Twentieth Century Fox presents a film directed by Chris Nahon. Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (for strong violence, language, some sexuality and drug content).
Judging by the reviews, Kiss of the Dragon, starring Jet Li could give a boost to gun-control advocates. After all, if everyone were able to dispatch seemingly scores of well-armed baddies with a few kung-fu kicks and chops, as Li does in the movie, who needs guns? Stephen Hunter writes in the Washington Post: Kiss of the Dragon offers just about a kill a minute, but less than a thrill a minute. Despite its hero's athleticism (considerable) and speed (blinding), the movie isn't near special. It's just the usual martial-arts stuff, an incomprehensible plot ... and lots of whacks, thwacks and smacks. Many critics, however, find the action sequences engaging. However, as Tom Maurstad writes in the Dallas Morning News, Whenever fists aren't flying and bullets aren't ricocheting, Kiss of the Dragon is a muddled mess. Like most other martial arts movies, Jay Carr writes in the Boston Globe, Kiss of the Dragon amounts to a string of great fight sequences, with a lot of draggy stuff between. But Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times indicates that he was prepared to overlook the slow parts. The plot, he writes, admittedly gets murky when it comes to motivation and logic, but never mind: In a movie where the physical actions border on the impossible, why expect the story to be reasonable? In fact, says Lou Lumenick in the New York Post, the story amounts to mindless idiocy.
Jet Li is awesome, cool, composed, confident, precise, fast martial artist rescuing a kidnapped little girl from the mobster against all odds. I say the word "cooL" is the best word of all of them to describe Jet Li...a MUST WATCH...if you like to watch martial artist movies.