This guy couldn't take my grandma. So slow and weak. No wonder fighting was kept to a minimum. Awful. Bruce Lee would have been 1000 times better. I remember Chuck Norris saying after he had to straighten Carradine out because Carradine had been overzealous in a fight scene, "He's about a good a fighter as I am an actor."
shareThere were 2 minutes of fight and the rest was story. I'm glad they put a real actor in the spot.
shareYou totally missed the point of this show.. It was never about "The Fight".. I'll admit that as a kid I enjoyed the fight scenes but that wasn't what the show was about... Bruce Lee was great at Martial Arts but he was better left to his action movies, this wasn't a role for him as it required meekness, humility, acting ability and intelligible dialogue..
Bill Steward
Lee was hands down the better fighter.And if Kung fu was all about kicking peoples asses then Lee would have been perfect.But in spite of what this shows title might have you believe it had very little to do with fighting.Kung fu was 99 percent story.And Carradine,while not a great fighter,was a great actor.Much better than Lee would have been.
"You dont know what death is" Sam Loomis Halloween 2
David Carradine was to maritial arts fighting what Bruce Lee was to acting. You can always teach a actor to fight, but you can't always teach a fighter to act.
The quality of mercy is not strained.
Carradine was an accomplished actor, and as much as I appreciate his performances in this show, and the character he created, I think I would have preferred a Chinese actor who was a skilled martial artist.
I often wonder how a show like that would have done back then.
Just to add here; I really didn't like Carradine's fight scenes. I thought theyh were laughable at best. And then back in the early 2000s when he tried to sell that series of DVDs with him as an actual Kung Fu sage, I really shook my head at him.
Still, Kung Fu itself was a decent show, and I'm glad to have seen it.