"Movie Review: Kiss of the Dragon": 07/08/2001

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07/08/2001 Entry: "Movie Review: Kiss of the Dragon"

I wasn't expecting much from the plot, and when I saw it was based on a story by Jet Li, I figured I would be right. And then I saw the screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson, who wrote and directed one of my favorite movies ever - The Professional. What did that mean? Turns out, it meant nothing. The plot was silly, the dialogue was terrible - but the action scenes were mostly neat. What was strange was seeing the police kill so many innocent people without any apparent repercussions, and then the final few fight scenes ended in Jet Li killing the bad guys in particularly gruesome ways. It was disturbing. Unlike Romeo Must Die, this movie did not leave me feeling energetic and looking for action. It left me feeling disturbed. Do I see too much fictional violence in my life? How has a lifetime of watching action movies affected me? Strange. Not sure why this movie triggered such a reaction.