Chasing the Dragon

Released Sep 29, 2017

2h 8m

Crime

Drama

Biography

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Illegal immigrant and drug kingpin Crippled Ho arrives in Hong Kong in 1963. He quickly and ruthlessly builds an underworld empire that's ruled by dealers and corrupt police.

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Clarence Tsui

Hollywood Reporter

A pale reboot of the mobster-biopic genre Wong helped make a cornerstone of Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s.

Sep 29, 2017

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Jamie Healy

Radio Times

A sketchy, time-skipping script, some lame dialogue and too many thinly drawn characters take off some of the shine, but this is still an enjoyably polished production.

Rated: 3/5

May 9, 2024

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James Mudge

easternKicks.com

Donnie Yen and Andy Lau are the draw, and are worth the price of admission, though it's hard not to feel let down by the refusal to paint the protagonists in shades of grey

Rated: 3/5

Oct 24, 2020

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Harris Dang

easternKicks.com

Chasing the Dragon is a bombastic failure as a throwback to 90's gangster films, as a Donnie Yen acting showcase and worse, as a Wong Jing exploitation film. The only thing the film ends up chasing down is its own tail.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 31, 2018

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Scott Clark

Starburst

The problem is that you've seen it all before. By the end, Chasing the Dragon feels like a stylish retread of Jing Wong's early hits, full of great performances from dependable talent, but missing the scuzzy edge that made his early films so strong.

Rated: 6/10

Feb 14, 2018

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Joanne Soh

The New Paper (Singapore)

Yen gives a fine performance of a man willing to do whatever it takes to survive.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 4, 2017

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Liam D

A different kind of Gangster movie with strong performances by Donnie Yen (The Lost Bladesman, Special ID) and Andy Lau (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Shaolin)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/15/22

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Gianni L

Inspired by a true story. 6 out of 5 stars!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/20/22

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I can't say that I enjoyed this movie very much, but I was very much absorbed by it. It's not like any other Donnie Yen movie I can recall seeing, and it's ESPECIALLY nothing like anything previously done by Wong Jing, whom usually makes (well made) low-brow silly or sleezy movies. This is completely humorless and quite brutal, and doesn't even really have much fun with itself -- it doesn't seem to be made to entertain, but rather to make you feel an intense emotion, and on this level the movie works great. This is perhaps its greatest weakness however - Sometimes movies can fuse an ultra-serious movie with entertainment without compromising the story being told (good example would be 'Black Hawk Down'), while this movie feels more just in the nihilistic and sour grouping alongside things like 'The Shinjuku Incident', having the raw intensity of the ultra-serious events be the sole focus. Personally I did like it more than 'The Shinjuku Incident' and I will probably revisit it from time to time, but it likely won't be in my BluRay player very often.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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camille l

Chasing the Dragon est une fresque policière hongkongaise très inspirée des films de gangsters américains des années 80. Ce mélange des genres en fait un film incontournable, réalisée par Wong Jing et Jason Kwan. Donnie Yen en baron de la drogue et Andy Lau en flic pourri sont absolument fantastiques et possèdent une alchimie incroyable, élevant alors ce film au rang de probable futur classique du cinéma HK. Extrêmement bien construit, oscillant parfois entre la comédie et le drame, Chasing the Dragon s'appuie sur un supporting cast très compétent et s'articule autour de quelques scènes charnières très réussie, comme le rise to power de Donnie Yen sous le son de Donny Hathaway. Le film de Jason Kwan et de Wong Jing est une très grande réussite.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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chris n

The pace is so frenetic at first it's hard to figure out who's who and juggle lightning fast subtitles at the same time, but after a bit it becomes a respectable and visually apt gangster flick.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Seems a remake of the old movie. Andy Lau is getting very familiar to act the 0.5B Detective.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Synopsis

Illegal immigrant and drug kingpin Crippled Ho arrives in Hong Kong in 1963. He quickly and ruthlessly builds an underworld empire that's ruled by dealers and corrupt police.

Director: Jing Wong, Jason Kwan
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Bona Film Group, Mega-Vision Pictures
Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 29, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 23, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $456.9K
Runtime: 2h 8m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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