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Fantastic!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

For a movie I knew nothing about and had only read a generic one-sentence description, this film turned out to be a good movie!The story is entertaining and fascinating, the violence is story driven and not unnecessarily used but while the movie did start out entertaining, it did start to lose it's way after the halfway point.There is very little action, it's mostly drama driven, but there is a graphic torture scene. It's well acted mostly by unknowns (well to me anyway) with the only people I knew were Harry Shum Jr (Glee) and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas). There is twist at the end and because it's based on a true story, there are some details on where some the characters are now.This is a film that is okay to watch once but I don't see myself watching it again.

Revenge of the Green Dragons is US debut of Hong Kong's celebrated director, Wai-Keung Lau (who co-directs) famous for Infernal Affairs.Revenge of the Green Dragons has Martin Scorsese as Executive Director. Scorsese won a Best Director Oscar for The Departed which was the American remake of Infernal Affairs, so he repays the favour.The film follows Sonny and Steven, two Chinese immigrant kids who become best friends and become involved with a Triad gang called The Green Dragons in 1980s New York. The films see these two friends rise amongst these ruthless gangsters and eventually Steven makes a fatal mistake while Sonny has had enough of the senseless violence and abuse such as the casual rape of Chinese women.The film's narration overpowers the film. It looks cheap with horrible cinematography. The acting is two dimensional and so is the script. You would not think this film is made by a legend of Hong Kong cinema.You might as well watch Year of the Dragon if you want to see a superior film about Chinese gangsters in America.

Movies like Enter The Dragon, Ronin, Entrapment imprinted lasting impressions in my young mind as a kid. Unfortunately, action movies today do not fill my action appetite as they simply are about over the top CGI and unrealistic action stories with their lack of surrealism and dark mood. However...this movie: Revenge of The Green Dragon resonates with the best movies from the 90's as it shows 2 young boys who are a product of their own underground gang society, beyond normal laws and morals but are loyal to their own codes and behavior. This movie has all the elements of a 90s classic.As most action movies from the 90's, this movie doesn't move fast and has a long developing story line which has an element of darkness and surrealism. The story line starts with main character illegally immigrating to an slumps of America setting the basis of how his society progressively turns him into a dark and immoral thug. For example, his gang has their own codes, who don't have a problem killing people but they do have a problem snitching to cops. The story branches out to many genres when the main character falls in love, seeks revenge, and is torn through his internal morals versus the gang's codes that are instilled in him. As the character ages, we see maturity and a change of heart in his actions. Unlike action movies today where there is a single straight forward mission, this movie is more like a slow progressive interpersonal narrative of ones life.I also enjoyed kevjumba's role in the movie as i've watched all his earlier youtube videos when I was a student at UC Davis. He is not as good as an actor as Justin Chon but still acted good enough to break out of his youtube character in the movie.

As a Chinese American, I grew up watching HK mob and Andy Lau movies. Because of this, I recognize some of common threads, loyalty, betrayal, over reaching, and redemption. The thing that kills this movie for me is the poor acting. Chon as a main character and "bad boy" is a joke. To be fair, all the characters that Chon played previously, a feminine insecure kid in the Twilight Series and a party boy in 21 were a flop. This may contribute to my poor perception of him as a male lead in this movie. The movie's topic was interesting and had potential as my wife grew up in flushing and can attest to the violence. But.....This movie felt like a slap in the face of HK style movies, so much so that I was compelled to create an account and voice my opinion. It was poorly executed by the actors. A low point in Andrew and Martin's repertoire.