NOTE: Criterion's Blu-ray Boxset of Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits [ 7 Blu-ray Set ] is compared HERE

NOTE: These Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

Firstly, the 11 disc 'Bruce Lee Legacy Collection' package is divided as follows:

Disc 1) The Big Boss DVD

Disc 2) The Big Boss Blu-ray

Disc 3) Fist of Fury DVD

Disc 4) Fist of Fury Blu-ray

Disc 5) Way of the Dragon DVD

Disc 6) Way of the Dragon Blu-ray

Disc 7) Game of Death DVD

Disc 8) Game of Death Blu-ray

Disc 9) Bruce Lee The Legend / Bruce Lee: The Man, The Legend DVD

Disc 10) I Am Bruce Lee DVD

Disc 11) Bonus supplements DVD

Firstly, kudos to Shout! Factory for going to the trouble of obtaining the better, Asian, Masters and waiting to release this Blu-ray package properly.

Video: We've already compared each individual release - posting matching screen captures, commenting on a/v and extras here: The Big Boss, Fist Of Fury, The Way Of The Dragon and Game of Death. Please visit those comparisons for a more detailed review of those particular 1080P renderings.

But to give a general view. These are equally robust, technically, to the Kam & Ronson corresponding Blu-rays - expect for The Way Of The Dragon where Shout! Factory produce a strong dual-layered transfer. Generally while they look similar - skin tones cool and look significantly more realistic. Otherwise these are all dual-layered with supportive bitrates and no manipulation that we could determine. These films never looks pritine after production and this is the best we are likely to get for these four Bruce Lee films.

Audio offers lossless bumps with multiple options including the original and English DUBs. All 4 have optional English subtitles and the Blu-ray discs are all region 'A'-locked.

We have reviewed the extras on the Blu-rays on each individual comparisons. Each offer a Mike Leeder commentary (with some audio mix issues) but are generally quite good. There are also alt-openings, endings, trailers, TV Spots and Stills galleries plus a good collection of interviews with Gene Lebell, Tung Wai, Yuen Wah, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Wong Jing, Jon Benn etc. .

Aside from the four DVDs of the feature films (with the extras from the BDs) there are also 3 Bonus DVDs (labeled discs 9, 10 and 11). DVD disc 9 has the feature documentaries - Leonard Ho's 1977 Bruce Lee: The Legend (1:34:05) and Shih Wu's 1973 Bruce Lee: The Man, The Legend (1:22:45) from an Asian viewpoint. On disc 10 there is Pete McCormack's entertaining 2012 documentary I am Bruce Lee (1:26:04) with some supplements including 12 minutes of Backyard Training - Bruce Lee's Personal Films as well as his Hollywood Audition. Bonus DVD (disc 11) has more interviews with Bob Wall, discussions with Dan Inosanto, a bio piece - Legacy of the Dragon and a 50 minute Bruce Lee Remembered with new Interviews with Anthony Delongis, Byron Mann, Daniel Nguyen, Director Jason Evans and Jason McNiel plus another 45-minutes of Fist of Fury Interviews with Nora Miao, Riki Hashimoto, Jun Katsumura. Almost 3-hours on this last disc alone.

There are some things to gripe about - the absence of Enter the Dragon for instance will bother some. I've heard others complain about the image quality. But as for the latter there is not much Shout! Factory could do - these are the best sources available for these films and I see technically strong transfers without digital manipulation. You can't really blame them and in-motion these DO look, as well as sound, improved! I would have liked to see some of the better Green Hornet episodes included but perhaps that is a stretch. Shout! Factory have gone beyond the call of duty on the extras - and it is all housed in a beautiful book. Yes, I enjoyed the heck out of seeing these for the umpteenth time and the supplements are very much appreciated - we recommend!  

Gary W. Tooze