Year of the Dragon (1985)
Directed by Michael Cimino
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
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It’s particularly noticeable in writer-director Christian Gudegast’s feature, because the actor is playing a gangsta-style law enforcement anti-hero who gives Mickey Rourke in “Year of the Dragon” a run for the money for sheer repellence.
Not since screenwriter Oliver Stone and director Michael Cimino teamed for the 1985 police thriller Year of the Dragon has there been a more sensationalistic piece of high-glitz trash.
For starters, the film is flat-out racist in the way that it handles the Dry Eye character, both in general terms (such as the not-so-subtle suggestion that American and British drug lords are more dignified and classy than Asian) and in startlingly specific ones (with one character literally saying that Dry Eye has a “riscence to kill”), that makes one long for the comparative dignity to be found in “Year of the Dragon.”