Not exact matches
Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, when they are
chased by the feds... and increasingly dangerous, when Charlie's former pals, a band of
gangsters, enter the fray.
Directed
by the insanely prolific Hong Kong action veteran Wong Jing,
Chasing the Dragon (China, 2017) is the filmmaker's crime epic, a historical drama that charts the rise and fall of two notorious
gangsters who thrived in the rampant corruption enabled
by Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong in the 1960s.
Foreign Affairs: the crime epic
Chasing the Dragon (China, 2017, not rated, with subtitles) charts the rise and fall of two notorious
gangsters (played
by Chinese superstars Donnie Yen and Andy Lau) who thrived in the rampant corruption of Britain's colonial rule of Hong Kong in the 1960s.
A contemporary western, Broken Horses — written and directed
by Vidhu Vinod Chopra — stars Anton Yelchin and Chris Marquette as a pair of brothers — one enslaved in a life of crime, the other a violin prodigy
chasing his dream to become part of the New York Philharmonic — who are reunited in their home town as they try to escape the clutches of a local
gangster.
I liked Drive, a vigorous 2011 take on Hollywood car -
chase movies with noirish undertones starring Ryan Gosling, but its 2013 successor, Only God Forgives, a muddled romp (also starring Gosling) about a mama's boy adrift in the Bangkok underworld at the mercy of a
gangster who performed musical numbers between bloodbaths, was parboiled
by critics and avoided
by audiences like an airborne virus.
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