I AM BRUCE LEE-2011-This documentary produced by Spike TV is pretty good but would have been better without the likes of UFC president Dana White (UFC was airing on Spike at the time) who declares Lee created mixed martial arts and celebrities like Mickey Rourke (listed as actor/boxer) and Ed O'Neill (listed as actor/martial artist) telling us why Lee was so great.
UFC fighter Stephan Bonnar tells how he kicked his brothers' asses and other fighters like Jon Jones and Chung Le pontificate too. Even former boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini (billed as World Boxing Champion) has his say. Kobe Bryant and some dancers reflect on Lee having been the Hong Kong Cha-Cha champion of 1957 and he's compared to Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X! Of course Dan Inosanto, Lee's widow Linda and his daughter Shannon help keep things on track with their insights into his life, his philosophy and the development of his own martial arts style Jeet Kune Do. His stint as Kato of course is talked about and it was nice to see actor/stuntman Judo Gene LeBell be interviewed. But why no interviews with other people who worked with him like Chuck Norris and John Saxon?
This is biography features a lot of the very interesting black and white interview he did with in 1971 but there's too many celebrities talking trash and too much UFC promoting.
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