Bruce Lee is the star and that's why we watch. Bare bones plot. No apologies. All action. All fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2023

And yet when the fisticuffs eventually arrive — on a James Bond-style island where an evil crime lord is hosting an international kung fu-themed tournament of death — they’re impossibly satisfying.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2023

[Lee's] balletic moves are a joy and the traditional nunchuck showoff display is mesmeric – it’s why we can forgive this film for the slightly lower-octane scenes when he’s not in them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2023

Enter the Dragon set the standard for Martial Arts movies that has been imitated time and time again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2023

... a glorified B-movie mix of kung-fu fighting (choreographed by Lee himself) and James Bond intrigue elevated by the charismatic presence and graceful but deadly moves of the lean, wiry martial arts master.

| Jul 1, 2023

Lee is terrific and his natural charisma gives the film the energy it needs.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 15, 2023

Had this been a James Bond film, the agent would have carried out his mission via a myriad of sophisticated weaponry and curt sexual references. The hands and feet of the late Bruce Lee, however, prove more deadly than Bond's entire jet-age steel arsenal.

| Mar 20, 2023

A pulsating final vehicle that delivers regularly timed jolts to our lowest sensibilities. For my money, Enter the Dragon beats out the Bond films for getting out the adrenalin -- the theatrical equivalent of a good sauna.

| Mar 20, 2023

As martial arts films go, "Dragon" leads the pack so far.

| Mar 20, 2023

Really, there's no call to mention anyone, director, writer or actor, beyond Mr. Lee, who, it should be said, was no mean actor as well as acrobat... The genre dies with him. I suppose.

| Mar 20, 2023

If you take the entire affair nonchalantly, you will easily smile, laugh, and enjoy your way through Enter the Dragon.

| Mar 20, 2023

A good-natured example of the pleasures of schlock art. There's so much going on that the whole history of movies seems to be recapitulated in scrambled form.

| Mar 20, 2023

One of the most hateful films In years. Its story is a shameful copy of Dr. No. Its dialog approaches the infantile. Its characters are cruel parodies of human beings. Its subliminal message is morally bankrupt.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 20, 2023

It's not hokey. In this ballet of pain and mutilation, Lee is a matchless Nureyev. The others are just athletes -- he made karate a film art.

| Mar 20, 2023

Enter the Dragon, the latest kung fu migraine, is slick junk.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 20, 2023

Taking into account that the material is strictly comic book trash, Clouse wisely approaches it as if he were making a cartoon and even manages to bring to it a modicum of style.

| Mar 20, 2023

Cashing in on the current film craze for Hong Kong bone-crunchers, the Bros. Warner and director Robert Clouse, aided by Lee as fight director and an ear-splitting track of cracking and smashing, have produced an expert, spectacular copy.

| Mar 20, 2023

The plot matters little. What fans want is action. And Enter The Dragon is packed with it. Not only was Lee a Kung-Fu expert, he had that rare attribute star quality. With his millions of fans, I shall miss him.

| Mar 20, 2023

Rotten in all the ways you'd expect a Hollywood-backed, Hong Kong-based karate sonata to be; and old not only because its spirit is early, rudimentary James Bond, but also... [because] the whole exercise seems to belong to an already musty past

| Mar 20, 2023

Warner Bros. has done a commendable job with their first kung fu effort. They've kept the spirit of the Hong Kong-made original while giving the genre a slick sophistication.

| Mar 20, 2023