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  1. VY
    May 5, 2005
    8
    Subtly is the key! Instead of beating us over the head with details enough is said to trigger the imagination and emotion in this lovely story about a period history that is often glossed over. A great way trigger discussion and empathy.
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  2. CrisW.
    Apr 3, 2004
    1
    I kept asking myself while watching this movie, "Why am I watching this?" At the end, I still couldn't answer this question. I felt like I was visiting someone else's dream. The movie was like a dream in that it jumped all over the place... many different songs being sung at the same time, but never in harmony. As a major film release, this movie fails. As a living room story sharing session, it survives; only because then you would have the story teller telling you what this movie does not. … Expand
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  3. ChadS.
    Jul 16, 2002
    5
    Perhaps something is lost in the translation because the subtitled dialogue is perfunctory and cliched. This artifice prevents us from feeling the daunting challenges these Vietnamese refugees must've faced. Our sympathy is inherent before the lights go down. The anguish of being uprooted goes largely uncaptured. "Green Dragon" disappoints because the likelihood of this story being mounted for the big screen again is highly unlikely. An adequate document would've been welcome.… Expand
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Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    60
    An ultimately moving drama about a displaced people. But its emotional kick is muffled by long-windedness, sentimental overkill and an overpopulated character gallery.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A gracious, eloquent film that by its end offers a ray of hope to the refugees able to look ahead and resist living in a past forever lost.
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