Two immigrant brothers Sonny and Steven survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang 'The Green Dragons' when they were kids. The brothers worked their way up through the gang hierarchy and quickly rose up the ranks. But after an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.
21 July 1970, Gainesville, Florida, USA
20 April 1985
5 January 1967, Hong Kong
1964, USA
28 April 1982, Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
15 September 1981, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
6 April 1993, Dallas, Texas, USA
29 May 1981, Irvine, California, USA
March 27, 2016
Revenge boasts Martin Scorsese as an executive producer (and it really does boast - Scorsese's is the first name we see), but the cliché-ridden narrative and patchy acting prevent the film from being Chinatown's answer to Goodfellas.
October 28, 2014
This crudely made thriller plays like a stilted Cantonese riff on organized-crime cliches, substituting blood and brutality for novelty or insight.
October 23, 2014
This crime drama wants to be a Chinese-American "Goodfellas," but it ends up just looking bad.
December 23, 2014
The representation of Asian American men as hot-blooded toughies in the film does put a dent in the omnipresent nerdy eunuch stereotype and the model-minority myth.
October 23, 2014
What initially feels like brash energy peters out until what's left mainly evokes pretty ordinary gangster movies.
October 30, 2014
Violent, generic, not awful, but nothing more than that.
October 24, 2014
Vicious '80s gangs fight in graphically violent drama.
October 30, 2014
It doesn't bring anything new to the table. And its pacing, grim tone, and cheesy guitar riffs belong squarely in the '80s.
January 16, 2015
The self-inflating tale of two immigrant brothers, who join a Chinatown gang as kids, falls woefully short of significance, despite being executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
October 24, 2014
An ugly, dispiriting mess, full of clichés, bad taste and bombast.
October 28, 2014
There's a good story somewhere in "Revenge of the Green Dragons," but it's not the one Lau and his colleagues chose to retell.
October 23, 2014
[A] generic, nondescript gangster saga.
