Young Bruce Lee (AKA “The Little Dragon” or "The Real Bruce Lee" and not to be confused with the more modern movie that sometimes goes by the same title) is a documentary focusing mostly on Bruce’s early film career. There are several lengthy clips from his childhood movies. These are old and very poor quality but provide a glimpse of Bruce as a child. His father has a short screen appearance in one of them.

In one of them Bruce is a crook-in-the-making as he befriends a gangster. In an unrelated clip he’s a young gangster himself (this one includes an odd cartoon about a magic monkey). Later he is an orphan kid kidnapped by a criminal. Hm, I am detecting a common theme here. Other clips include some moments from Fist of Fury, some fight scenes from The Green Hornet, and a few trailers and clips from his major adult films.

The more biographical moments include a short Jeet Kune Do demo, the opening of his school, his travel to China, and his work up to his death. It also includes a strange dramatization of his final moments and contains incorrect info about his death. The man most commonly known as Bruce Li plays Bruce in the dramatizations.

What can I say about this? I was pretty bored from start to finish. This is heralded as a “collector’s dream.” I guess I am not enough of a collector because I was almost reduced to dreams while trying to watch it. It is slow, with some of the movie clips longer than I thought they should be.

Besides that I think it tries to cover too much ground and therefore ends up being unfocused. It appears to be about Bruce’s early life and starts out that way, but it cannot resist moving on into his later years which it covers poorly.