2001 · action · crime · martial-arts
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Directed by Chris Nahon1h 38m2001
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Our read: Kiss of the Dragon (2001) (2001) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · martial-arts entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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