- Year
- 1973
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Director
- Robert Clouse
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (3/100)
- Also known as
- The Deadly Three
Enter the Dragon
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
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