Movies 2008 #4 Century of the Dragon

Century of the Dragon Wong Jing’s career encompasses the entirety of cinematic experience and I love the guy for it. He’s been at this for decades now and over his years he’s produced great films, sleazy films and plainly bad films in every conceivable genre and style (oftentimes in multiple genres at once.)

Unfortunately, this film, which he only produced, falls smack dab in the middle of that range- it’s so-so quality wise, it isn’t nearly as sleazy or exploitative as it could have been and it’s only mindless action packed for short bursts. Maybe if he’d done the full auteur treatment on this one it would have hit a few more high notes.

As it is, it was a fine way to spend a couple of hours. Why? I pretty much never get tired of triad dramas, even half-assed ones.