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Kiss of the Dragon

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France, United States · 2001
Rated R · 1h 38m
Director Chris Nahon
Starring Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Max Ryan
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

Liu Jiuan, China's top government agent, arrives in Paris from Shanghai to carry out a sensitive, top-secret mission. Liu is in Paris to assist Richard, an unorthodox police official with a small army to back him up. The mission goes horribly wrong as the man Liu had come to help betrays him.

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Washington Post by

Too bad the filmmakers -- and here's where the American part comes in -- decided the movie had to have some heart, too.

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New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

Will probably please hard-core action fans who have become inured to plot idiocies, but it remains a terrible waste of talent.

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Miami Herald by Charles Savage

The Hollywood action genre, sliding into a lazy dependence on computer-generated fakery, needs this authentic kick to the head delivered by Jet Li.

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New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

The action scenes, including one on that tourist sightseeing staple, the Bateau Mouche, were directed by Cory Yuen with some creative touches, including a hail of chopsticks during a fight in a restaurant kitchen.

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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

The non-fighting parts of Kiss of the Dragon are, despite the presence of co-star Bridget Fonda, completely non-compelling. It's a proud convention in films like this for fans to mark time during exposition, waiting patiently for the action to start up again, and Kiss is very much in that tradition.

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