Captain Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is a good cop...too good for his own good . His superiors and colleagues (Eddie Jones, Raymond J. Barry) hate him for not playing the NYPD game according to their rules. The underworld of his Chinatown precinct hates him for disturbing their cozy arrangement with the authorities. The men under White hate him for tightening the screws of the law in NYC's most exotic and explosive ghetto. White is all by himself when he goes after the untouchable kingpin of the Chinese Mafia (Victor Wong , John Lone) , in a one-on-one war that moves from the streets of Hong Kong to the jungles of Thailand to the gambling dens of Little China...with White's career and a quarter-billion dollars' worth of heroin at stake . It isn't the Bronx or Brooklyn. It isn't even New York. It's Chinatown...and it's about to explode.
Action-packed movie with brilliant photography , well-done action scenes with maximum violence and entertainment enough. Cimino's heroes have always been insufferably self-righteous and captain Stanley is no exception , as he conducts a clean-up campaign on N. Y. Chinatown which amounts to declared warfare . Here there's a racist hero you don't want to root for , a murky storyline with a headstrong cop unmercilessly battling the Tongs , and a semi-efective filming , all of them are the highlights of this tour through the black market's underbelly hierarchy . His feud is conducted with extreme violence , savage relentlessness and disregard for official procedural , in fact our starring finds himself fighting his own police force , his wife : Caroline Kava , his girlfriend : Ariane , as much as the local Triads led by Victor Wong and John Lone . Once again Cimino's ability to handle furious action set pieces is well paced such as a crossfire in a Chinese restaurant and a battle with two pistol-packing Chinese punkettes put him in the Peckinpah class .The connecting material ; however, resulting to be disjoined , muddled , boring and crass , amounting mostly to Stanley's interminable shots and a deep self-justification. The cast is acceptable with great main and support actors . Mickey Rourke provides overacting as Polish police captain Stanley White of the NYPD who vows to neautralize the crime lords running New York's Chinatown. Being finely accompanied by John Lone , Ariane, Victor Wong , Raymond J. Barry , Caroline Kava, Dennis Dun and Eddie Jones.
It contains colorful and adequate cinematography by Alex Thomson , though the exterior frames of New York City were actually sets built in North Carolina, that's why the settings proved realistic enough to fool audience . As well as thrilling and atmospheric musical score with Oriental sounds by composer David Arnold . The motion picture lavishly produced by Dino de Laurentiis was professionally written/directed by Michael Cimino. This filmmaker was a good craftsman who made few but very nice films with successes and flops, such as : Heaven's Gate , Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian , Desperate Hours , The Sunchaser and , of course , his biggest hit : The Deer Hunter . Rating : 6/10 . The flick will appeal to Mickey Rourke fans and Michael Cimino followers.
Action-packed movie with brilliant photography , well-done action scenes with maximum violence and entertainment enough. Cimino's heroes have always been insufferably self-righteous and captain Stanley is no exception , as he conducts a clean-up campaign on N. Y. Chinatown which amounts to declared warfare . Here there's a racist hero you don't want to root for , a murky storyline with a headstrong cop unmercilessly battling the Tongs , and a semi-efective filming , all of them are the highlights of this tour through the black market's underbelly hierarchy . His feud is conducted with extreme violence , savage relentlessness and disregard for official procedural , in fact our starring finds himself fighting his own police force , his wife : Caroline Kava , his girlfriend : Ariane , as much as the local Triads led by Victor Wong and John Lone . Once again Cimino's ability to handle furious action set pieces is well paced such as a crossfire in a Chinese restaurant and a battle with two pistol-packing Chinese punkettes put him in the Peckinpah class .The connecting material ; however, resulting to be disjoined , muddled , boring and crass , amounting mostly to Stanley's interminable shots and a deep self-justification. The cast is acceptable with great main and support actors . Mickey Rourke provides overacting as Polish police captain Stanley White of the NYPD who vows to neautralize the crime lords running New York's Chinatown. Being finely accompanied by John Lone , Ariane, Victor Wong , Raymond J. Barry , Caroline Kava, Dennis Dun and Eddie Jones.
It contains colorful and adequate cinematography by Alex Thomson , though the exterior frames of New York City were actually sets built in North Carolina, that's why the settings proved realistic enough to fool audience . As well as thrilling and atmospheric musical score with Oriental sounds by composer David Arnold . The motion picture lavishly produced by Dino de Laurentiis was professionally written/directed by Michael Cimino. This filmmaker was a good craftsman who made few but very nice films with successes and flops, such as : Heaven's Gate , Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian , Desperate Hours , The Sunchaser and , of course , his biggest hit : The Deer Hunter . Rating : 6/10 . The flick will appeal to Mickey Rourke fans and Michael Cimino followers.