Jet Li (“Lethal Weapon 4”, “The One”) delivers in “Fist Of Legend”, a remake of a Bruce Lee film. Here we see amazing kinetic energy and surprisingly we see characters and a story that don’t hold the film back, which is something most martial arts film fail to achieve.

In “Fist Of Legend”, Jet Li plays Chen Zhen, a Chinese martial artist living in Japan; he returns home after he hears news that his master was killed by the Japanese in China. He wishes to fight the Japanese and stand his ground as a Chinaman, there’s just one problem: his girlfriend is Japanese.

Jet Li radiates suaveness as he tackles countless foes, he tackles them not with chairs and other props like Jackie Chan (“Rush Hour”) nor by flying through the air like in “Crouching Tiger”, this is a much more plausible and more straightforward means of fighting but don’t that make you think it’s not incredible to watch. The villains are good, the girlfriend is good (the whole love story is kind-of sweet) and the whole film just works. So many times, we see martial artists held back by those around them, I must stress again that this is not the case in “Fist Of Legend”.

“Fist Of Legend” features a fight where Jet Li and his opponent are blindfolded and it’s beautiful, high-kicking and intense simultaneously. The combat here flows amazingly smoothly almost like you’re seeing a ballet and the story works, at times maybe the film takes itself too seriously but who cares? If you like martial arts films at all, then you have to see “Fist Of Legend” because it’s a pro of action movies at his prime; forget his C.G.I.-obsessed American movies (I’m looking at you “The One”), this is Jet Li showing us what he’s made of.