| Stephen Chow plays a student of kung fu, living on an island near Hong Kong, who would rather play snooker than practice his martial arts. Once his con man Uncle (played by the legendary Leung Kar Yan) finds out his nephew has useful skills, he convinces his kung fu teaching brother to let his nephew join him in the big city of Hong Kong to make it rich and famous.
The unscrupulous uncle quickly tricks his naive nephew into playing snooker, for money, even though the nephew has sworn to his father that he would not gamble in the big city. The uncle soon finds himself behind the 8 ball when he must mislead his brother into gambling the family land on the island to secure a life changing wager.
The wager: Lung (Chow) must defeat real life snooker champion Jimmmy White in a snooker competition, in order to save the family land.
In between the snooker action, which is quite entertaining, Chow is his usual humorous self, revealing that he has narcolepsy and falls asleep at the most inappropriate times. Stephen Chow is a master at physical comedy.
Don't expect too much martial arts in this one. It's all about the comedy and snooker. There are a few fight scences choreographed by Corey Yuen Kwai and Yuen Wah in various parts of the film. However, they are very short in length and lack a little imagination.
Chow, being a Bruce Lee super fan, references Bruce a few times in the film, when Yuen Wah's character informs us that he worked as a stunt double on Mr. Lee's films.
Look out for brief cameos by Amy Yip and Lee Hoi San, to round out the cast.
To sum it all up LEGEND OF THE DRAGON is an okay film that shows Stephen Chow's upcoming comedy greatness that would soon be arriving in the likes of SHAOLIN SOCCER and KUNG FU HUSTLE. | 
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