Today’s Movie: Kiss of the Dragon

Jet Li plays a Chinese cop assigned to Paris as liasion on a drug investigation but is set up to be the patsy by the French flic with whom Li has been sent to work in the thriller Kiss of the Dragon. Although I’d initially been put off by a nasty review in the San Jose Mercury News, we headed to the movies on a whim and decided to see if anyway. Glad we did, despite the bad press, because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Luc Besson, who wrote and produced this, also made the excellent films La Femme Nikita and The Professional.