Kiss of the Dragon

Kiss of the Dragon

-2001 martial arts action movie directed by Chris Nahon
-Stars Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Luc Besson, Tcheky Karyo
-Made as a request by fans for movies with more realistic fight scenes
-Based on a story by Jet Li

Did You Know?
-The tunnel where Jet Li is ambushed by the French police is the same tunnel where Princess Diana died
-The only CGI scenes in the movie are when Jet Li drops down the laundry chute with the CG flames around him and in the hotel when Jet Li kicks the pool ball
-For the fight between Jet Li and Cyril Raffaelli, the director of the movie, Chris Nahon, had to slow down the camera because they were moving too fast

Plot
-Liu Siu-jian(Jet Li) is a Chinese intelligence officer, sent from Beijing to Paris to investigate and help apprehend a Chinese mob boss named Mr. Big(Ric Young), who is involved in heroin smuggling. There he meets Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard(Tcheky Karyo), who is a corrupt and violent French police detective. Richard tracks Liu into thinking that he is simply providing recon of a meet involving Mr. Big. The plans change when he is introduced to 2 prostitutes, Jessica Kamen(Bridget Fonda), an American woman, who takes him to his room to service him. When Liu and everyone are watching from another room, Mr. Big kicks everyone out except the 2 women. While one is on top of Mr. Big, she attempts to kill him. Watching the events from another room, Liu rushes over to stop the prostitutes. Richard enters shortly, to shoot Mr. Big, and the prostitute with Liu's police issue gun, thus framing Liu

-Realizing he has been set up, Liu manages to escape from the hotel with a tape showing Richard killing the Chinese mob boss. Soon Chinese liaisons are sent from Beijing after the events to investigate the situation, after Richard makes Liu look like a cold blooded, psychopathic killer. The Chinese agents do not believe Richard. Liu manages to to contact one of the agents, in an attempt to pass on the tape, but due to French police surveillance, the meeting is ruined and Liu is spotted. The agent is murdered and Liu is forced to escape, thus losing the tape and is forced to keep a low profile

-As he considers the situation he's in, he meets the American woman Jessica, who he later finds out her daughter Isabel was kidnapped by Richard to keep her in prostitution. Liu finds out that Jessica was the 2nd prostitute there the night Mr. Big was killed. He realizes she can prove his innocence, but she refuses to do anything unless he gets her daughter back. He sends Jessica into Richard's office to steal the tape, so Liu and Jessica head to an orphanage where Isabel is. Richard thought ahead after he finds the tape missing, and ambushes the couple. Jessica is shot in the chest after their escape, and Liu manages to get her to the nearest hospital and he is now driven to find her daughter. Liu arrives at police HQ where Richard is holding Isabel, and he fights his way through the henchmen to his office. Once there, Liu rescues the little girl, getting shot by Richard during this. To save her, Liu kills Richard with a move called the "kiss of the dragon", by which he sticks an acupuncture needle into the back of Richard's neck in a forbidden location, which stimulates the blood to flow to the brain and cause a painful death via brain aneurysm. Liu survives the gunshot and returns the girl to her mother

Cast

• Jet Li as Liu Siu-jian
• Bridget Fonda as Jessica Kamen
• Tchéky Karyo as Jean-Pierre Richard
• Max Ryan as Lupo
• Ric Young as Mister Big
• Burt Kwouk as Uncle Tai
• Kentaro as Chen
• Laurence Ashley as Aja
• Cyril Raffaelli as Twin
• Didier Azoulay as Twin
• John Forgeham as Max
• Paul Barrett as Pilot
• Colin Prince as Lupo's Assistant
• Vincent Glo as Pluto
• Vincent Wong as Minister Tang

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The Forbidden Kingdom

The Forbidden Kingdom

-2008 Chinese-American martial arts movie.
-For the first time ever, brings together martial artist Jackie Chan and martial artist Jet Li

Plot
-South Boston teen Jason Tripitikas is a fan of the martial arts films and he awakens from a dream of a battle between the Monkey King and celestial soldiers in the clouds. When he visits a pawnshop in Chinatown to buy Wuxia DVDs and finds a golden staff. On his way home, Jason is harassed by some bullies who try to use him to help rob the pawn shop owner. The owner, Hop, tries to fight off the thieves and is shot. He tells Jason to deliver the staff to it's rightful owner and he flees with the staff. He is cornered on the roof and the bullies almost shoot him, but he is pulled off the roof by the staff and falls backwards onto the asphault.

-When he wakes up, he finds himself in a village in ancient China that is under attack from heavily armored soliders. They see his staff and try to get it. He is saved by a drunk traveling scholar named Lu Yan, a supposed "immortal" who remains alert even when drunk. Lu takes Jason to a teahouse and tells him the story of the rivalry between the Monkey King and the Jade Warlord. The Jade Warlord tricked the Monkey Kinf into setting aside his magic staff Ruyi Jingu Bang and transformed him into a stone statue, but he cast his staff away before the spell. Lu ends the story with a prophecy about someone, a "Seeker" who will find the staff and free the Monkey King. Just then, they are attacked by the Jade Warlord's men, but manage to escape with the help of Golden Sparrow, a young girl who refers to herself in 3rd person. She says her family was killed by the Jade Warlord.

-Elsewhere, The Jade Warlord, after learning of the sighting of the staff, sends the White-Haired Witch Ni-Chang to help him get it. Jason, Lu Yan and Golden Sparrow meet a strange man dressed in white, who takes the staff. Lu Yan fights with the man, who is later revealed to be the Silent Monk for the staff until they realize he is the prophesied Seeker. The 4 of them then travel to 5 Elements Mountain, Lu Yan and the Silent Monk teach Jason Kungfu along the way. After crossing a desert, they run into Ni-Chang and her soldiers after which a fight ensues, wounding Lu Yan with Ni-Chang's arrow. They take him to a monastery where Jason learns that Lu Yan is not immortal unless he drinks his wine. Only the Jade Warlord's elixir can save his life. So Jason goes for the elixir all by his self

-In the palace, the Jade Warlord asks Jason to fight with Ni-Chang to the death. He is defeated by Ni-Chang and the Warlord taunts him and is about to behead him when the other monks from the monastery show up. Jason manages to grab the elixir and gives it to Lu Yan, who recovers. The Silent Monk is wounded by the Jade Warlord's Guan Dao during the fight and passes the staff to Jason, who uses it to smash the statue containing the Monkey King. The Monkey King is freed and is actually revealed to be alos the Silent Monk. Lu Yan battles Ni-Chang and kills her by throwing her off the cliff hundreds of feet below. After another long fight between the Monkey King and the Jade Warlord, the Warlord is stabbed by Jason and falls into a lava pit to his death. Golden Sparrow has been seriously injured by the Warlord and she dies in Jason's arms. By then, the Jade Emperor has returned from his meditation and praises Jason for fulfilling the prophecy before returning him home

-Jason finds himself in 21st century Boston after passing through a magical portal at the exact moment and location of his fall. He defeats the bulllies and drives them away. He calls the cops and calls an ambulance for help. Hop then secretly reveals to Jason that he is Lu Yan. Before the movie ends, Jason is happy to see a girl who resembles Golden Sparrow and speaks to her, before she heads back to her shop, called Golden Sparrow Chinese Merchandise.

Cast

• Jackie Chan as Lu Yan, the Drunken Immortal/Hop, the pawn shop owner
• Jet Li as Sun Wukong (called) the Monkey King/The Silent Monk
• Li Bingbing as Ni-Chang, the White-Haired Witch/Assassin
• Michael Angarano as Jason Tripitikas, the Traveler^[5]
• Collin Chou as The Jade Warlord^[6]
• Liu Yifei as Golden Sparrow/the Chinatown girl
• Morgan Benoit as Lupo

Characters


Liu Yifei as Golden Sparrow



Li Bingbing

Colin Chou as the Jade Warlord



Jet Li as the Silent Monk/Monkey King

 

Michael Angarano as Jason




Jackie Chan as Lu Yan



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Jet Li: Rise to Honor

Love this game. I have it. And just as a warning, this game has 62 levels! Yeah, u heard it right, 62!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li:_Rise_to_Honor

-Features the likeness, voice acting, motion capture work of martial arts actor Jet Li and choreography by Corey Yuen

Plot of the game
-The game follows Kit Yun(Jet Li), who is an undercover Hong Kong police officer who is assigned as a bodyguard to Boss Chiang, a friend of Kit's father. A year into the work, Boss Chiang decides to leave the life of organized crome, but not without getting protests from Kwan, one of his associates. Various gang members attempt the murder of Boss Chiang. Despitre Kit's efforts, Boss Chiang gets a bullet anyway by a mysterious sniper

-During Chiang's dying moments, he tells Kit to deliver an envelope containing information about the crime syndicate to his estranged daughter, Michelle. Being a childhood friend of Michelle's, Kit obliges and heads for San Francisco to deliver the message to her, despite whatever bad luck comes his way

-In San Francisco, Kit meets up with Chi, a childhood friend of his and Michelle's. While being chased by thugs led by local crime boss Billy Soon, Kit and Chi successfully manage to regroup with Michelle only to end up as hostages of Billy. Kit learns that Kwan hired Billy to find the envelope and that Billy was under orders to kill the 3 of them. Kit and Chi escape captivity, and free Michelle. After a brief fight, a defeated Billy attempts to shoot Michelle with his handgun, but Chi jumps in the way of the bullet. Michelle is now determined to put an end to Kwan's activities

-Shortly after returning to Hong Kong, Michelle wounded by a sniper in the Cheung Chau harbour, while Kit pursues and kills the sniper. After transporting Michelle to a local hospital, she is kidnapped by Kwan's henchmen, while Kit attempts to pursue her. Kit's chase leads him to a skyscraper building previously owned by Boss Chiang, where he fights and shoots his way through scores of Kwan's henchmen. Kit eventually defeats Kwan in hand-to-hand combat and when he tries to arrest Kwan, he attempts to shoot Kit's superior officer, Victor Lau, only for Kit to disarm him and Victor firing fatal shots to Kwan's chest

-While holding a private funeral for Boss Chiang, Victor approaches the pair, demanding that Kit burn the envelope that Boss Chiang had. Victor reveals that he was responsible for the deaths of Chiang and Kit's father, as well profiting from the crime sydicate. After burning the envelope, Kit reveals he was wearing a wire containing Victor's confession and promptly beats Victor in hand-to-hand combat. Victor is taken into H.K.P.D custody while Kit and Michelle have a short discussion about Victor living anad their fathers being dead. Kit concludes the discussion saying "It it better to die with honor than to live without."

References to Li's films

-A gas mask chamber while trying to fight Kwan in which Kit has to grab Kwan's mask to restore his own air supply, is a reference to the final fight in The Bodyguard from Beijing

-Kit having an option to use mobile stretchers while shooting firearms from a supine position in the hospital stages is also most likely a reference to Black Mask, in which the hero does a similar stunt while commandeering a motorcycle. Several reveiws also note that the hospital gurney scene is from the Hong Kong film Hard Boiled
-Kit releasing his grip on a handrail and grabbing the next one in the floor below, is a reference to the beginning of Cradle 2 the Grave

-Kit fighting twin enemies before fighting the main villain is a reference to Kiss of the Dragon. In addition, the twin enemies are named Fei and Hung, most likely a poke at the folk hero Wong Fei Hung, who Jet Li played in the Once Upon a Time in China series.

-Kit breaking a criminal's neck wuith his legs in a similar fashion to Lethal Weapon 4

-Kit having the option to team up with Michelle for a fight in the Metreon is inspired by Jet Li and Aaliyah's fight scene against Francoise Yip in Romeo Must Die.

-2 unlockable skins: Wong Fei Hung and Chen Zhen from Fist of Legend

-Kit is also the name of Li's character from the 1994 movie Meltdown

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Romeo Must Die

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_Must_Die

Plot
-The son of the head of the local Chinese gang, Po Sing(Jon Kit Lee) gets into a fight at a nightclub run by Silk(DMX) just as Po's bodyguards, led by Kai(Russell Wong), come to rescue him. Silk and his bouncers drive the Chinese gangsters out with assault rifles. Kai argues with Po over stirring the gang war by going to an enemy club. Po brushes him off. In the morning, he's found dead. Word travels to his father, Chu Sing(Henry O) as well as to the leader of a rival black gang, Isaak O'DAy(Delroy Lindo). He orders an investigation. In Hong Kong, Po's brother Han Sing(Jet Li) learns of his brother's death and escapes prison, coming to America

-Isaak sends Maurice(Anthony Anderson) to guard his daughter, Trish(Aaliyah). She gives him the slip and gets into a cab, which Han has just hot wired. They enjoy friendly conversation before she takes off. Meanwhile, Isaak meets with Vincent Roth(Edoardo Ballerini) to discuss his plan of waterfront lands so Roth can become part owner of the city's new NFL football team and it's new stadium. Isaak wants to go legit for the sake of his kids

-In her store, Trish is upset to find her brother Colin O'Day(D.B. Woodside) there talking business and reminds him that she wants nothing to do with their 'gangster' business. Meanwhile, Han breaks into his dead brother's apartment and finds the las number Po called was Trish's store. At a diner, Isaak's 2nd in command Mac(Isaiah Washington) confronts Trish and tells her to be careful due to the rising violence. When she arrives at he home, Han follows her into her apartment and asks her about the call. She suspects Po called Colin, and tells him. Maurice and others arrive and find Han there. They try and fight him, and Han ends up stealing Maurice's SUV

-At Po's funeral, Han confronts his father and demands to know about who killed his brother. His father refuses to answer. Kai tells him that the 2 gangs are fighting for majority control of the waterfront property. That night, Han meets with Trish to see if she has learned anything. Colin and his girlfriend are thrown out of a window by an unknown assassin. The next day, Po's place is ransacked and Han finds Po's car in the garage, where he finds a list of addresses. He returns to the apartmenr where Trish is crying among the mess. After telling him of Colin's murder, she asks for his help.


-They statr visitng the addresses on the list, and the first one the Chinese owner has been murdered. They find killers who they end up chasing after. During the chase, Han finds they are Chinese. He tells his father who dismisses it as a plot task by Isaak and wanrs Han that Trish is just tricking him. Elsewhere, Mac muscles a black fisherman out of his waterfront estate while Kai and his Chinese guards murder the owner and workers of a Chinese-owned waterfront business and steal their property deeds.

-Isaak goes to Trish's home and forces her to come to her childhood home for protection. He warns her to stay away from Han, which leads her to ask if he was involved with Po's death, which he denys. Later on, they talk and he apologizes for not being the best father. Roth calls and interrupts, asking about the deeds. Trish finds Han standing on her balcony

-Han and Trish head to Silk's nightclub, the only place on the list of addresses that has yet to be invaded. Silk sees them and brings them into his office. He explains that Isaak is buying up all the property but is not selling. Mac comes in, murders Silk and kidnaps Trish. Han is beaten unconscious and comes to in a warehouse surrounded by Maurice and other gang members. At the Oakridge Men's Club, Isaak declines to sell the deeds, wanting instead to become a partner. Mac says he is fed up with him and turns on him, bringing Trish as a hostage. He reveals that he was working with Chu to kill any property owners who refused to give up their deeds and that he also murdered Colin. Angered, Isaak attacks Mac and is shot. A gunfight then starts between Roth's bodyguards and Isaak's people. Roth flees with the deeds, but loses them when he drops them from the helicopter he was trying to escape in. Mac gathers them. Han confronts him about his brother and Mac says it was done "in house" before pulling a gun. Trish arrives and shoots him off the roof. Han tells Trish to stay with Isaak and Han goes to confront his father

-1st, Han must get through to Kai, who tells him that he is the one who killed Po. After a lengthy fight with Kai, Han kills him then meets with Chu who tells that he had to protect the business venture. He asks if Han will kill him, but he refuses by saying he has avenged his brother and will leave it to the police or the families of the murdered Chinese property owners to deal with. As he leaves, Chu kills himself.

-Han embraces with Trish and they share an embrace before walking away together. There was an alternate scene for the end, showing Jet Li and Aaliyah sharing a romantic kiss, but it was cut from the movie as some people of Asian descent felt it may not be right, showing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light after fighting. Although, I sure would have loved to have kissed Jet Li. He's cute!!!!!!!!!

Cast

• Jet Li - Han Sing
• Aaliyah - Trish O'Day
• Russell Wong - Kai
• Delroy Lindo - Issak O'Day
• Isaiah Washington - Mac
• Anthony Anderson - Maurice
• Henry O - Ch'u Sing
• D.B. Woodside - Colin O'Day
• Jon Kit Lee - Po Sing
• Edoardo Ballerini - Vincent Roth
• DMX - Silk
• Matthew Harrison - Dave
• Terry Chen - Kung
• Derek Lowe - Chinese Messenger
• Ronin Wong - New Prisoner
• Kendall Saunders - Colin's Girlfriend
• Benz Antoine - Crabman
• Grace Park - Asian Dancer

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