Kiss of the Dragon is an action vehicle for Jet Li, a Chinese intelligence agent sent to Paris to help apprehend Chinese mob boss, Mr Big.
He meets Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard (Tchéky Karyo), a corrupt French police detective and tricks Liu into believing he is simply providing reconnaissance of a meet involving Mr Big when he is planning to use two prostitutes as a rouse to kill Mr Big and frame Li for it.
Li realises he has been set up.He escapes from the hotel with a surveillance tape showing Richard shooting Mr Big and tries to clear his name. Along the way he encounters an American prostitute little knowing that their paths have crossed before.
The story for this film was from Jet Li and it was produced by Luc Besson. It is primarily a martial arts action fight film for Li without much CGI or wire work and Li really delivers.
From Besson you get that what is now a trademark Besson style of an outsider entering France and getting involved in a mystery and action. Where bad guys need to be dispatched with assistance from usually a female. It is almost a prototype Taken film.
The best fight sequence is in the police training room when Li is taken aback to discover they are doing karate training.
However the film has too many lapses of logic. Karyo is a great bad guy but we see him shoot civilians out in the open, surely someone would twig he is corrupt.
We also have scenes of someone shooting at Li from a hotel lobby with two machine guns and again no one from the French Police raises questions.
Bridget Fonda looks miscast as the prostitute and it would had been better if her character was French.
He meets Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard (Tchéky Karyo), a corrupt French police detective and tricks Liu into believing he is simply providing reconnaissance of a meet involving Mr Big when he is planning to use two prostitutes as a rouse to kill Mr Big and frame Li for it.
Li realises he has been set up.He escapes from the hotel with a surveillance tape showing Richard shooting Mr Big and tries to clear his name. Along the way he encounters an American prostitute little knowing that their paths have crossed before.
The story for this film was from Jet Li and it was produced by Luc Besson. It is primarily a martial arts action fight film for Li without much CGI or wire work and Li really delivers.
From Besson you get that what is now a trademark Besson style of an outsider entering France and getting involved in a mystery and action. Where bad guys need to be dispatched with assistance from usually a female. It is almost a prototype Taken film.
The best fight sequence is in the police training room when Li is taken aback to discover they are doing karate training.
However the film has too many lapses of logic. Karyo is a great bad guy but we see him shoot civilians out in the open, surely someone would twig he is corrupt.
We also have scenes of someone shooting at Li from a hotel lobby with two machine guns and again no one from the French Police raises questions.
Bridget Fonda looks miscast as the prostitute and it would had been better if her character was French.