Latin Dragon (2004)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

For a 2004 movie "Latin Dragon" sure had a lot of similarities to the action and martial arts movies from the mid-1990's. And you might think that it is a good thing, but it wasn't.A generic and stereotypical lone hero saves the day storyline didn't really make it into a particularly entertaining movie, nor did the flaccid acting put on throughout the course of the entire movie.Thumbs up for actually making a Latin martial arts movie, that is something that I have personally never seen before stumbling upon "Latin Dragon" in the local secondhand DVD store.With a cast that included Gary Busey, Lorenzo Lamas and for me an unknown guy named Fabian Carrillo, you pretty know what you are getting into. But I guess it is the morbid fascination with bad movies that still make us sit down to watch such movies.The action sequences and scenes were mediocre, so nothing to get your hopes up for here. My favorite scene would have to be where Carrillo slided down a wooden banister while standing up and shooting two guns, and in slow motion just as icing on the cake. That was so bad it actually hurt the eyes to witness. At least it was good for a solid laugh.Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad story, if these is your things, by all Means give "Latin Dragon" a go, otherwise stay well clear of this movie.

This was a fun action movie set featuring a primarily Hispanic cast set in L.A. The story is similar to Billy Jack, Walking Tall, and many other action movies, but with a Latino lead.The main character, Danny, was a special agent in the military who had to do a lot of horrible things, but honed his skills as a killing machine. He comes home to the neighborhood where he grew up to find that the local business are being terrorized by an organized crime outfit. He single-handedly must fight the gang until the climactic showdown where he confronts the top men.One twist is that Danny's brother is a crooked cop who is working for the gang. Gary Buesey gets to do his usual kooky stuff as the crime boss. Danny's love interest is the daughter of his mentor and the leader of the community group trying to stand up to the gang.The fight scenes were fun, although a bit amateurish. My biggest problem with the movie was the ending. After Danny had toppled the gang (if that ruins the surprise for you, this must be the first action movie you're watching), he leaves town without explanation. This is the second time he's disappeared and broken his girlfriend's heart. Maybe the filmmakers thought they had a franchise and wanted to leave room for a sequel, but I got the impression that he was no longer involved with the military and had no other commitments. So it just seemed kind of mean for him to take off without giving a reason. 5/10

"Latin Dragon" is an entertaining action film. The plot is: Danny Silva (Carrillo) is an undercover agent who has the battle the street gangs in his neighborhood. Gary Busey plays the street kingpin "Thorne". Lorenzo Lamas is his henchman "Frank".The drawback in this movie is that Carrillo looks like a Latino Ray Romano. So it's hilarious to see him do martial arts. Busey and Lamas sleepwalk through their roles.There's also some unnecessary "Matrix" style FX that come out of nowhere when bullets start flying. Overall, it's cheap and fun action... If you don't mind that.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

This movie sucked absolutely sucked. It came on TV and the only reason I watched it was because I was sick and couldn't really do much. The acting was bad all around. You'd expect more from someone like Gary Busey. The movie was low budget horribly acted and in fact made me sicker. I knew from the title Latin Dragon and the first I dunno 5 minutes that this was a stinker. I was really unimpressed by everything the plot was predictable and I've seen better fight scenes in a Steven Segal movie. You expect the good guy to roll up on a Harley Davidson but this guy nope he's on a toy bike a Kawasaki. To me that does not scream butt kicking' its more like i dunno guy who teaches Karate at the local YMCA and thats exactly what the fighting looked like. Like they payed a guy a hundred bucks to come on the set and teach these guys basic karate. They should've also hired an acting coach cause they couldn't get that right either. This movie was a real disappoint a couple of no body's Gary Busey and Lorenzo Lamas. Oh how the mighty have fallen (Gary Busey that is Lorenzo Lamas has always been a crap actor)!