Frank Markland Brandon Lee stars as Brandon Ma, a waiter who is set up for man slaughter by his "best friend" Michael (Michael Wong) while on the inside, Michael tries to rape Brandon's girlfriend and it comes to surface that Michael set Brandon up. After getting out of prison Brandon tries to live a normal life but Michael kidnaps Brandon's girlfriend and son (Conceived before Brandon's prison stay.) Brandon is given no choice but to settle the score. Legacy Of Rage has its share of plausibility issues (Why the hell does Brandon Lee call up Michael Wong to let him know he's coming for him?) but it is a decent film. I liked The Crow the best but this is his second best movie to date. (Though considering the fact that Showdown In Little Tokyo is third place, this says very little.) The main flaw is that the movie takes too long to set up its premise. There is just too many sequences of Brandon Lee going fishing, too many scenes of Brandon Lee running after a bus, too many escape attempts from prison and that is what hurts the movie. That being said the shootouts (In particular the finale) are well staged and very exciting. Interestingly though Brandon Lee's martial arts ability aren't very well used, indeed the fight between Brandon Lee and Bolo Yeung is over like 5 seconds! The movie gets most of its mileage out of the heroic bloodshed angle, mainly in the relationship between Brandon Lee and Wai-Man Chan (Four Eyes) which provides the movie with its heroic bloodshed moments. Also the final shootout alone makes this rise above mediocrity. So while Legacy Of Rage isn't in the league of Hard Boiled, it is at least a perfectly decent movie.* *1/2 out of 4-(Pretty Good)

callanvass This was a great debut for Brandon Lee, it's action packed, with a very cool story and awesome performances. all the characters were great, and it had quite a few shocking moments, plus Michael Wong is extremely menacing as the main villain. The violence in this film is not pretty, and, the ending really pours it on, plus Brandon lee had good chemistry with all of the cast. It's exciting throughout, and the finale is full of gunfire, plus Brandon lee's dubbing was surprisingly not that bad at all!. They really don't make em like this no more, and the film is very stylish, plus the film pulls no punches. Yes it's a little predictable, however i still enjoyed it very much and Brandon Lee's presence clearly helped a lot, plus the prison scenes were really cool!. There isn't a lot of martial arts action however it's quite exciting, plus the ending was great. This was a great debut for Brandon Lee, it's action packed with a very cool story, and awesome performances, i highly recommend this one!. The Direction is very good. Ronny Yu does a very good job here, with great camera work, awesome angles keeping it stylish, and he kept the film at a very fast pace. There is TONS of blood and violence. We get a stabbing, lots of harsh bloody beatings,Hundreds of extremely bloody gunshot wounds,people spurt out blood all over the place throughout,eye bashed out,gory impaling and tons of blood!. The Acting is excellent!. Brandon lee is AMAZING as he always was, and was amazing here, he is extremely likable, witty, kicked that ass had good chemistry with the cast, and was just tons of fun to watch!, his dubbing wasn't too bad either(Brandon Ruled!). Bolo Yeung is good in his very short role, however his dubbing was terrible, and i didn't see enough of him sadly. (Bolo Rules). Regina Kent is good in her role, she was cute and had good chemistry with Brandon. Michael Wong is excellent as the main villain, he was extremely menacing and unpredictable. Rest of the cast are fine. Overall i highly recommend this one!. ***1/2 out of 5

BigGuy I thought, how could a movie with Brandon Lee and Bolo Yeung possibly be boring. I expected very little plot substance, but at least one or two good fight scenes. Even the climatic fight scene was ho-hum.When Brandon Lee fights a bad guy in this movie, it is punch one or two punches and it is over. His fight against Bolo was just like that. Bolo goes for a punch Brandon punches twice and it is over, next bad guy please.The acting is weak at best. Probably not helped by horrendous dubbing. But even the facial expressions weren't that great (perhaps on par with other really bad Hong Kong Action movies) with anger looking more like shocked constipation.Definitely not worth the time.

Keltic-2 Despite the novelty of hearing Brandon Lee speak Cantonese (dubbed, apparently), this is a standard action flick. There are a few good scenes, but on the whole rather average and lacklustre. In particular, the editing of many action scenes becomes confusing, so that you're never quite sure what happened to who. Not excruciatingly bad, not breathtakingly great... just blah.