I kind of liked the movie kind of not, and it's right in the middle for me. I really love Mickey Rourke and thought he also gave a really good performance here.
The crime story was overall solid I guess, it's just one thing that kept getting in the way of it, was all the Chinese vs. America themes in the movie. It's as if both groups hate each other, and I never knew where this us vs. them thing came from, yet the movie keeps hammering it home. Even when the main character wants to hook up with his love interest, he feels he has to make it about race and bring it up still.
So the movie I think might have been too preachy in it's themes, but the over crime story was solid, and could have done without the preachy themes, and just been a straight up crime story, nothing more.
But what do you think?
The crime story was overall solid I guess, it's just one thing that kept getting in the way of it, was all the Chinese vs. America themes in the movie. It's as if both groups hate each other, and I never knew where this us vs. them thing came from, yet the movie keeps hammering it home. Even when the main character wants to hook up with his love interest, he feels he has to make it about race and bring it up still.
So the movie I think might have been too preachy in it's themes, but the over crime story was solid, and could have done without the preachy themes, and just been a straight up crime story, nothing more.
But what do you think?