Nonureva Really Surprised!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Nick Dees Sure it wasn't the greatest film of all time. But it sure as hell wasn't as bad as everybody says it is.I enjoyed it, with its twists and turns. A lot of well shot scenes. And come on its a gangster movie how could you go wrong.The ending was good and might have left you wanting a little more but overall I think it will make a good watch on a rainy night. Let me know what you think after watching it because I definitely recommend it. Especially since it is a Scorsese and has Ray Liota in it. The fact that it is based on a true story is a bonus.You have to keep in mind that this as a movie that you need to watch to appreciate. Don't let the reviews fool you, perhaps people see Martin Scorsese's name and have different expectations.

CJS I watched this with my wife who is from Hong Kong (while I am a whitey who grew up in Australia). This movie, while based on true events, has a very similar and predictable feel to many of the Hong Kong gang films in Cantonese that we've seen together. The main difference being, despite having dozens of Chinese actors, nearly all the dialog is in English and the film is set in New York. Anyway, my wife gave it 6/10 because she knew what was going to happen before it happened as she's watched more of these movies than me. I give it 7/10.However, while the film had this feeling of predictability for the most part, the ending has a plot twist that neither of us saw coming. There is strong violence in this movie and a torture scene that I found a bit disturbing, so stay clear if you don't like that sort of stuff.

LeonLouisRicci Generic, Cluttered, and Confusing, this Under Developed and Utterly Exploitive Examining tries to be too many things. But it is too Short and Unrealized and it Comes Off as Slick B-Movie Badness so often seen.It's a Mad World, the Setting that the Illegal Immigrants Find Themselves, where Human Trafficking, Torture, Guns, Drugs and Money are all in Plain Sight and Little is Offered to Them that is Not a Daily Drudge of Lost Hope and Dreams.This is a Story of Two Youngsters Flushed down the toilet of Humanity and End Up at the End of the Line that is Presented as a Way Out of Ordinariness. "A fisherman in China will always be a fisherman in China, but in America even a dishwasher has hope.".At the End of this over Indulgent of Everything in the Melting Pot is Familiar Stories since Forever, You will Find Nothing New or Nothing Worth Knowing that isn't already a Common Thread that is on going Weaving Fabric of America's Crazy Quilt to this Day. Not Much has Changed in well over a Hundred Years Except the Countries of Origin.

BasicLogic this film has made me wonder if the director from Hongkong is a real Chinese or worse yet, did this guy really know anything about the Chinese immigrants and those who came to America in the 1980s? the screenplay of this film is a absurd practical joke played on the Chinese immigrants, it's like George Bush Sr. amazed at the bar-code scanner when he found out at the first time, a device already existed and used in the supermarkets for years. i really don't know how this screenplay would have approved by the production company and its producers/investors of this film. the storyline was so outlandish and absurd that so many legal Chinese immigrant would rush into the customs like Irish refugees who came to America in the early 20th century. none of the Chinese characters appeared in this stupid film looked like legit typical Chinese, guys worked in the kitchen spoke Taiwanese intonation Chinese mandarin, bunch of elder Chinese young gang-bangers chasing two youngsters who escaped into the back kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, a woman gangster mamma-san enslaved all the newcomers. the screenplay was just so weird, so absurd and so formulaic out of touch. a messy patch-up work done by some moron who not only didn't know anything about the Chinese immigrants but also didn't know anything about the Chinese gangster tong culture and its history. the screenplay was like a homework by a high school American Chinese, his only knowledge of the Chinese was from some comic books, like FuManchu or Charlie Chen crap. there's nothing right and the cast so poorly assigned. some viewers still tried so hard to match this film with those often mentioned better films and certain master-level director, well, listen, okay, save it, dude, don't try to fool yourself. this is one of the worst films ever made since moving pictures were invented, period.