Goofs

During the fight outside the restaurant with butcher knives, Bruce throws one of the knives at an opponent. When the knife is shown sticking into the wall it is now a standard triangular shaped knife.

When Bruce see's his children playing, Brandon starts moving his train on the track from where was sitting. But when the camera goes back to the child from Bruce, the train is just starting again and wouldn't have been in the correct position between shots.

During the fight in the alley outside the restaurant, when Bruce and the two workers are fighting on the iron girders, the girders are suddenly much closer to the ground when the workers are kicked off by Bruce.

Bruce takes his left sock off twice when he fights the bully at college.

Bruce Lee hurt his back lifting weights, not in a fight. The fight scene is an distortion of a true-life fight in Lee's school.

Throughout the movie Bruce spends plenty of time doing back flips and somersaults in his fight scenes, however the real Bruce Lee's fighting style was very grounded and direct, focusing more on effective hits than on fancy movements.

Bruce Lee was already running his own kung-fu school (in Seattle) when he met his wife-to-be; he did not open this school at her suggestion, as the film indicates.

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do was published in 1979 after Lee's death. He did not get it in the mail like he did in the movie.

Bruce Lee began his martial arts training at the age of 13 after being beaten up by a street gang. He did not begin martial arts training at an earlier age because of a nightmare as the movie suggests.

When Bruce punches the first block of ice thrown at him in Thailand, you can see an enclosed explosive charge detonate just before the block shatters.

During the fight at the restaurant, a cook throws a wok at Bruce. Bruce kicks him back toward the stove--it's supposed to look as if Bruce kicked the cook onto the surface of the stove, but the cook instead stumbles back against the stove, then hops up on top of the burners.

During the ice house fight scene while filming "The Big Boss", it is easy to see that the circular ice saw is much thicker than an actual saw blade and lacks teeth.

When the first chef swings his cleaver at Bruce in the kitchen, it wobbles very badly as if made of rubber.

At one point in the film, Bruce and Linda are watching on television the premier of the pilot movie for the TV series Kung Fu. Bruce then gets a phone call informing him that his father is dead. Bruce goes to Hong Kong for his father's funeral and afterward is cast in the film The Big Boss. All of this took place between 1970 and 1971. However, the pilot film for Kung Fu was not premiered until 1972 and his father died in 1965 - just 6 days after Bruce's son Brandon was born.

In an early scene, a student walks into Bruce Lee's martial arts class in Oakland in 1964 and declares that he's watched some "chopsocky flicks" and wants to learn martial arts. "Chopsocky" was a word coined by the show business trade journal Variety in 1973 to describe Bruce Lee's films and the Hong Kong kung fu films that came to the U.S. that year. It was a genre that was completely unknown in the U.S. in 1964 and existed only in nascent form in Hong Kong that early.

Bruce Lee is seen watching Kung Fu (1972) (which was conceived by and for him but the main character given to David Carradine instead) sometime between 1967 when "The Green Hornet" goes off the air and 1970 when he makes his first movie in Hong Kong.

When Lee fights the man in the ice factory and does a high-jumping roundhouse kick, you can see the stunt wire connected to his back as he comes back down.

During the ice house fight scene while filming "The Big Boss", after Bruce punches the ice blocks, he and Luke Sun grapple and Bruce gets thrown by Luke into some boxes - during this, the support wire is visible on Bruce's back.

In the nightmare sequence at the martial arts school, a slightly low-angled two-shot of Lee and the armoured warrior shows a large boom mic dangling through the mist above their heads.