Kiss of the Dragon R
Kiss Fear Goodbye
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 5, 2015
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jet Li & Bridget Fonda | |
Performer: | Tchéky Karyo, Burt Kwouk & Max Ryan | |
Directed by | Chris Nahon | |
Edited by | Marco Cave | |
Screenwriting by | Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen | |
Composition by | Craig Armstrong | |
Produced by | Luc Besson, Steven Chasman & Happy Walters | |
Director of Photography: | Thierry Arbogast |
Entertainment Reviews:
...It's an assortment of kicks, somersaults and Dolby Digital bone-snaps...
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
A supremely satisfying blend of Hong Kong mayhem and Gallic flair that can only bolster Li's escalating reputation.
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BBC.com
Boldly kicking ass like no ass has been kicked before, KISS OF THE DRAGON is a slick, straight-ahead action-thriller...
Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
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.
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Washington Post
A return to form for Li who dropped all the hip hop crap and was allowed to put his raw skills on display...
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Cinema Crazed
...With KISS, the spotlight swivels to Jet Li, a fleet performer with a highly appealing demeanor of patient, quizzical intelligence...
Entertainment Weekly
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.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
The writers of THE FIFTH ELEMENT, Luc Besson (who also directed the Bruce Willis film) and Robert Mark Kamen, have teamed up again to deliver Jet Li in the action thriller KISS OF THE DRAGON. Li stars as Liu Jiuan, a Chinese agent so dedicated to his job that he has no friends, no family, no dreams. He is sent to Paris to help the French police capture a Chinese gangster, but France's top cop, Jeanne-Pierre Richard (Tcheky Karyo), has set Liu up to take the fall for a brutal killing he himself carried out. On the run in a strange city, Liu keeps a low profile until he unwillingly becomes friends with an American hooker, Jessica (Bridget Fonda)--who just happens to hold the key to his innocence. But Richard is always one step ahead of them--he has Jessica's daughter. Li and Fonda make a great team; their relationship is at the core of the film, as neither character has ever been able to put his complete trust in another person before. The action scenes, directed by Corey Yuen, are fast and furious and very violent, featuring mesmerizing moves by Li, especially one involving a billiard ball. Chris Nahon, in his directorial debut, makes excellent use of the location, including numerous shots of famous Parisian landmarks as the bad cops try to machine-gun down Liu in the streets and sewers and on the Seine.
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- UPC: 013132631509
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