Kiss of the Dragon A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 1:40 Long A Review by The Dude on the Right

In "Kiss of the Dragon" Liu is sent from China to help arrest a Chinese drug dealer. He meets up with the head police dude, Richard (Tcheky Karyo), who is actually the bad guy, and Liu gets set up for the murder of the drug dude. Now Liu is on the run, clutching the videotape evidence showing he didn’t commit the murder, and rather than just head for the Chinese embassy, he waits for a call from his superiors as to what to do next. The problem is that Richard is following the Chinese dudes, tapping their phone calls, and ends up getting the tape back. Yes, you guessed it, rather than destroying the tape Richard holds onto it.

So how does Bridget Fonda fit in? Well, she plays Jessica who is being blackmailed into prostitution by Richard so she can get her daughter back. Jessica witnessed the murder and yet Richard doesn’t kill her. Low and behold her "corner" is right in front of the shop where Liu is hiding out, he lets her go pee, she stitches up his wound, and their relationship develops. Eventually Liu and Jessica figure out who each other is and how they fit into the murder of the drug dealer dude, and Liu promises he would get Jessica’s daughter back if she tells what she knows about the murder. Blah, blah, blah.

In the end do you really care what the story is? Nah. All you care about is if Jet Li kicks some ass and maybe, as a bonus, Bridget might show some skin. You get some nice bra action from Bridget, but the movie is full of Jet Li kicking ass, kicking so much ass too the point it is just funny. You get guys dropped on their heads getting their necks broken, you get creative uses of laundry equipment, you get Li kicking a billiard ball across a room to take out the dude with a gun, you get Li using acupuncture needles which he carries on his wristband (one used in the spot called the kiss of the dragon, hence the title of the movie, which delivers quite a gruesome death as your face basically begins to bleed from every orifice), and you get a generic action movie with cool fight scenes.

Acting-wise you won’t be impressed. There are times Fonda is great in her role as the strung-out prostitute, but then she is given stupid lines, just seems too dumb, or, well, just doesn’t fit in with the story. Li kicks some major ass but, as is the case a lot of times, his lines are just added as filler between fight scenes.

"Kiss of the Dragon" is one of those movies that really has no way to click nicely into a decent action movie filled with intrigue. You get the dumb police dude who doesn’t destroy the evidence once he gets it, you get the generic good guy falling for the girl, you get so much gunfire that it’s unbelievable the good guy doesn’t get killed, and you get a movie that is totally predictable. You also get scenes so unbelievable that they are just funny. "Kiss of the Dragon" almost could have been better if they turned it into a spoof, kinda like "Naked Gun," because I really laughed more than I was engrossed in the plot. As a serious action flick, well, I give "Kiss of the Dragon" 1 ½ stars. But, because of the good time I had as things were just so over the top, well, I’ll add a star. That leaves "Kiss of the Dragon" with 2 ½ stars. Don’t expect a great film, just laugh at the things that our totally out of the realm of reality.

That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!