Holy Fuck it's been over a month?!!!! Oh well here's a review

Okay so I haven't been updating my blog like I thought I would due to a lack of time(kidney stones, work, Bioshock, masturbating) but now I'm ready to dig in and go back to updating for anybody that cares. And the first thing I have up is a new review of a movie that I may only enjoy and that's the Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon

I saw this many years ago and I think I was hoping it would involve Mickey Rourke blasting up New York’s Chinatown with a wisecracking partner who was an expert with nunchucks. So when it wasn’t quite that sort of film I was bummed(Showdown in Little Tokyo is that kind of film though.) I felt it was time to give this one another look with a slightly more mature pair of eyes and I’m glad I did. What a great flick.Rourke is a force of nature in this film as a cop put in charge of maintaining order as violence escalates among Chinatown‘s criminal underworld. His actions and dialogue damn near make Michael Douglas in BLACK RAIN look civil by comparison. It’s a crazed performance that practically gives you an ulcer just by watching him.To counterbalance Rourke’s manic vibe, he’s given a nemesis in John Lone who’s as cool as they come. One of the true underrated cinematic gangsters. His final showdown with Rourke is a terrific sequence between 2 men who have been bullshitting each other for so long and now finally get to have it out.This is the first film Michael Cimino did after contributing to a studio’s demise(Which sucks because I really love Heaven's Gate.) You’d think that an experience like that would make him gun shy for his follow-up. Not so at all. He does not flinch when it comes to putting the audience right in the line of fire here. YEAR OF THE DRAGON is full of moments that jolt the hell out of you. I know he’s essentially a permanent resident of director jail but it might be time to get the guy a fucking parole hearing.

And that shootout at the club is one of my favorite action scenes ever.