Year of The Dragon review || Roger Ebert

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[dnasty]

*Mickey Rourke* and *John Lone?* Yes, please! This is such an underrated film 👍

[lerm]

Movie is a freight train that never stops!! One powerful scene after another!! Rourke at his charismatic best playing the kind of flawed “hero” that’s long gone from contemporary films. so
many memorable lines
and characters. easily one of the 80’s top ten

[scottjulie]

John Lone was absolutely amazing in this movie.

I really love this film and it is so highly underrated.

[earlygail]

If you didn’t spend any time in NY or SF Chinatown’s in the 70’s and 80’s, this movie may entertain but will never be understood. It was literally the most Chinese centered (by a million miles) Hollywood movie before the Joy Luck Club. The research, sets, Chinese actors and extras- incredible. Add to it the on location parts shot in Thailand- if you know anything about the history of the Golden Triangle, you should be massively impressed.

[dbanner]

Oliver Stone's dialogue crackles here

[noelwilson]

Fucking Great movie, Cimino's Craftwork, Screenplay by Stone and Mickey full throttle. Classic of the 80s

[npxmnpxm]

"Structurally a mess, " you can say that again.

[sha]

So Roger did like this. I remember when it came out and it got a lot of pans.

[ianbauer]

Michael Cimino's masterpiece, next to The Deer Hunter.

[trandat]

I find similarities between Ebert's and Norn Mcdonald's accent. Can anyone explain?

[l.salisbury]

The main point of the movie was for Cimino to redeem himself after Heaven's Gate. Didn't quite happen. After Year of the Dragon Cimino only made three more films. They received minimal fanfare and distribution. His final movie The Sunchaser (1996) went directly to video Stateside!

[photosjeff]

Saw this recently on HBO max, ...just laughing. The dialogue, bad acting, everything. 😂😂😂

[kh]

This movie felt like I was watching Clint Eastwood's racist grandpa from Gran Torino act out the Shutter Island detective plot. I was thoroughly entertained for the entire film but Im never watching that again lmao

[mattoresko]

I am a big fan of Rodger Ebert. But he got this one completely wrong

[nicholasjanke]

I just saw this movie. It was god awful! One of the worst crime films I ever saw