Tonight on Amazon: One of the best films of the 80s and Mickey Rourke’s greatest role, certified by Tarantino

Captain Stanley White, a strong-willed Vietnam veteran, is one of New York’s most respected and honored police officers. He is transferred to the Chinatown area after the murder of a representative of the Chinese community. White is convinced of the existence of the mafia, which manages neighborhood order and facilitates the drug trade.

He begins a veritable crusade against these so-called triad leaders who have eaten themselves from within. Despite warnings from his superiors and threats from the Chinese public, Stanley White embarks on this battle against all odds…

One of five 80s thrillers saved by Tarantino

After winning five major Oscars in 1979, including Best Director for Journey to the End of Hell, arguably one of the greatest films in American cinema history, Michael Cimino was the American director most coveted by Hollywood.

However, barely two years later, he was the most hated, after the dismal failure of Heaven’s Gate, which nearly bankrupted United Artists. However, the filmmaker was able to bounce back, albeit briefly, with 1985’s extraordinary thriller: Year of the Dragon. One of Tarantino’s 5 (not one!) American thrillers from the 80s, a decade he considers too mediocre for the genre.

Based on a screenplay that Cimino wrote with Oliver Stone, based on Robert Dale’s novel, the film offers Mickey Rourke the biggest role of his career as Captain Stanley White, an obsessive and racist ex-Vietnam veteran. A particularly hard worker, he is willing to sacrifice everything in his personal crusade against Joy Tai.

In front of him was the equally fabulous John Lown, who would reach the peak of his career barely two years later in one of the great masterpieces of cinema: The Last Emperor. wonderfully staged, violent, Year of the Dragon It’s a very good movie. To watch or re-watch on Prime Video.