Picture: Anamorphic Widescreen. When comparing to the other DVD releases of these films, the Fox/Fortune Star prints reveal overall crisper details. The prints are fairly clean, a tad worn and showing signs of their age with some lines/dirt and a high grain level, but nothing too severe. The contrast and color details are where they really shine. Contrast is nice, bible black, yet revealing good shadow details. The colors are vibrant, though very naturalistic, with good flesh tones. Technically there are some compression problems and quirks like motion blur and some minor edge enhancement.

So, it is a mixed bag. Pristine, perfect transfers still elude these films, however this is the best I've seen so far. The roughest of the lot, Way of the Dragon, has some diminished quality purely because of its low budget source woes. For Big Boss and especially Fist of Fury, these prints are quite good compared to previous releases, but I'll still be on the lookout for a definitive release (with perfect image/sound quality and detailed extras) of them someday.

Sound: Big Boss, Fists of Fury, and Way of the Dragon have English DTS, 5.1, and 2.0 Stereo Cantonese or Mandarin tracks. Game of Death 1&2 have English DTS, 5.1, or 2.0 Stereo tracks. Optional English subtitles for every film.

One only needs to compare the title theme song differences between the cheesy guy singing on the English version of Fist of Fury to the choir on the Mandarin/Cantonese tracks to determine which one is best. The original theatrical releases of the first three were Mandarin Mono, moderately reworked here into decent faux-stereo tracks. Again, some weakness sourcewise, a bit of muffle or tinniness, but nothing that is not unexpected.

The English tracks have remixed/redubbed action fx. It is absolutely ridiculous, with much of the added action fx jammed into the rear and side speakers, making it too loud, and it sounds like they just laid new sounds over the original fx. As a result, the sound of Bruce's nunchuks in Fist of Fury is laughably grandiose and overblown. It is a real shame they waste so much disc space with these remixes when a cleaned up version of the original tracks would have been just fine.

Extras: All of the films have: Original & New Trailers (plus trailers for other Fox/Fortune Star releases)— Bruce Lee Slide Show & Still Gallery photo options.

Specific to each disc the extras are: The Big Boss- Interview with director Tung Wai (2:37). Fists of Fury- Interview with actor/stunt performer Yuen Wah (9:39). Way of the Dragon- Interview with HK stars/directors/performers Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Paul Pui, Wong Jing, Flora Cheong, Clarence Fok, and Rocky Lai (6:50). Game of Death- Rare Outakes (10:33). Game of Death 2- Game of Death NG Shots (2:30).

The interviews are pretty fair. The best being the extended talk with Yuen Wah, an HK character actor veteran, who reveals tales of the stunt industry and how he doubled Lee. Mostly it is just the usual lavish praise stuff, a bunch of Lee glorifying soundbites. In terms of the Game of Death 1&2, the Outtakes and "NG Shots", there two extras are some of Bruce Lee's surviving Game of Death footage set to some techno underscoring. These two extras are nullified by John Little's documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey which covers some great bio info as well as a more comprehensive look at the history and footage from Lee's version of Game of Death.

Conclusion: For me, an unabashed Bruce Lee fan, I'm grateful for the prints of Big Boss and Fist of Fury. I really only like the finale fights in Way fo the Dragon and Game of Death. As for Game of Death 2, I regard it more as a "Brucesploitation" novelty rather than a Bruce Lee film, so it is in a different class altogether. For this box set, even if you are double dipping and already own other editions, the price is right. Other editions may have more extras, but at a MSRP of around $10 bucks a film, for the print quality alone, it is hard for any Bruce fan to beat.