Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon is a 1973 film from the USA, directed by Robert Clouse, running 98 minutes. reelscum files it under martial arts.
- Year
- 1973 · 1970s films
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Director
- Robert Clouse
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (3/100)
- Also known as
- The Deadly Three
Defined in the glossary: Martial arts
Lee died six days before release. The mirror room still works.
The film that made Bruce Lee a global star, released six days after he died at 32. A tournament on a private island doubles as an undercover mission, which is really just a frame to hang the fights on, and the fights are the reason the film is immortal.
The mirror-room finale has been copied so many times it can be hard to see how strange and good it is. Lee is doing something nobody on film had done before, and the camera mostly just gets out of his way.
The plot is standard spy-movie filler. Lee is not.
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- Blaxploitation, 1971 to 1975
Melvin Van Peebles caught gonorrhea on his own set, filed a workers' comp claim, and bought more film stock with the settlement. Four years later the studios had mined the audience out and moved on.
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