Kiss of the Dragon (DVD) Reviews

A Chinese intelligence officer, Liu Jian, is sent to France to work with the French police on a case. However, on arrival, he is betrayed by Inspector Richard, the man in charge of the case, who frames him for a series of murders. Trying to avoid being caught and charged, Liu Jian becomes involved with Jessica, a prostitute, who just happens to ...  Read the complete review

Jet Li stars in this film, playing cop Liu Jiuan who has come to Paris to assist in a major drugs operation. Here he meets Richard (Tchéky Karyo) who turns out to be a corrupt Inspector. He frames Liu for the murder of a Chinese gangster and a prostitute. Fortunately it is not known where he is staying until he comes to the aid of prostitute ...  Read the complete review

Time for another Jet Li review. The Kiss of the Dragon, in my opinion, is one of Jet Li's best western films. The main reason for this is that its narrative is strong when compared to other fairly sorry attempts such as 'The One'. In fact, even as an action film, the plot is high above many others in the genre. It revolves around the ...  Read the complete review

We were bored on Saturday night and so decided to order Kiss of the Dragon from Sky box office. It wasn?t my number one choice but my brother was adamant that this should be the film we should order and since he was paying why not?.. Anyway Kiss of the Dragon is a martial arts film starring Jet Li. You may remember him from ...  Read the complete review

One of the best action dvds of last year! - Advantages: Excellent features, Wicked fight scenes, Overall excellent sound quality - Disadvantages: Dark coloured scenes are a tad murkey, but overall a good picture

~ ~ My local video shop (Xtravision) has a special offer on at the moment. Any two new releases (VHS or DVD) at only €8 for two night’s rental. Applies to games as well, but as I’m not much of a games fan these days, that’s not too much benefit to me. Anyhoo. It means that the old movies have been getting a right hammering ...  Read the complete review

Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Donnie Yen, Bruce Lee. All names instantly associated with asian cinema. Add to that list one Jet Li, a small perfectly formed man who just happens to be capable of kicking your ass very quickly and efficiently. Li decided to enter the american market with an appearance in Lethal Weapon 4, not the ...  Read the complete review

Jet Li once again puts his limited acting ability and awesome martial arts ability to use in another blockbuster movie. Li is a special chinese cop who is sent to paris to aid the French in the arrest of a chinese gangster. When it inevitably goes pear shaped, Li is left alone in the city and has to fight to clear his name and to get ...  Read the complete review

This is an action packed almost Bruce lee style thriller, with a centre on corruption at government level. Powerful barons, pimps and drugs set in the seedy underworld of Paris (which makes a change from the backdrop of America), make up a surprisingly complicated but realistic theme, even despite the showcase agent fighting sequences! It ...  Read the complete review

Few Hollywood action films seem complete without a scene in which some martial arts supremo leaps into the air, turns somersaults, kills forty seven people, mixes a Harvey Wallbanger and solves a particularly difficult Rubik’s Cube, all in mid-air, before finally landing on both feet, and then shooting someone. I blame ‘The ...  Read the complete review

After the lack of action movies at the box office I was looking forward to this action thriller by action legend Jet Li. I have seen many of his previous movies so I knew what to expect with his latest effort. Kiss of The Dragon is set in Paris and Jet Li plays Chinese cop, Liu Jian who has been assigned to look help French police with ...  Read the complete review

The skill with martial arts films is to make the action believable without sacrificing any of the fantasy. Kiss of the Dragon (15) opts to leave any realism behind and goes instead for a relentless series of action set pieces that involve its star, Jet Li, taking on just about every villain in Europe for no particular reason. In fact, reason has ...  Read the complete review

When a movie is somewhat lacking in plot I am usually the first to complain. Sometimes however, its good to just sit back and watch bad guys get the hell beaten out of them by a superhero action figure. Action for action's sake is not necessarily a bad thing, its just rather difficult to pull off effectively enough to please your audience who ...  Read the complete review

After being evoked as either a fairy-tale dreamland as in “Amelie” or as a sepia tinted memory as in “Moulin Rouge”, Paris gets done the dirties on by “Kiss of the Dragon”, which is, in a metaphorical sense, a turd floating down the Seine. This Paris is full of corrupt cops wandering the streets ...  Read the complete review