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KISS OF THE DRAGON

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Release Date: Jul 06, 2001; Rated: R; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Bridget Fonda and Jet Li; Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

B-

By Dalton Ross

Dalton Ross

Dalton Ross is an editor-at-large at EW and swears there are better pictures of him out there...somewhere.

Even for a kick flick, the plot is laughably bad. Li (as some sort of acupuncture-happy secret agent) and Fonda (as a hooker with a heart of gold) must save his video cassette and her daughter. Whatever. You don't watch a movie like this for plot or to ask questions like, What is a kung fu academy doing in the middle of a French police station anyway? Li is a marvel, fighting with precision and intensity in a film that is otherwise far from marvelous.

Posted Jan 25, 2002

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