One of the best Jet Li Lian Jie movies, Fist of Legend is loosely based on the 1972 Bruce Lee classic Fists of Fury.

Li stars as Chen Zhen, a student of Ching Woo school who is off studying in Japan. When his old teacher and mentor is defeated and killed fighting the Japanese Master Funakoshi near his old school in Shanghai where he grew up, he returns to Ching Woo to investigate, and after discovering what really happened, he vows to take his revenge for his master.

Put simply, the action throughout the movie is quite simply superb, with well staged and well filmed fight sequences dotting the movie. One of the duals between Li and his girlfriends uncle is a master piece.

As with all the movies physical work, Li displays why he was China’s national champion in Wu-shu. His grace as he performs his techniques is brilliant. This movie comes highly recommended to anyone looking for great fight scenes as they plentiful and are all magnificent.

One particularly memorable piece of action is when Li uses his belt like a Kung-Fu steel whip chain to defeat a foe. Staves and swords are also used in a few of the big fights with great skill.

To top it off, Chen Zhen’s girlfriend is beautiful, the overall quality of the film is top notch, the sets are all very well done and even the dubbing on the English track is quite well done as well, even if some of the voices sound a bit strange.

Overall, I give Fist of legend 9 / 10