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The Dolby Vision HDR presentation also kicks butt thanks to excellent contrast and brightness balance, showering the action in brilliant whites, accurately-rendered blacks and crisp, radiant specular highlights while also maintaining outstanding shadow delineation throughout.
Overlooking the occasionally distracting ADR work, dialogue reproduction is also outstanding with precise, intelligible vocals in the center. NEW Visions of Fury (HD, 36 min) is a featurette examining the collaboration between Lee and the filmmakers of his first two films and featuring various interviews. Note: while all UHDs are region free, all the new Arrow included 1080p blu-rays are locked for region 'B'.Once again, there are three DTS-HD MA mono options that fans can choose from with the Mandarin being the best and most faithful to the original presentation. Without a doubt, The Way of the Dragon is rightfully immortalized by the climactic showdown between Lee and another legendary martial artist — Chuck Norris in his feature-length debut as the brutally lethal Colt.
Ignoring Enter…, Game of Death is somewhere between the two sets of images – with so much overt optical manipulation to work around the absence of Lee, and with the heavy use of shadows as an actual mask, the film veers between some near pristine first-generation footage of the likes of Colleen Camp and Hugh O’Brian and most of the added material (where fine detail levels are approaching that seen in the first two films), to some fairly rough inserts that manage to look even worse than Way… Mostly however, the image looks decent enough, again with no detail in Arrow’s material on the restoration, stating its from original film ‘elements’ hints at another IP used as a source. Lee’s first film for the studio was The Big Boss and it proved to be a massive hit in Hong Kong, breaking all sorts of box office records, making him an instant star.Having barely scratched the surface on these newly produced extras – unfortunately time prevents me from listening to the audio commentaries (there are eight of them after all) – the pick of the bunch here are the new documentaries on the dubbing actors (disc two), the incredibly detailed look at Lee’s life with Tony Rayns (disc three), the look at Lee’s film making on Way… (disc four) and the mega doc on Game of Death (disc eight). In later close ups, we almost get there with some decent textural complexity and relatively sharp lines on show (Norris’ chest hair is still nicely clear! this release brilliantly includes a huge range of audio options for fans who may have grown up with a very particular soundtrack lodged in their brains. Not only is The Big Boss cherished as Bruce Lee's feature-length debut, for which it deservedly should be immortalized, but the martial arts film also deserves to be remembered for revitalizing interest in kung fu movies, overtaking the wuxia films that were popular in Hong Kong cinemas at the time. his seething ball of barely contained rage sees him permanently straddle the fine line between cocksure swagger and supreme mastery of his skills.
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