Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 11 segments
Before American audiences were introduced to him in Lethal Weapon 4, Jet Li was already a star in his home country and we are so grateful for that. This week we're watching 1994's Fist of Legend…
Stephen AdamsHostSo this week we watched Fist of Legend from 1994 starring the one and only Jet Li.
That was our choice for this week.
And so here we are to talk about it.
So, all right, let's see.
I'm going to start with a synopsis.
Sure.
This is our IMDb one-sentence synopsis.
A couple of problems I have with that.
Number one, yes, that does tell us about the movie, but not really about the movie.
There's more to it than that.
But number two, I'm not sure that it was set in 1937 because I'm reading somewhere else where it was set in 1914.
Oh, wow.
37 seems like this seems on the cusp because they're talking about the Germans in the early...
sequel to this that came out a few years later starring Donnie Yen called The Return of Chen Zhen.
It was set in 1917.
And I know it's a sequel because in the synopsis of that, they talk about Chen Zhen coming back after faking his death.
well.
No, I don't either, but they definitely...
It was that period.
So this week we watched Fist of Legend from 1994 starring the one and only Jet Li.
That was our choice for this week.
And so here we are to talk about it.
So, all right, let's see.
I'm going to start with a synopsis.
Sure.
This is our IMDb one-sentence synopsis.
A couple of problems I have with that.
Number one, yes, that does tell us about the movie, but not really about the movie.
There's more to it than that.
But number two, I'm not sure that it was set in 1937 because I'm reading somewhere else where it was set in 1914.
Oh, wow.
37 seems like this seems on the cusp because they're talking about the Germans in the early...
sequel to this that came out a few years later starring Donnie Yen called The Return of Chen Zhen.
It was set in 1917.
And I know it's a sequel because in the synopsis of that, they talk about Chen Zhen coming back after faking his death.
well.
No, I don't either, but they definitely...
It was that period.
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