Mr. Director and Tummy Cramps Week 1 Challenge - Movie Review (Chasing The Dragon)

howtostartablog (65)in #moviereview • 7 years ago (edited)

Hey guys, this is my first entry for a new contest called the "Mr. Director and Tummy Cramps" challenge.

Original contest: https://steemit.com/funny/@perennial/mr-director-and-tummy-cramps-week-1-challenge

It will be a rather short review and I'll be reviewing the movie "Chasing The Dragon". I watched it at GSC Melaka a couple of days ago.

Story

There may be some spoilers.

This movie was actually based on a real life gangster Ng Sek-Ho (Crippled Ho) and the story was set in Hong Kong, during the British colonisation. What tempted me to watch the movie was obviously Donnie Yen, acting as Crippled Ho, and Andy Lau as a corrupt police officer (Lee Rock).

If I can summarize the whole movie, it's basically on how Crippled Ho (who wasn't crippled at first) entered the drug trafficking trade together with his close buddies thanks to his friendship with Lee Rock, and how it all panned out.

I did say the review is going to be short right?

Reasons you should watch the movie

Donnie Yen spoke Hokkien with his buddies. What? First time listening to Hokkien from him and it was amusing!
Politics among drug traffickers. It's was interesting to see how they played each other out and eliminated them out of the "game". I think this was what the movie was mainly about, but it wasn't boring despite the long screen time.
To see how Hong Kong used to be (at least as depicted in the movie). So much drugs, corruption, prostitution and violence.
Bromance between Crippled Ho and his buddies (including Lee Rock).