Year of the Dragon
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Movie Reviews of Year of the Dragon
Movie Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent!! One of the best movies Mickey Rourke has ever starred in!Movie Review: Product of another Time
Summary: 3 Stars
A truly odd experience to watch now. Only recommended if you're looking for some cool '80s nostalgia: Elegant camera angles and blue filters. Gorgeous minimalist lofts. Shocking lack of political correctness. (One scene seems even far more pro rape than that infamous scene in Gone with the Wind.) And Mickey Rourke. However Dragon feels decidedly low budget, abrupt, overly stylized and cheesy, and laughably inconsistent, esp. character wise. Stone was practicing at this point, trying to discover his own style. One minute he's shooting a music video, the next borrowing the swelling violins and saucy exchange of a Sam Spade movie, the next it looks like he's shooting a spaghetti western in Mexico, but with asian actors. And there aren't a whole lot of transitions to hold all this together. As much as I love '80s Rourke-9 1/2 weeks is near sacred to me-this would have worked better with someone older, not Rourke playing so much older, with Halloween vampire highlights/greylights. And Rourke seems too hard to be trying to be an angry er "cracked" middle age crackpot. I think Nick Nolte-channeling a toned down Jerry from "Down and Out in Beverly Hills"-would have been great in this.
Because of the confusion about his age (and the harping on Vietnam gets tired, although an '80s hallmark)it is disturbing to see him married to such a grandmotherly looking actress. By today's standards it is astounding. The movie seems confused about the couples age too-his senior citizen looking wife (She honestly bears a resemblance to Angela Lansbury and has a tiresome martyr complet to boot.) is trying to conceive?!! Admittedly this is preferable to today. What a great time for older actresses. (Except for the whole rape part-granted feminists go way too far today-but honestly where were they on this film?) And it's nice to think that Hollywood didn't have Woody Allen's pedophiliac preference for young girls with geriatric men. How things have changed. Nonetheless the age confusion drove me crazy.
Movie Review: Whatever Happened to John Lone?
Summary: 3 Stars
"Year of the Dragon" though consistently engaging is a highly uneven film. While it purports to be about the Chinese underworld I don't think I knew any more on the topic than before I watched this film. I attribute this to the script by director Michael Cimino and Oliver Stone which has more than it's share of bloated rhetoric. Mickey Rourke, not helped by the silver dye job, does the best he can with the dialogue he's forced to spew as Stanley White, returning Vietnam vet turned police captain who has a personal vendetta in cleaning up Chinatown that remains vague to me. Arianne, who plays the TV reporter whom Rourke beds, has to be one of the worst actresses this side of "Showgirls". The film is elevated by the performance of John Lone as Joey Tai, ruthlessly ambitious crimelord. Lone is so coolly suave that you wish that more of the film had dedicated itself to his character instead of Rourke's. I do admire Cimino as a director, however. He's from the old school of seventies filmmakers whose most flawed work is as interesting as more successfully commercial product. As a screenwriter that's another story.Movie Review: Year of the Drinking Game
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay, line up as many shot glasses as you can find, play the movie, and you drink:
-every time Mickey Rourke's character says something racist
-every time Mickey Rourke's character mentions spare ribs
-every time Ariane has a gratuitous nude scene
Even if all you've got is lite beer, you'll be hammered by the time Capt. Stanley White gets his transfer orders in the third act.
Movie Review: Not Cimino's best effort>>>
Summary: 3 Stars
I still like this movie, but I wish they would have left out some of the storyline [I think the trip to Burma could have been left out].
I would rate this higher, but the movie digresses too much. I would have preferred to have more of John Lone [who's exceptional!] and more Mickey Rourke.
Still, it was enjoyable.