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The Way of the Dragon
1972
· Movie
· 90 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1970
- IMDb #2046
- Google retired #505
- Rotten Tomatoes #889
- Metacritic #2728
- Letterboxd #1799
+3 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1024
- Metacritic Audience #2778
- Criticker #1258
Every rating
55–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 58, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A simple country boy visits his relatives in Rome to help protect their struggling restaurant from a local syndicate of gangsters that is pressuring them to sell. His formidable martial arts skills prove more than a match for the thugs, leading their boss to hire the world's greatest martial artists to defeat him.
Details
- Director
- Bruce Lee
- Writers
- Bruce Lee, Joe Cheung Tung-Cho
- Released
- 30 December 1972
- Country
- Hong Kong, China, Italy
- Language
- Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Italian
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Budget
- $130.0K
- Box office
- $27.0M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win total
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