Kiss Of The Dragon
Liu Jian, a Chinese intelligence officer in Paris on an assignment that finds him in the midst of an international conspiracy. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian then enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.
14 May 1941, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
1967, Paris, France
21 October 1966, Saint Brieuc, Côtes-du-Nord, France
1 April 1974
1960
February1967, England, UK
June1944, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
April 29, 2009
A return to form for Li who dropped all the hip hop crap and was allowed to put his raw skills on display...February 10, 2009
The formulaic story cannot weigh down the high-flying, visceral excitement that the film offers in generous doses.January 15, 2005
We are coaxed to rejoice in the name of vengeance.December 24, 2010
Jet Li film is not for kids.July 06, 2001
Kiss of the Dragon offers just about a kill a minute, but less than a thrill a minute.April 10, 2011
A disappointing follow-up to Jet Li's Romeo Must Die.July 06, 2001
Kiss of the Dragon does have a sense of its own absurdity, but that doesn't prevent it from cloaking the inherently comic kung-fu genre in a seriousness so solemn that it could be French.July 06, 2001
Li jumps into a series of martial arts sequences of flying fists and balletic moves that truly reinvigorate a genre that has gone stale even in Asia.September 19, 2010
Jet Li's true masterpiece of the 2000s is a blitzkrieg of crazy, hard-R martial arts. Forget the need to always know who's beating whom or why in a narrative that's basically negligible. "Dragon's" gritty, giddy grindhouse thrills trump logic.July 06, 2001
The characters in Kiss of the Dragon are more cardboard than usual for an action movie.July 06, 2001
Practical, resourceful and unfussy. That's Jet Li, the Martha Stewart of martial arts mayhem.July 09, 2001
Whack! Thworp! Crack! Sometimes, it's fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of bad guys getting their heads beaten in.