Kiss of the Dragon
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Short description
Liu Jian, a Chinese intelligence officer, travels to Paris to assist French police in arresting a wanted Chinese criminal figure. The operation goes wrong when his French counterpart turns on him. Framed for a murder he did not commit and hunted through a city he does not know, Liu is forced into hiding and seeks help from Jessica, an American woman caught up in the same criminal circle. Together they work against a corrupt official whose reach extends through drug trafficking, prostitution and the police itself.
Kiss of the Dragon is a 2001 action crime thriller, released on July 6, 2001, and running 98 minutes. It was directed by Chris Nahon, the first of four features he has made to date, and written and produced by Luc Besson with Robert Mark Kamen. Jet Li leads as Liu Jian, with Bridget Fonda as Jessica, Tchéky Karyo as Richard, Ric Young, Burt Kwouk and Laurence Ashley among a credited cast of 57. The film was produced by 20th Century Fox, Canal+, Current Entertainment and EuropaCorp on a budget of 25 million dollars, and it took 64 million dollars worldwide.
Audience responses are moderate and similar across platforms, with 6.6 out of 10 on IMDb from around 70,000 votes and 6.9 out of 10 on TMDB from far fewer votes. A film critics' rating of 5.8 out of 10 from 106 reviews places critical opinion somewhat below the general audience view.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Chris Nahon had to slow down the fight scene between Jet Li and Cyril Raffaelli because the actors were moving too quickly.
- The tunnel where Jet Li's character is overtaken by the French police is the same one in which Princess Diana (1961-1997) died.
- Computer technology was used only twice in the film: in the scene where Jet Li's character falls down a laundry chute surrounded by flames, and in the scene where he kicks a billiard ball.
- The fight scenes in the film had to be “adjusted” to suit the tastes of audiences who had offered much criticism of Jet Li after the release of Andrzej Bartkowiak’s action film “Romeo Must Die” (2000) in the US. Fans of the actor wanted to see more realistic fights, something like what they liked so much in “Fist of Legend” (Gordon Chan, 1994).
- In one scene, Jet Li’s character attacks the pimp Lupo, played by Max Ryan. It was assumed that the dialogue between the actors would be filmed separately, and the fight separately, but after the exchange of lines, the director, for some reason, didn’t say “Cut,” and Li delivered a punch. That take made it into the final version of the film, along with Ryan’s completely genuine surprise.
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