Martial Arts genius Jet Li explodes onto the screen with a smouldering intensity not seen since Bruce Lee.

Portraying Chinas top government agent Liu Jiuan, he travels to Paris, a city completely alien to him, to uncover an international drug conspiracy.

Along the way, he befriends the beautiful and sensuous Jessica (Bridget Fonda), forced into prostitution and heroin addiction by a corrupt French inspector.

Lis action sequences are like an oil fire, spilling from one room into the next...

with heat and wreckage. (The New York Times).