The plot is so unrealistic!

About Mahjong:
That PC game where you just collect pairs may be called Mahjong but is NOT the real thang. The Mahjong he was talking about in the movie needs exactly 4 players. It is possible to play with 3 players but not intended to. You cannot play it alone because it makes no sense if you know which pieces the other players hold. It's like playing Poker against yourself, it just doesn't make any sense.

I'd like to add some things to the list (btw, if you rename it to "Things I learned from Kiss of the Dragon" then people would stop complaining that you can't enjoy martial arts movies without nitpicking):

9) If you get back a stolen tape that recorded you murdering people, keep it somewhere locked instead of destroying it.

10) It makes sense to obtain shrimp chips for your daughter although you haven't seen her for more than a year.

11) You can setup a trap in an orphanage with lots of henchmen without waking up anybody.

12) If your arm got hurt so badly that you have to use the other arm to move it around, all you need is to sew it up and 2 minutes later your arm is fit enough to fight black giants that come out of nowhere.

13) It's okay to snipe chinese officials in the public and it makes sense to put all blame on the one person sitting next to the victim.

14) As a prostitute, if you park your ass in front of a chinese shrimp chip shop, you'll only have 5 customers per week because it's a "bad place". Just 10 meters along the same street will grant you15 customers per day.

15) If you free a pet tortoise, best thing you could do is setting it free in someone's backyard, it will surely do okay.

16) Acupuncture works instantly, requires only a single needle and can cause everything from sleep to death.

17) If you *see* someone stuck in laundry duct through a hole that you just shot - then the best way to eliminate that person is to throw a grenade up the duct instead of shooting at the known position.

Since when are movies meant to be realistic?

1. More like a department.
2. All Domestic forces in the world are trained in unarmed combat and they actually used guns against Li unless the room is to small to fight in.
3. Well these ones were gangsters.
4. Its his gun, no one likes to lose their gun.
5. Actually there are. Karate, Kick Boxing, Taijutsu, etc.
6. Whats wrong with speaking english? They have to do it often anyway to get used to speaking English more often in a foreign land where English is the second language and not Chinese.
7. Why would they? Santa is a Western myth.
8. Its called thinking outside of the box.


Wow im lame for replying to a 2 year old topic.

What? A martial arts/action film that is unrealistic? Wow, who ever heard of such a thing, huh? I mean, most such movies are rooted firmly in realism, right?

bbc100's comment is more unrealistic than the movie was.

I always believed that the one he brought through was a personal favorite that he liked to use, probably personally owned, and then the standard issue one or whatever that he can obtain through his contact. He'll probably keep his personal one as a backup at the safe house, and then carry the other one through. Idk :/

6) Generally with other languages in movies such as French and Chinese in this movie. All interactions between people of the same nationality are presumed to be in their natural language, only spoken in English, as if by magic the movie has translated everything for the audience to understand.

This only happens with main character dialog, or inportant dialog. anything that is classed as unimportant, like the Uncle dismissing his friend at the begining when Li shows up, that is in natural language cause it has nothing to sdo with plot or anything the audience needs to understand.

plots in these types of movies are most of the time over the top, but in this one the story and acting overall is below par. Jet Li and his great fight scenes holds up in this, but everything else bothers too much. Like a real bad comic book turned to a movie.

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who cares it,s a great action movie