Any other director would have made this a cookie-cutter cop thriller. Michael Cimino is not a director I feel I understand very well yet but he is always interesting. There are some notable stylistic similarities to the Deer Hunter here, not the least of which is the score. Mickey Rourke is in top form, as he almost always is, and once again proves himself to be among the greatest screen actors of our time. I think this is an underrated film that tries to stretch the limits of its genre.

In overcoming some pretty substantial narrative and dialogue problems it attains (or at least resembles) greatness thanks to Cimino's audiovisual touches and Mickey Rourke's performance.

62.000

Year of the Dragon has all the cliches of the hard-boiled crime film, but it just has so much more. Oliver Stone's script, which rivals Midnight Express as his best, is so slick that it can afford to go over-the-top with gusto and still has you going. Cimino never directed something so intense, rapidly paced and visually arresting before or since, and it's the crowning achievement of Rourke as an actor. At once colorful and pitch black, an exhilarating movie.

Very similar to another film Stone wrote--Scarface, only this one has cool Mickey Rourke and sparkly Chinatown instead of loud Al Pacino and garish Miami.

Not good, but a film with some really unusual virtues. Great performance by Rourke

Was somewhat disappointed - the pacing seemed off, and the way the women were treated fit the character but not the film as a whole (killing one off to justify his being with another; is it a requirement to have Rourke with a nude woman in every one of his films?). But Rourke's performance was outstanding, and the end scene on the train tracks was amazing, despite (and perhaps because of) its blatant homage to The Third Man.

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