I had this movie legally but my ex kept it. I thought it was really good, and having lived in NYC for so long and having Chinese clients for my business, I found it interesting. Some aspects of the movie, I found fairly accurate. At the very least, I found it entertaining. I will try to find this on DVD, perhaps ask my médiathèque here in France to buy this.
I like the role of Mickey in this good old movie. He went too far for the cause he believed to be worth the fighting. He didn't stop at nothing even when his life was endangered and close people died. The idea of a man almost obsessed with something he regards primal, and fighting to the last breath is inspiring!
@Joeplesciafilm I strongly agree! Mickey Rourke in this movie looks, acts, and talks too much like Bruce Willis, as if he is trying hard to be like Bruce Willis, just watch the movie and notice how he talks and looks, don't tell me he is not the exact replicate of Bruce.... and somehow, when he got older, he stopped.....lol...
i liked this movie. i really start to understand it. i think that is a little better than american gangster. intelligetn plot, a bit crazy action scenes but a nice film
Is this complete beast of a film out in UK "region" on DVD/Blue Ray, just USA region 1 I seem to see online shops which wont run on my countries players?
This movie is so fucking awesome. It's one of those movies I watched just because it was an old Mickey Rourke movie and it turned out to be one of my favorite films.
I bought it second-hand at a video rental 5 years ago. I watched it again yesterday. It's an excellent movie. Too bad it did not have commercial success in 1985!
Right. Let's show some serious John Lone appreciation here. Conveying with one look and an otherwise stoic facial expression what others need ten pages of dialog for - he's BRILLIANT! Such a shame he has done so few movies.
Right. Let's show some serious John Lone appreciation here. Conveying with one look and an otherwise stoic facial expression what others need ten pages of dialog for - he's BRILLIANT! Such a shame he has done so few movies.
Gotta love Rourke in his prime. I wish this film was held in higher regard, even just among crime thrillers. Cimino proved that he was still a directorial force, John Lone brought suaveness and depth to the 'ethnic villain' role, and Rourke damn near tore the screen up.
One can only hope that Cimino gets a chance to make another film as good as this someday.
Ah, 80's cop movies. "Year of the Dragon", "To Live and Die in LA", "Off Limits", "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard". Good times people, good times! We have "Dirty Harry" to blame for that.
This movie is so amazing, one of my favorite. My favorite Mickey Rourke movie ! His just delivering an incredible performence. John Lone is great too, and so is the Oliver Stone screenplay and the Cimino direction. A real treat !
I havent seen this movie but Ive read old contemporary reviews of it from the 80s. It seems like Heat but 10 yrs earlier. You can definitely see the Michael Mann spark in it.
I remember working on this film as a best boy. It was a great film and rourke was a great guy! He would later let his go to a big party with him down at the fixer. He bought out the bar for the night and I remember even tho the girls he was with we're clearly underage and that he would smoke rocked up cocaine right in front of us, that he would make sure we all got home safe!
They were shooting this movie in Greenpoint Brooklyn when I was a kid. The trailers were parked on my block. Some guy in a fedora and a trenchcoat was adjusting his hat in the reflection of a limo window. My mother and sister went to the other side of the limo and tried to see inside. Then my mother asked the guy: "Is anyone important in this movie?" The guy said: "No. Just a bunch of bums!". We rented the movie about a year later. My mother gasped: "That's HIM!". It was Mickey Rourke!
Mickey Rourke plays homocide detective Stanley White in this film, in real life he worked the beat with him. In this he gives an incredible performance and plays a person much older than his years, his hair is dyed grey for the role. Rourke well and truly pulls it off, totally believable and a truly gritty and epic film of its time. Oliver Stone wrote the script too, what more could be added?
So true. I am still very pissed that the Academy didn't award Rourke the Oscar for his performance in "The Wrestler." That slight ranks right up there with Art Carney getting the Oscar over Pacino after "The Godfather Part II."
Probably because of Michael Cimino. Let's face it, it's industry people that decide who is nominated. Made the best film of all time? Doesn't matter if you aren't well-liked/well-connected in the film industry. It's as political as the Academy Awards. Bullshit.
Mickey attacked a fridge in this one. Curiously, he attacked a fridge in Pope of Greenwich Village as well. I think he has a love/hate relationship with them.
Mickey Rourke was AWESOME in The Pope of Greenwich Village, as was Eric Roberts AND Bert Young!!!
But Year of the Dragon was STUNNING for Rourke's portrayal of the Polish Catholic Stanley White. "You made one mistake, Joey Thai. I'm not Italian. I'm a Polack. AND I CAN'T BE BOUGHT!"
I'm curious about this movie...ever since "The Wrestler", I've been gaining serious respect for Mickey Rourke...I just saw "Angel Heart" and man, what a blisteringly great movie...is "Year of the Dragon" worth the Netflix rent?
Absolutely, bro...I also recommend "Angel Heart", which I think was his last great film prior to "The Wrestler" (a difference of 21 years...damn!)..check that one out when you have the time
Thank you for this trailer because it's not even in the Uk Dvd.One of my favourite films of Mickey Rourke's one of the greatest actors in the planet and his performance as Stanley White in this film was simply outstanding.
right on the nose. I can't stand the fact that now everyone understands it cause of the wrestler, he was always a great. A few crummy films but none the less a real actor....
Great movie and amazing performance by Mickey Rourke. Marlon Brando a well-known anti-racist, loved this movie back in the day. The all racist shit by critics is crap.
..was calling the triads "a thousand year old big fuck - up"..which makes him right, not racist!! I was so angry that time, cause the day I watched the movie in cinema I went home and turned the TV on!! There I heard the critics talk about M. Rourke playing a "racist hero"!!
Sometimes I think Mickey Rourke never really had the chance to become a Top Star, cause whenever he performed in a movie the audience found something to rate it bad!! It was that way with "Angel heart", one of the best thrillers I know, where people took offence at the sex scene..suddenly it was pornography!! Year of the dragon now is one of the best (and most critical) cop thrillers ever made - and people called Stanley White a racist!! The only "racist" thing he did..
It was more Michael Cimino who was under attack. The same happened with "The Deer Hunter" and "Heaven´s Gate" because American audience is ignorant. As for Stanley White, he didn´t like Asians at all but he was far from racist. The media needs controversy to have work. Cimino always tried to show America the way it is and suffered the consequences.
back when rourke was hot.
Hot80s 1 month ago
Lone was a looker.
1whokncallthethunder 1 month ago
I had this movie legally but my ex kept it. I thought it was really good, and having lived in NYC for so long and having Chinese clients for my business, I found it interesting. Some aspects of the movie, I found fairly accurate. At the very least, I found it entertaining. I will try to find this on DVD, perhaps ask my médiathèque here in France to buy this.
slobomotion 2 months ago
Screenplay by Oliver Stone!!
NorCal4Life925breh 4 months ago
kickass movie! the ending shoot out was fantastic
PanterAmetal100 5 months ago
I like the role of Mickey in this good old movie. He went too far for the cause he believed to be worth the fighting. He didn't stop at nothing even when his life was endangered and close people died. The idea of a man almost obsessed with something he regards primal, and fighting to the last breath is inspiring!
890slay 5 months ago
mickey rourke's voice sounds completely different in this movie compared to his voice now
Joeplesciafilm 6 months ago
@Joeplesciafilm I strongly agree! Mickey Rourke in this movie looks, acts, and talks too much like Bruce Willis, as if he is trying hard to be like Bruce Willis, just watch the movie and notice how he talks and looks, don't tell me he is not the exact replicate of Bruce.... and somehow, when he got older, he stopped.....lol...
EzZodd 1 month ago
@EzZodd way before die hard. Bruces best.
mfuji02 1 month ago
ジョン・ローンは千年に一人の超美形！
TheCBE14220 7 months ago
i liked this movie. i really start to understand it. i think that is a little better than american gangster. intelligetn plot, a bit crazy action scenes but a nice film
kjsh987 7 months ago
Is this complete beast of a film out in UK "region" on DVD/Blue Ray, just USA region 1 I seem to see online shops which wont run on my countries players?
Benwell1 9 months ago
is that ricky tang from rush hour 2?
Expendable2010 9 months ago
@Expendable2010 Yessir
Redgrant80 7 months ago
This movie is so fucking awesome. It's one of those movies I watched just because it was an old Mickey Rourke movie and it turned out to be one of my favorite films.
tylerdurden187 10 months ago
is this action film???
funcooldrew2 11 months ago
I bought it second-hand at a video rental 5 years ago. I watched it again yesterday. It's an excellent movie. Too bad it did not have commercial success in 1985!
ProfPA 1 year ago
Right. Let's show some serious John Lone appreciation here. Conveying with one look and an otherwise stoic facial expression what others need ten pages of dialog for - he's BRILLIANT! Such a shame he has done so few movies.
rokoschnuckel 1 year ago
Right. Let's show some serious John Lone appreciation here. Conveying with one look and an otherwise stoic facial expression what others need ten pages of dialog for - he's BRILLIANT! Such a shame he has done so few movies.
rokoschnuckel 1 year ago
@rokoschnuckel
I dunno, I think John Lone was best in that wordless caveman role.
But it is good to see our heroes back in the eighties when they were so young and purty.
However, that beeyotch who played the reporter, eccch!
pinz2022 10 months ago
Classical movie. Mood of 80's, hard- boiled, fair cop in main role and Mickey in his prime.
I can't understand what is about with that 5 Golden Raspberry Awards. It's a bad joke or effect of ridiculous political correctness.
Toudmen 1 year ago
this is the first movie where the desert eagle appeared
kjsh987 1 year ago
i havent seen this inforever now i want to go rent it
HuckeysWorld 1 year ago
Gotta love Rourke in his prime. I wish this film was held in higher regard, even just among crime thrillers. Cimino proved that he was still a directorial force, John Lone brought suaveness and depth to the 'ethnic villain' role, and Rourke damn near tore the screen up.
One can only hope that Cimino gets a chance to make another film as good as this someday.
eddystone333 1 year ago
Wot a great film,Mickey Rourke is da Marlon Brando dis generation of movie go'er never had:( GREAT ACTOR & GREAT FILM
gman82able 1 year ago
@gman82able Agreed! It makes me wonder why it wasn´t a success.
VitoPossilipo 1 year ago
Fucking Great
hustler411 1 year ago
New York without the twin towers like cornflake without the milk..
newellgirl 1 year ago
Ah, 80's cop movies. "Year of the Dragon", "To Live and Die in LA", "Off Limits", "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard". Good times people, good times! We have "Dirty Harry" to blame for that.
alexo1176 1 year ago
@alexo1176 Dats Y ppl luv dem movies
gman82able 1 year ago
This movie is so amazing, one of my favorite. My favorite Mickey Rourke movie ! His just delivering an incredible performence. John Lone is great too, and so is the Oliver Stone screenplay and the Cimino direction. A real treat !
Tornaventofilms 1 year ago
Great, bloody, brutal, controversial but unfortunately so truthful movie.
Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Caroline Kava did a great job.
I miss old good the 80's
Magnolia296 1 year ago
Is the chinese restaurant a Starbucks now on Canal St? they kept the ceiling
dizkoteck 1 year ago
I havent seen this movie but Ive read old contemporary reviews of it from the 80s. It seems like Heat but 10 yrs earlier. You can definitely see the Michael Mann spark in it.
Defender78 1 year ago
I remember working on this film as a best boy. It was a great film and rourke was a great guy! He would later let his go to a big party with him down at the fixer. He bought out the bar for the night and I remember even tho the girls he was with we're clearly underage and that he would smoke rocked up cocaine right in front of us, that he would make sure we all got home safe!
thefriendsociety 2 years ago
They were shooting this movie in Greenpoint Brooklyn when I was a kid. The trailers were parked on my block. Some guy in a fedora and a trenchcoat was adjusting his hat in the reflection of a limo window. My mother and sister went to the other side of the limo and tried to see inside. Then my mother asked the guy: "Is anyone important in this movie?" The guy said: "No. Just a bunch of bums!". We rented the movie about a year later. My mother gasped: "That's HIM!". It was Mickey Rourke!
mindstormsabrewin 2 years ago 4
Mickey Rourke plays homocide detective Stanley White in this film, in real life he worked the beat with him. In this he gives an incredible performance and plays a person much older than his years, his hair is dyed grey for the role. Rourke well and truly pulls it off, totally believable and a truly gritty and epic film of its time. Oliver Stone wrote the script too, what more could be added?
Rourkeangel 2 years ago
Mickey Rourkes Best film and possibly the best film ever made.. hugely quotable, great action set pieces and epic crime story.. I love this movie
Rourkeangel 2 years ago 3
@Rourkeangel Great film, but Rourke's best was Pope of Greenwich Village.
JesusSucksHorseCock 1 year ago
Mickey is such a legend...
colderbeer 2 years ago 4
he is still doing big things....went down a rocky path but he has seen the light bro
BloodBoxing 2 years ago 3
So true. I am still very pissed that the Academy didn't award Rourke the Oscar for his performance in "The Wrestler." That slight ranks right up there with Art Carney getting the Oscar over Pacino after "The Godfather Part II."
colderbeer 2 years ago
Badass, period. Dated...yes. Incredible actors. Thank you for posting.
fingletoad 2 years ago
im stunned this was nominated at the Razzie awards. this was a really good film
warpfield98 2 years ago 5
Probably because of Michael Cimino. Let's face it, it's industry people that decide who is nominated. Made the best film of all time? Doesn't matter if you aren't well-liked/well-connected in the film industry. It's as political as the Academy Awards. Bullshit.
kukuyeah 2 years ago
"pOLISH" ... one of the only words in english whose pronunciation change by virtue of being capitalized.
"This is NOT the Bronx, or Brooklyn. It's not even New York, it's CHINATOWN.."
zippyman818 2 years ago
John Lone is really handsome!!
moon3817 2 years ago 32
my dad was in this movie!!!!!!!!!!
crazyjoseph144 2 years ago 3
which character he was?
kjsh987 2 years ago
*pounds fist on desk*
"Nobody wants to win this thing, do you?!"
Rourke is intensity personified...
CesMan83 2 years ago
"Dollars are like small fish, difficult to catch, and not to be thrown back except as bait for something bigger."
This movie is outstanding. I recommend it to anyone.
eggsmcmuffin 2 years ago 4
Shit man Rourke is such a badass.
NACPRODUCTIONS1 2 years ago
underrated excellence...superior acting...
a crime masterwork
theflorgeormix 2 years ago
the trailer makes it seem like his the main character lols, i really want to watch this for john sake.
clooneygirl07 2 years ago
Mickey attacked a fridge in this one. Curiously, he attacked a fridge in Pope of Greenwich Village as well. I think he has a love/hate relationship with them.
koreoh12 2 years ago 16
@koreoh12 ...and I thought I was the only person on the Earth who knew Mickey Rourke had a grudge against kitchen appliances!
"Ya know, Paulie. You got a serious thinking disorder."
JesusSucksHorseCock 1 year ago
Can someone please upload the entire film!?
Knicksoulja 2 years ago
Mickey Rourke was AWESOME in The Pope of Greenwich Village, as was Eric Roberts AND Bert Young!!!
But Year of the Dragon was STUNNING for Rourke's portrayal of the Polish Catholic Stanley White. "You made one mistake, Joey Thai. I'm not Italian. I'm a Polack. AND I CAN'T BE BOUGHT!"
If I were Polish, I'd shit myself at that line!
Superb film!!!
RestiveBob 2 years ago 6
This film is GREAT!!!
bought it on amazon 18 months ago,
watched it more than any other.
CesMan, canadacup is correct. all great films... IMO, Rourke is the best actor of the last 25 years, a natural, with a great delivery and presence.
goldsaj 3 years ago
Classic another good one is china girl
wilfred35 3 years ago
Does any one know the name of the song played at the end?
jlhkia 3 years ago
Sorry just found it on another video - "Dream Dance"
jlhkia 3 years ago
how the hell did this movie get nominated for worst film of the year? It's a great movie and one f Mickey Rourke's best
pjdr 3 years ago 3
I'm curious about this movie...ever since "The Wrestler", I've been gaining serious respect for Mickey Rourke...I just saw "Angel Heart" and man, what a blisteringly great movie...is "Year of the Dragon" worth the Netflix rent?
CesMan83 3 years ago 3
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you neophytes are so gay, just rent the fucking movie
primecomposite 3 years ago
oh yeah definatly it's one of his best, the pope of greenwich village and barfly are really good too!
pjdr 3 years ago
Thanks...your answer was better than that trouble-making prick that gave me that BS comment, lol
CesMan83 3 years ago
I think he's a very good actor. I just recently knew him from the Wrestler. Long Live Mickey Rourke!
eraserheads78 3 years ago 3
Absolutely, bro...I also recommend "Angel Heart", which I think was his last great film prior to "The Wrestler" (a difference of 21 years...damn!)..check that one out when you have the time
CesMan83 3 years ago
CesMan: Year of the Dragon is absolutely worth a rent along with his other earlier films Pope of Greenwich Village, Diner, and Johhny Handsome.
canadacup 3 years ago 2
Canadacup: sweet! Consider it rented! Thanks
CesMan83 3 years ago
When I was bartending in LA many moons ago I met Stanley white and he was saying how good Micky Rourke was, playing him.Great movie.
indianbikeman 3 years ago
Thank you for this trailer because it's not even in the Uk Dvd.One of my favourite films of Mickey Rourke's one of the greatest actors in the planet and his performance as Stanley White in this film was simply outstanding.
Rukia212002 3 years ago 2
right on the nose. I can't stand the fact that now everyone understands it cause of the wrestler, he was always a great. A few crummy films but none the less a real actor....
mozzyboy01 3 years ago
Great movie and amazing performance by Mickey Rourke. Marlon Brando a well-known anti-racist, loved this movie back in the day. The all racist shit by critics is crap.
nunotraumas 3 years ago 2
..was calling the triads "a thousand year old big fuck - up"..which makes him right, not racist!! I was so angry that time, cause the day I watched the movie in cinema I went home and turned the TV on!! There I heard the critics talk about M. Rourke playing a "racist hero"!!
ShadowCompany01 3 years ago 4
Sometimes I think Mickey Rourke never really had the chance to become a Top Star, cause whenever he performed in a movie the audience found something to rate it bad!! It was that way with "Angel heart", one of the best thrillers I know, where people took offence at the sex scene..suddenly it was pornography!! Year of the dragon now is one of the best (and most critical) cop thrillers ever made - and people called Stanley White a racist!! The only "racist" thing he did..
ShadowCompany01 3 years ago 7
It was more Michael Cimino who was under attack. The same happened with "The Deer Hunter" and "Heaven´s Gate" because American audience is ignorant. As for Stanley White, he didn´t like Asians at all but he was far from racist. The media needs controversy to have work. Cimino always tried to show America the way it is and suffered the consequences.
Neidhardt84 3 years ago 4
the coolest man to walk the face of the earth
HornyLee19 3 years ago 5
One of the best films of the 1980s.
Chaz71 3 years ago 5
Agreed
NoBlowBama 3 years ago 4