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Rating: 7 stars

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paris martial arts wrongly accused murder on the run prostitute French corrupt cop assassination hotel surveillance chinatown

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Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Directed by Chris Nahon

Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.

Rated R | Length 98 minutes

Actors

Jet Li | Bridget Fonda | Tchéky Karyo | Ric Young | Burt Kwouk | Laurence Ashley | Cyril Raffaelli | Didier Azoulay | John Forgeham | Paul Barrett | Max Ryan | Colin Prince | Vincent Glo | Vincent Wong | Kentaro | Stéphane Jacquot | Stefan Nelet | Peter Sakon Lee | Isabelle Duhauvelle | Yannick Derrien | Francesca Disca | Taïra | David Gabison | Bertrand Waintrop | Alain Zef | Nicolas Herault | Jean-Marc Huber | Franck Tiozzo | John Maczko | Claude Brécourt | Jean-Georges Vongerichten | François Nguyen | Jocelyne Isaac | Raymond Khamvene | Urfé Koupaki | Gregory Galin | Alexander Koumpan | Daniel Milgram | Bernard Flavien | Eric Averlant | Marc Ligaudan | Frédéric Moulin | Alain de Catuelan | Ludovic Berthillot | Guillaume Lamant-Deboudt | Lina Chen | Barbara Bernard | Pat Tourne | Crystalle Seeram | Karen Drotard | Sabine Ben Rhadi | Saadi Spera | Stéphanie Martin | Stéphanie Durand | Carmelle Edma | Schana Réaux | Affif Ben Badra

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Viewing Notes

Another long overdue revisit and part of my ongoing Jet Li project for 2022. Nearly everything with Jet is an 8 or 9 and the rest is a 5 so probably a soft 7 out of 10. The is 100 percent a must-watch for Jet Li and Corey Yuen fans (Corey does the action direction and should’ve just directed the entire movie). Some wonderful fight choreography and long shots. I would just watch a reel w/only those bc Jet is so great to see.

The story is a bit whatever and ridiculously OTT. Like yes it’s a movie world but w/o an ounce of believability. Like cops just kill innocent bystanders willy nilly no big deal. Somehow the entire Paris police force is corrupt and yet I still don’t know why they wanted the Chinese diplomat assassinated. Perhaps it’s explained somewhere but so mishy mash of story.

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