Although Chan got his foothold in cinema as the "heir to Bruce Lee," he successfully developed a unique style of his own. By becoming a martial arts hero with a comic bent, he definitively moved out of Lee's shadow.
成龍雖然以「李小龍接班人」在影壇發跡，不過日後他成功發展出自己特色，轉型為功夫喜劇英雄後，早已脫離李小龍的影子。