Kiss of the Dragon Reviews

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Almar Haflidason
BBC.com
August 12, 2002
Original Score: 4/5
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Neil Smith
BBC.com
September 24, 2001
A supremely satisfying blend of Hong Kong mayhem and Gallic flair that can only bolster Li's escalating reputation.
Original Score: 4/5
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James Berardinelli
ReelViews
July 9, 2001
Whack! Thworp! Crack! Sometimes, it's fun to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of bad guys getting their heads beaten in.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
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Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
July 6, 2001
Li jumps into a series of martial arts sequences of flying fists and balletic moves that truly reinvigorate a genre that has gone stale even in Asia.
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Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
July 6, 2001
The characters in Kiss of the Dragon are more cardboard than usual for an action movie.
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Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
July 6, 2001
Kiss of the Dragon offers just about a kill a minute, but less than a thrill a minute.
Original Score: 2/5
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
April 10, 2011
A disappointing follow-up to Jet Li's Romeo Must Die.
Original Score: C
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
December 24, 2010
Jet Li film is not for kids.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Nick Rogers
The Film Yap
September 19, 2010
Jet Li's true masterpiece of the 2000s is a blitzkrieg of crazy, hard-R martial arts. Forget the need to always know who's beating whom or why in a narrative that's basically negligible. "Dragon's" gritty, giddy grindhouse thrills trump logic.
Original Score: 3.5/4
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
A return to form for Li who dropped all the hip hop crap and was allowed to put his raw skills on display...
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
February 10, 2009
The formulaic story cannot weigh down the high-flying, visceral excitement that the film offers in generous doses.
Original Score: 3/4
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
August 7, 2008
Original Score: 3/5
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press
August 20, 2007
Kiss Of The Dragon, like its title, combines the seductive and ferocious. Not to mention playing out like a chiropractor's wet dream
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
July 14, 2007
Original Score: 1/4
James Plath
Movie Metropolis
April 15, 2007
Li is fun to watch, but the plot is familiar, the characters are static, and motivation . . . what's that?
Original Score: 6/10

Film Threat
December 6, 2005
Original Score: 4/5
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
January 15, 2005
We are coaxed to rejoice in the name of vengeance.
Original Score: D
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
August 1, 2003
Li has smartly decided to eschew the all-too-fashionable use of wires for the fight scenes in favor of old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat.
Original Score: 3/4
Alan Sissenwein
Palo Alto Weekly
May 20, 2003
Original Score: 2.5/4
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com
March 20, 2003
Poor Jet Li . . . he doesn't have the comedic timing of Jackie Chan, the looks or charm of Chow Yun Fat, and he certainly isn't the second coming of Bruce Lee.
Original Score: 2/5
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