Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)

• Year: 2014
• Released: 11 Sep 2014
• Country: Hong Kong, United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396523/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Revenge_of_the_Green_Dragons
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/revenge-of-the-green-dragons
• Available in: 720p,
• Language: English, Chinese
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Michael Di Jiacomo, Andrew Loo, Fredric Dannen
• Director: Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo
• Cast: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr.

	5.3/10
	36/100
	15% – Critics
	30% – Audience

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REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang “The Green Dragons”. The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.

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BEHIND EVERY FORTUNE IS A CRIME

This is a film about the war between two gangs: The Green Dragons and the White Tigers. It is told through the view of the Green Dragons. Paul Wong (Harry Shum Jr.) is an intellectual businessman leader of the group, almost worshipped as a god. He brings in illegal’s because ir is better to be a slave in America than a free man in China. Sonny (Justin Cong) is a member of the Green Dragons and our protagonist as he doesn’t like the more violent aspects of the gang.

The film jumps from 1983 with a Reagan voice over on how wonderful immigrants are to 1989 when the view has changed. The Chinese gangs have branched out into a large crime syndicate and drugs from Hong Kong. Only Ray Liotta can stop them. The film was an interesting take on the American Dream and for better or worse creates turns into an illegal or undocumented scare film with the end commentary. The repeated voice over during the end parking garage scene was a poor selection and really didn’t keep with the overall theme of the film unless Asian on Asian crime is okay, but heaven help you if you kill a white man was the main theme, which seemed more of a sidebar during the feature. In that regard the script needed tightening, considering that it was filled with truisms and decent lines.

Good Martin Scorsese soundtrack. Decent crime drama.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, brief scenes of sex, rape, and nudity.

It is served cold

This is based on true events that happened in America. You may look at it, as either glorifying violence to a degree or making immigrants look bad, but that would be beside the point. I don’t believe this to be a propaganda either way. I do believe that the story is interesting and while it probably is heighten for movie purposes it deserved to be told in a way like this.

Acting is OK, the setting is decent and the action scenes deliver mostly (though they are not too heightened/fancy). There still is blood, not many women involved (other than to look pretty) and everything else you’d expect (for better or worse) from a B-movie, even without it being based on true life.

Stellar movie… up until the end

A very brutal gangster gangster epic about an Asian gang in New York in the 80’s and early 90’s.

Although the gangs are supposed to be immigrants they all speak perfect English which I guess was mostly to do with it being more easily to comprehend and more easily accessible for an English speaking audience who otherwise wouldn’t watch Asian cinema.

So it’s a non-issue really that one can look aside.

The acting is fine, as is the cinematography and editing etc. As I was watching it I found myself wondering why the rating was so low because I felt like it was a well-made movie on all levels.

But then of course in the end they had to throw one final twist into the mix that didn’t make any sense with the movie we just witnessed.

Really irks me when they do this in films, if you’re gonna add a twist you need to make sure that everything we witnessed checks out and that character personalities aren’t completely bypassed just for the sake of throwing in that twist.

Which is the exact thing they did not do here, won’t get into details but when you see it you will know what I mean.

Would have gotten a 7 but because of that I have to pull it down a notch to a 6.