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Shanghai Knights

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This movie was o.k. but I didn't care for it as much as I did Shanghai Noon. In Shanghai Noon I couldn't stop laughing but I didn't find that I laughed but a time or two in Shanghai Knights. The bloopers at the end gave me many more laughs then the actual movie did. I thought the vase scene was way to fake & didn't make a whole lot of sense. I don't plan on watching it again. To be honest, I just saw the movie yesterday & can't remember most of it. It's just not a movie that's going to stick with you. I'd say skip this movie.

"Shanghai Noon" was one of the funniest and most spontanious films I have seen in months...... so I had no fear when I ponied up 26 bucks for this sequel, and I could not believe how weak it was. Okay... Chan is just fine, the fighting sequences are classic Chan and inventive, and of course he is charming and humorous. The cinematography is well crafted...... AND yes, there are some very major historic and continuity problems with this film....

First of all if you have any passion for historic recreations in film, you are going to be seriously disturbed by the amount of blunders here.. they are too numerous to mention, and on several websites are on-going discussions of what they were and why they were overlooked. Never mind, the first film had historic mistakes as well.. and one can argue that this IS comedy...... but if you KNOW history, they are going to be distracting and you will miss the action, comedy and excitement of the film.

However, my main complaint is the musical "jokes" that pepper the film. We are in Victorian London, England and we hear huge chunks of loud musical clips from pop songs of the 1950s and 60s, like the old Roger Miller tune "England Swings", "Singing in the Rain" (no it is not raining and Jackie is not singing when they play it), "Magic Bus" (no, there is no bus in the scene) and "Winchester Cathedral" which plays loudly in a scene filmed at... get this... "Buckingham Palace"!! There are more, very loud musical "jokes" that totally detract and ruin the mood of the setting, comic moments and the action at hand. The main orchestral score itself is actually well composed and performed, but the added outlandish musical jokes are totally inappropriate and go on far too long to be funny.... and in fact... without them, the movie, in my opinion, would have been a lot more fun and enjoyable.

As far as Owen's performance... it was clearly NOT up to the fine job he did in the first film. In "Noon" he was funny, loveable, playful and genuine. In this film he seems distracted, over-directed and less expressive. He also does not look like he is having fun with his character.... it's a walk through for him.

My suggestion is to get the first film... its a treasure. Far fetched, yes, but it has charm, comedy, continuity, drama, and loads of action. This new film is a series of jokes and parodies (musical and otherwise) that simply don't hold together or keep a person involved in the continuity... and even the great Jackie Chan can't keep it together alone.

This sequel to Shanghai Noon is perhaps one of Jackie Chan's worst movies. The story is a cliche--Jackie has to rescue his sister and avenge his father's death. The twist in this story is that he has to go to England to find the killer. Of couse we have to put up with a lot of bad jokes about English food and stereotypical English gentlemen. I particularly hated the performance of Owen Wilson. I simply can't understand why he keeps getting cast as a comedian. He's definitely not funny at all. To make it worse, the character he plays has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Even Jackie Can is not at his best in this one. The fight scenes aren't as fluid as some of his other recent performances. His age really shows in his fight scenes. If you're craving a recent Jackie Chan film, you should stick with the Rush Hour series. I give this two stars instead of one out of goodwill for Jackie Chan.

This is one of those great action comedies only the best like jakie chan can pull off, this time, their adventure is set in England, where they have to rescue chan's sister, and retrive the emperor's seal from a swordsman with the help of Sir Artur Conan Doyle, creater of the lost world, sherlock holmes and other inmaginary stories, with an all star cast and great action sequence, this movie with keep you hungry for more and rumors on the third flick is "Shanghi Legends" will be finished by Summer of '05.

Don't pay attention to the lack of continuity of SK with Shanghai Noon SN. The guts of this movie is the continuing relationship between the laconic Chong Wang, played by jackie Chan (no longer a NEW mega star, but an authentic one) and Wyatt Earp, who goes by the name of Roy OBannon, played by the new mega star Owen Wilson.

The stunt work is not 5 star, but it is still good enough to entertain. This is safe for the family.

The bad guy in this one is even better than the three bad guys in SN, maybe because the writers could pile all the badness onto one really great bad guy. This is 3 stars - GOOD. Most people who like Chan and Wilson will enjoy this fun romp.

I loved this movie. It's action packed, funny and has a great plotline and story to it. I've never seen the first, but this one is great. Chan's acting is still pretty similar to Rush Hour and his past performances, but I still like him. With Owen Wilson on his side and chans sister to help, these guys get in some crazy stuff and make the movie a blast. So trust me, if you've never watched Jackie Chan or you think he's nothing much, you'll love this movie. THIS MOVIE IS A DEFINENT BUYER!!!!

Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return in the sequal to their movie "Shanghai Noon," a movie which I did not like at all, but now they both return with a great sequal and a great movie "Shanghai Knights." What I liked about "Shanghai Knights," what that there was more comedy in this movie and the action scenes used that comedy. Owen Wilson also proves once again that he is a great comedic actor, just like he did with his other great movies "I Spy," "The Royal Tenenbaums." and "The Big Bounce." Jackie Chan also gives us his best role after making decent movies like "The Tuxedo," and "The Medallion."

The movie takes place in 1887. Chon Wang(pronounced John Wayne) is the sheriff in carson City Neveda, who has to go to London after learning that his father, the keeper of the Imperial Seal that his family was guarding, has been murdered, and his sister Chon Lin followed the killer to London. He goes to New York to collect his money from his old partner Roy O' Bannon, an ex-cowboy who is getting his "adventures" into best-selling books, written by Sage McAlister. Roy lost the money after a bad investment, and the two escape from trouble that Roy gets into an make it to London. When they make it their they run into Charlie, an young kid who is part of a street gang. After defeating them, they get arrested and meet Artie Doyle, a police inspector for Scotland Yard. Artie is happy that they got rid of the gang, he informs Chon that his sister is in jail after trying to kill Lord Rathbone. Rathbone is the Queen's cousin and is the tenth in line of the throne. He needs the seal for Wu Chan, who wants to use it to gain control of China, while Rathbone uses a new weapon "the machine gun" to become the next in line of the throne. But Chon, and Roy won't have any of that, and set off to stop Rathbone for killing the royal family. Chon also has to deal with the feelings that Roy and Chon Lin have developed towards each other, with comedic recults.

"Shanghai Knights" is an action comedy where it cannot compare to the first. There is a huge difference between the goodness of the two movies, and this one comes out on top without a doubt. It was a great movie, that had comedy that is better then movies that are just comedies. Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan work so well off of one another, that you just can't imagine them not having a good time making this movie.

ENJOY!

Rated PG-13 for action violence and sexual content.

Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) are together once again in this sequel to Shanghai Noon (2000), and this time someone has murdered Chon's father and stolen the Imperial Seal. Together the two heroes travel to England and clues lead them to a person who is in a high position with the Royal family. In order to avenge Chon's father and retrieve the Imperial Seal they have to use subtle finesse and bare knuckles. Shanghai Knights is a wild comedy where slap-stick humor and one-liners are used interchangeably. However, there are moments when the comedy becomes awkward, yet the film leaves the audience with a side-splitting and passable cinematic experience,

The first time I saw this movie I didn't think much of it, but when I watched it again it was absolutely histerical! These two make such a good team.

My wife and I are great fans of Jackie Chan and we both liked Shanghai Noon. That's why we rented Shanghai Knights. But this sequel was, frankly, very boring. Jackie has some nice fight sequences as usual. But the story was very weak (even for a martial arts movie!). It was also slow moving at parts, so much so that we were tempted to stop watching. And this is the first movie I've seen made by Jackie Chan where there's actually an adult scene not appropriate for kids (involves some yucky tongue-licking). It's a short scene, but still - I wonder if Jackie is trying to get away from the 'good and clean' image. Even without that scene, this movie is definitely not entertaining enough. I certainly wouldn't recommend buying it (rental maybe).