Long zai jiang hu

Plot synopsis:
Brandon Ma (Brandon Lee) is a regular guy with a job and a girlfriend May (Regina Kent). He has two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael Wan (Michael Wong), an ambitious and murderous drug dealer. Michael also loves May and so he comes up with a plan using a corrupt police officer named Sharky (Lam Chung) that will win her for himself and get Brandon out of his way. It seems that the corrupt cop has been using his police connections to dominate the local cocaine trade, so Michael has him killed and uses Brandon as the fall guy. Brandon goes to jail and meets Hoi (Mang Hoi), although he thinks that he will be released soon thanks to the efforts of his good buddy Michael. However, after 8 long years, Brandon finally gets out of jail and vows revenge on Michael for betraying their friendship and stealing the love of his life.
Whilst out of prison he learns that May has had his son. With the help of Hoi, Brandon tracks down Michael. Whilst engaging his guards he learns that May is dead. After killing Michael's guards, Brandon confronts and kills his former friend Michael. The movie ends with Brandon bidding farewell to his friend Hoi (who aided him in fighting Michael's guards) and leaving with his son.

Tags: revenge, cult, violence

Review:
Rage stars Brandon Lee is his only Hong Kong production and Michael Wong, the guy who played the sicko role in Fatal Love, starring beautiful Ellen Chan.
But considered what kind of achievements we have seen coming out from Hong Kong, this is very mediocre but still watchable and recommended, of course, to the fans of Lee family.
Lee junior is pretty normal here and is not as powerful as in his future roles, but we must remember that this is so early work for him, and he may have had some pressure thinking about his father and his reputation..After all a decent Oriental actioner with nothing particularly exciting or worth mentioning.
Before I saw this, I thought Rapid Fire was Brandon Lee's first movie, but I like him more in this one than Rapid Fire.
Michael Wong looks so young in this movie, and he's one good looking son of a gun.
Her career ended short like Brandon's.The movie is dubbed, and it's a so, so job.
One thing that's original about this movie is that each scene happens in a little bit different settings than you usually see, and each scene is beautiful.See it for the charisma of Brandon Lee, and unusual settings where thing happens.7.5/10.
Made by D & B Films (no need to thank me), "Long zai jiang hu" was the first movie I saw with Brandon Lee - unlike the other posters, I actually saw it when it came out - and it was ultimately nothing too special, but all of the action stars of the past and present have had to work their way up, and it was certainly better than "Rapid Fire" and "Showdown In Little Tokyo" (which was admittedly entertaining in a cheap way, Tia Carrere's obvious body double and the snuff video scene with that gorgeous blonde notwithstanding).The action's okay, and the scene where our hero bursts a villain's eye with a garotte still makes me wince 16 years later, but the best bit is when our hero visits a wimpy friend to get some armed help; wimpy friend says "I only have these," and unveils an armoury that would give Charlton Heston wet dreams.
Brandon Lee is mad as hell in this mid 80's action flick from Hong Kong.
Lee and his buddy (Michael Wong) are the best of friends, that's until a strange twist of fate changes their lives for ever.
Hoi Mang co-stars (as well as directing the fight scenes) along with Regina Kent (A Better Tomorrow II) and Ng Man Tat. The final act of this film is definitely one-of-a-kind and it is simply mind blowing!Highly recommended for H.K. Cinema fans!!
A Factoid: Michael Wong and Brandon Lee's voices are looped by other actors..
The 1986 martial arts action flick "Legacy of Rage" has the benefit of being the first starring role of the late Brandon Lee (the ill-fated son of deceased martial arts legend Bruce Lee).
It was also the only film that Brandon Lee made in Hong Kong, and likewise the film is spoken in Cantonese (though the voices are dubbed - as the practice at that time was to film movies without sound, and then dub in the actors' voices later).Brandon Lee is in fine form here (despite never hearing his natural speaking voice), though the film itself - written and directed by Hong Kong action veteran Ronny Yu (who would later gain fame in the West with the American horror films "Bride of Chucky" and "Freddy vs.
Jason," and the martial arts epic "Fearless" with Jet Li) - is somewhat of a mixed bag; it's more or less a standard action film, with lots of stuff about gangsters, drugs, and John Woo-style gun-play.
Also, disappointingly, there isn't much of Brandon Lee using his father's patented Jeet Kune Do skills against the bad guys being sent his way.Lee plays Brandon Ma, a hard-working average Joe with a beautiful girlfriend named May (Regina King, in her film debut) and dreams of buying a motorcycle.
Brandon's best friend is Michael (Michael Wong), who is also the son of a local Hong Kong gangster and is looking to take over his father's business and thus make a name for himself.
But when he learns the truth about what's happened to him and why, that's when he sets out to get revenge and save May.While we all know Brandon Lee's tragic story (he was killed while filming a scene of his last film, 1994's "The Crow"), "Legacy of Rage" definitely shows the talent the younger Lee inherited from his more-famous father.
Brandon Lee may not have been as skilled a martial artist as his father (this is really debatable and a pointless argument, if you ask me), but he certainly may have been a stronger and more charismatic and charming actor.
"Legacy of Rage" may not have much in the way of kung-fu action, but it does show that Lee was a strong and capable action hero, much like he would show in his later English-speaking features "Showdown in Little Tokyo" (1991), "Rapid Fire" (1992) and of course, "The Crow" - his last and most famous film.So "Legacy of Rage" is worth viewing maybe once or twice, as a worthy introduction to the skills of the extraordinarily talented Brandon Lee.6/10P.S.: Bolo Yeung (who appeared as a villain in Bruce Lee's last completed film "Enter the Dragon") also has a brief appearance here, as well..
I'm not understanding the fellow reviews of other posters here, seems like the general negative consensus is that Brandon Lee didn't do enough martial arts or with the finesse of his father.
Well this isn't a martial arts film, so if you were expecting the successor to Bruce Lee you'll be disappointed.
This is an overly melodramatic action film from Hong Kong, falls into the genre also known as "Heroic Bloodshed", and in that respect the movie's hokey but simultaneously keeps strong pacing and high entertainment value.
Brandon Lee was offered the lead in this rather routine actioner and was apparently reluctant to accept, not knowing how well he would be received as a successor to his now-legendary father.
Brandon showed himself to be a good actor, as did co-star Michael Fitzgerald Wong in an early role as a smooth baddie, and Brandon also showed off some impressive martial arts chops.
This one, like Rapid Fire, shows off Brandon as an 80s action hero who could fight, do stunts and act too.
Brandon Lee made so few movies by the time of his death that every one is a curiosity, although The Crow is the only one that is actually really good.
You would think the producers would take advantage of having English speaking actors around to dub their own English dialogue, but it is instructive of the high-speed factory approach to film making common in Hong Kong at the time that this was not done.
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.
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.
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.
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).
For a first movie with a leading role, then "Legacy of Rage" was a very generic and not particularly memorable movie for Brandon Lee. I was, however, surprised that Brandon Lee actually seriously started his career in Hong Kong cinema.I was unfortunately watching an English dubbed DVD without the option to switch to the original Cantonese audio track.
Granted that it was dubbed, it wasn't the worst of dubbing jobs in Asian movies, but still...The story was adequate, but it was just a bit too forced and scripted, and Brandon Lee weren't given that many opportunities to showcase his skills, neither acting nor martial arts.Aside from Brandon Lee then "Legacy of Rage" also starred Michael Wong, in what might actually be one of this more impressive and memorable roles.
I didn't know that Michael Wong had acted opposite Brandon Lee, so that was a nice treat.
The movie also has a small appearance by Bolo Yeung (yep, the memorable bad guy from "Blood Sport").While fun to watch Brandon Lee's first movie in a leading role, then "Legacy of Rage" wasn't particularly memorable.
This movie might appeal to die-hard fans of Brandon Lee, but it doesn't offer much for the fans of Hong Kong cinema..
"Legacy of Rage" proves that Brandon Lee had enough talent to become an action star in his own right, without counting only on his famous father's name.
The film itself is rather slow and unexceptional story-wise (half prison flick, half revenge flick), distinguished from similar American fare mostly by a few superb hand-to-hand fight scenes and the amount of blood in the climax.
Legacy of Rage is a great action/drama film.
when Brandon gets out of jail, he has only one thing on his mind...REVENGE.The film has much more acting in it then expected but it is a joyful treat.
Legacy of Rage also has some good gunplay scenes and the over the top violence is fun to watch.
For me I was rather in-between about liking and disliking it.To begin with it was nice seeing this as one of the very few not to mention early Brandon Lee films.
For me The Crow is still one film that stands out a brilliant achievement, it's not surprising to learn that there would've been so many promising role for him in the pipeline.My only disapointment with Legacy of Rage was the fact that not much martial arts was demonstrated despite the showdown with "Enter the Dragon" co-star and Bruce Lee student Bolo Yeung.
But to top it off the dubbing was real annoyance as it's becoming both lame and outdated with most of these actor's not being able to speak their native languages, what a crock of s**t.Overall not a bad film at all, but it's high time that voice dubbing becomes a thing of the past?.
This is one of Brandon Lee's first movies and I have to say it is rather good for a Hong Kong action movie made in 1986.
I thought, how could a movie with Brandon Lee and Bolo Yeung possibly be boring.
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.
Bolo goes for a punch Brandon punches twice and it is over, next bad guy please.The acting is weak at best.
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..
This is your typical actioner from Hong Kong with hardly any plot and lots of guns and martial arts action.
This was Brandon Lee's first movie so that's of special note and also has Bolo who was in Enter the Dragon with Bruce.
Brandon had yet to polish his martial arts skills like he displayed in Rapid Fire so the fight scenes kind of look robotic.
If you're a Brandon Lee fan then I recommend watching at least once.
Despite the novelty of hearing Brandon Lee speak Cantonese (dubbed, apparently), this is a standard action flick.
"Legacy of Rage" is an entertaining and interesting hybrid action/drama/prison movie.
"Legacy of Rage" is an entertaining and interesting hybrid action/drama/prison movie and a personal favorite genre, revenge movie.Brandon Lee plays Brandon Ma, a mild-mannered (that is, unless you push him too far) waiter with a loving and devoted girlfriend, May (Regina Kent).
When Brandon's "friend" Michael, who is a gangster rising in the ranks, frames Brandon for manslaughter and sends him to jail for eight years, he thinks he can get in good with May (by attempting to rape her while she's pregnant, a great plan).
Even after Brandon gets out of a hard stretch in prison, Michael still makes Brandon's life a living hell.Finally, enough is enough, and after a whole movie of a nice guy being stepped on over and over again, Brandon reconnects with Hoi and his huge stash of weaponry, and they go together on a violence-packed, kick-ass revenge mission against Michael's gang.
Interestingly, the movie, at least in the English-speaking world, is called LEGACY of rage, obviously trying to link Brandon with his legendary father Bruce, as if that was really needed.
It has a good story, is well-filmed, has great action, brutal violence, a satisfying ending, and is all handled well, with energy, style and flair by director Ronny Yu.According to author Thomas Weisser from his great book Asian Cult Cinema Boulevard, 1997)"This is the only made-in-Hong Kong movie with Brandon Lee. Reportedly,Brandon was reluctant to make HK movies because he was afraid of critical comparison between himself and his superhero father Bruce Lee" (pg.117).
I wish he did more Hong Kong action movies.I love movies where the good guy is really good (he even helps a little girl in need after her mommy gets on a bus without her!), the bad guys are really bad, and the good guy doesn't want to fight, but he has to because he's taken too much crap for too long.
Fan-favorite Bolo Yeung appears very briefly (one short scene)in the beginning of the film as a gangster looking for protection money from the restaurant where Brandon works.It was nice to see him, and if I have one complaint about the movie, it's that it could have used more Bolo.But on the whole, I would heartily recommend "Legacy of Rage"..
Great Debut For Brandon Lee!, It's Action Packed, With A Very Cool Story And Excellent Performances!.
This was a great debut for Brandon Lee, it's action packed, with a very cool story and awesome performances.
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!.
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!.
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.
It pains me to give a movie like this three stars because "Legacy of Rage" is a fun 80s HK action flick.
But let's be honest your going into this to watch Bruce Lee's son kickass and put a martial arts beatdown on some fools.
Not only that but the film slows down a lot towards the middle and I mean A LOT, it picks back up during the final 15 minutes with some awesome carnage, but, sadly watching Bruce Lee's son machine gun people to death just left me hollow.
I heard different rumors that director Ronny Yu literally had to beg Lee to perform any sort of martial arts as he refused, not sure if this is true, but, sadly I walked away from "Legacy of Rage" glad I'd seen it, but, disappointed to a certain extent.
Brandon Lee makes it in Hong Kong cinema.
LEGACY OF RAGE is a decent Hong Kong action thriller of the mid 1980s and a film that marked a rare foray into Hong Kong cinema for Bruce Lee's son Brandon.
The plot that follows is surprisingly serious and slow-paced, a prison film for much of the running time, although the last fifteen minutes makes up for the earlier lack of action by letting rip with some crazy vehicle stunts, explosives, and violent shoot-outs.
This film boasts strong production values and an excellent cast of Hong Kong cinema greats, including Michael Chan Wai-Man as another gangster, Hoi Mang as a key ally, and Ku Feng as a prison guard.
Brandon Lee's Only Hong Kong Film.
This was Brandon Lee's (the son of Bruce Lee) only Hong Kong movie.
I thought his acting ability was okay, and he martial arts were good, but the execution of the movie was very bad.
As for competing with his father, the only decent Bruce Lee movie I have seen is his last one, Enter the Dragon.The action in this movie was very bad in my opinion.
The rest of the movie is Brandon Lee shooting up BMWs coming towards him.
I'm beginning to think that the one Brandon Lee movie I like (Rapid Fire) is a fluke.
Then again, neither Lee nor Wong are/were that great in English-speaking roles either.You might ask why am I spending so much time bitching about the acting in an action film.
There is a fairly vibrant shootout near the end, but by that point, it's too little, too late.Unless you're really (and I mean really) curious to see Brandon Lee in a HK movie, avoid this one.