For Hong Kong superstar Jet Li -- eager to make an even bigger splash in America after last year's ''Romeo Must Die'' -- Hollywood moves too slowly. ''In the Hong Kong film industry,'' he explains, ''it's like a small family. They decide what to do and do it right away. In the States? It takes two years, because your family is so big!'' Li's solution: Go to France and produce your own $25 million star vehicle with filmmaker Luc Besson (''The Fifth Element'').
Li plays a Chinese agent embroiled in a Parisian conspiracy -- like you care about plot. The actor used his website to poll fans on the action they wanted to see, and the survey said: the street fighting of his 1994 favorite ''Fist of Legend.'' Although in one scene he battles 25 cops, Li says his biggest challenge was playing a mean machine who's really an average Joe. ''Like me,'' Li insists. ''If some guys come up to me with a gun, even I give up. Because what's the point?''
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