An Overrated Hollywood Martial Arts Flick This is perhaps the most overrated of all martial arts films. It is so "Hollywood" it comes out as nothing more than "Charlie Chan" meets "James Bond", except Chan acknowledged and played on his humor and James Bond (with Sean Connery) had class and suavity. Bruce Lee showed to us he can't act, and neither can his co-stars: Saxon,Kelly,etc. The bad acting in this movie is really hard to watch. They hired B-grade actors to give this Hong Kong film a Hollywood feel and look,and succeeded with a grade C movie. Aside from the skillful fighting (which is so stylized and contrived anyways),the plot is silly and the situations are implausible. The level of violence in the movie is excessive--perhaps this accounts, sadly, for the film's enduring popularity. In most of his films, Lee always comes off looking like a kung-fu fighter with a severe psychopath problem. Was that always his intention, to look like a nut?? He actually makes Norman Bates look normal! 'Overkill with delight' is customary. Certainly, it is a film that should not be seen by children, despite the unbelievable 'PG' rating on some DVD versions. As a parent, I would not even allow a 15 year-old kid to watch this movie. No I am not a prude, but I dislike the glorification of violence and sex. And when you combine that with implausibility, third-rate acting, and a silly plot,the result is a movie that ranks,at most, at the top of the heap with all those other cheap martial arts films of the 70s. When people say that this movie broke new ground,the reality is that it broke new ground only because it was a tad better than other sensational chop-socketty movies. For me,"The Chinese Connection" was the best Lee film, not this one.