Review of Year of the Dragon (1985) by J M — 19 Jan 2008

A great movie by Micheal Cimino! It's a mix of a noir gangster movie (Rourke's character wears clothes that seem to come from a Humphrey Bogart's movie), a movie about American meltin' pot and a strange Western taking place in Manhattan (see especially the dualism beetween the 2 protagonists).

John Lone is perfect as the young, elegant and ambitious manager-boss of Chinese mob in Chinatown. Also Rourke's character is interesting: the rude Polish captain of police, ex soldier in Vietnam, who seems to not care about his friends' lives to win his own war agains the mob.

And Mickey Rourke IMO is the only problem of this movie: I find his acting pretty annoying certain times...