion was a great move because it made Bruce Lee seem like a more relatable person, flawed and a little immature at the time. This movies statement was that he was a genius, talented, charismatic, but also probably a little cocky, arrogant and immature in his beginnings as a teacher. I’m not making assumptions on the authenticity of his character but I like that this wasn’t a typical hero that wins the day story. Just at the very end it turns it around to give us the moral of the story which is in my opinion the best part of the movie. When you think you know everything, life tells you otherwise. In summation I would definitely recommend this movie because it has a lot going for it. If nothing else, there is some nice philosophy, plus some good martial art fights. Most importantly, Bruce Lee remains a very cool guy thanks to a great cast. A nice surprise.

Misses the Mark
It’s been 23 years since the last major Hollywood biopic on Bruce Lee. While we’re a full generation forward, the 20-odd year interval wasn’t sufficient to outlast the durable media biases that afflict how minorities, in this case, Asian-Americans, are depicted.

Birth of the Dragon will pull in fans off the street by claiming to tell the story of Bruce Lee, an iconic figure in American history. However, they may be surprised to find that the movie actually has very little to say about Lee. About his love life. About who he is as a human being. In fact, he is dealt with in such a stylized, mysterious manner — and not as a full human being — it’s unclear the movie gives the viewer anything more than he already knew. Instead, Lee’s primary purpose is to serve the white protagonist Steve McKnee in various ways.

First, the film gives short shrift to the actual epic fight between Lee and his rival. We do not even know how that fight impacted Lee’s life afterwards, what he learned from it, or how it changed his fighting style. But we do know Lee went through all that trouble, and the animating force behind it was that Lee’s rival was against Caucasians like McKnee being trained to fight. What’s happening here is that – this really isn’t about Lee. It’s more about some character we’ve never heard of but somehow has the country’s greatest martial arts fighter fighting on his behalf.

It doesn’t end there. Lee, a role model for Americans, including Asian-Americans, is seen as flat. He is shown as without a romantic interest. In contrast, McKnee has an Asian Girlfriend…and lo and behold he needs Lee to fight for him again to get the girlfriend back after she’s abducted by “bad Asians”. And Lee does.

I think we came to watch Bruce Lee. Not Bruce Lee aid some random fictional nobody on his mission to belong, and then his mission to get back said nobody’s girlfriend.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 6901965
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
Director George Nolfi
Writer Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Michael Dorgan
Actors Billy Magnussen, Yu Xia, Philip Ng
Country China, Canada, United States
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

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Laboratory Company 3 (digital intermediate)
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