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05/20/08
Green Dragon (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 18 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis: GREEN DRAGON takes place during the close of the Vietnam War, at Camp Pendleton, a US military base in California that was a temporary home to thousands of South Vietnamese refugees. Patrick Swayze plays the concerned commander who befriends English-speaking refugee Tai Tran (Don Duong)... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Don Duong, Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker, Kieu Chinh, Hiep Thi Le
Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Screenwriter: Timothy Linh Bui, Tony Bui
Producer: Tony Bui, Tajamika Paxton, Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens
Composer: Michael Danna, Jeff Danna
Screenwriter: Timothy Linh Bui, Tony Bui
Producer: Tony Bui, Tajamika Paxton, Elie Samaha, Andrew Stevens
Composer: Michael Danna, Jeff Danna
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Top Critic
Revisiting the painful aftermath of Vietnam from the perspective of American-bound refugees, Timothy's film is an honorable if not great companion piece to his brother Tony's Three Seasons; both films played at the Sundance Festival dramatic competition
12/26/06
I've yet to find an actual Vietnam War combat movie actually produced by either the North or South Vietnamese, but at least now we've got something pretty damn close.
12/08/02
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08/09/02
The film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place.
08/02/02
Earnest, unsubtle and Hollywood-predictable, Green Dragon is still a deeply moving effort to put a human face on the travail of thousands of Vietnamese.
07/25/02
An inspiring and heart-affecting film about the desperate attempts of Vietnamese refugees living in U.S. relocation camps to keep their hopes alive in 1975.
07/20/02
Just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety, it dives into soapy bathos.
07/19/02
Plays as hollow catharsis, with lots of tears but very little in the way of insights.
07/19/02
A lyrical, bittersweet film about what could be termed a by-product of battle.
07/19/02
Drives for the same kind of bittersweet, conciliatory tone that Three Seasons achieved but loses its way in rhetorical excess and blatant sentimentality.
07/18/02
Top Critic
The images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos, particularly where Whitaker's misfit artist is concerned.
07/16/02
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