Fresh
Whack! Thworp! Crack! Sometimes, it's fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of bad guys getting their heads beaten in.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Kiss of the Dragon
Kiss Fear Goodbye
2001 · 1h 38m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Chris Nahon
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Kiss of the Dragon
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Li jumps into a series of martial arts sequences of flying fists and balletic moves that truly reinvigorate a genre that has gone stale even in Asia.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
The characters in Kiss of the Dragon are more cardboard than usual for an action movie.
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Kiss of the Dragon offers just about a kill a minute, but less than a thrill a minute.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Rotten
Kiss of the Dragon does have a sense of its own absurdity, but that doesn't prevent it from cloaking the inherently comic kung-fu genre in a seriousness so solemn that it could be French.
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
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