Kiss Of The Dragon
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Taglines:
- Kiss Fear Goodbye
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Synopsis
Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?
Review
Jet Li has been wasted in so much Hollywood pap! Lethal Weapon 4 (poor!), Romeo Must Die (Dire!). So with this one, he came up with the story himself.
Well, not much of a story....foreign cop finds himself accused of a crime....corrupt policemen....girl in trouble....yadda yadda! However...it is not important. The story is merely an excuse to show what Li can really do. The combat is fantastic, the action spot on, the acting....well...not bad to be honest.
Trivia
- The tunnel where Jet Li is ambushed by French policemen is the same tunnel at Pont d'Alma in Paris where Princess Diana died.
- The only scenes that used CGI are when Jet Li falls down the laundry drop with CG flames surrounding him and in the hotel scene when Jet Li kicks the ball from the pool table.
- The only scenes involving wire work were when Jet Li had to jump up to kick the pool ball and when Cyril Raffaelli (Twin 1) performs his one-and-a-quarter backwards somersault-kick.
- Director Chris Nahon had to slow down the fight scene between Jet Li and Cyril Raffaelli because they were moving too fast for the camera.
- In the scene were Jet Li attacks Max Ryan Lupo, they were supposed to film the dialog scene separately from the fight that follows. However, after the dialog, the director didn't say "cut", and so Jet attacked Max. The take is in the final film - along with Max Ryan's very realistic frightened expression.
- Cyril Raffaelli knows how to perform the one-and-a-quarter backwards somersault-kick he does in the final fight scene without the aid of wires. There were at least two takes without the wire, but supposedly Cyril was moving too fast for the camera. Wires were added in for "clarity".
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