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Shanghai Surprise?

Advantages: Wilson's Wit and Chan's high kicks
Disadvantages: A plodding and cliched plot

Shanghai Surprise? Well no not really. Shanghai Noon has an enormous advantage over its sequel, everyone expected it to be rubbish. Wilson’s wit teamed with Chan’s physical dexterity and choreographed ingenuity made for a pleasant surprise. The trouble w ...

Zoe 06.12.2003 · Read full review
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America's best example of Jackie Chan so far

Advantages: Brilliant stunts and fight sequences. Better paced than the first film
Disadvantages: Strange use of music. The direction of comedy moments not up to much.

SHANHAI NOON was a great idea, a western buddy movie featuring the pairing of an Inept gun sliger and a Chinese karate master and indeed it did lead to what is still Jackie Chan's best U.S. film, with the help of the ever reliable Owen Wilson providing ma ...

moxon123 04.02.2006 · Read full review
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Shanghai Knights Are Alright At Fighting

Advantages: Good old chop-socky
Disadvantages: You'll hate it if you dislike no-brainers

The heroes of “Shanghai Noon” are back! This time, former highwayman Roy O’Bannon and former Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang have to travel to England to track down the killers of Chon’s estranged father. But when they arrive, they stumble on a plot to m ...

afy9mab 04.05.2003 · Read full review
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From London to Stonehenge in two minutes flat

Advantages: very very funny
Disadvantages: it makes your belly hurt

After a hard and fairly stressful day with the kids and the ironong etc etc etc, I bemoaned the fact to my hubby that, and I quote, "It's the same thing day in, day out" and got on with putting the kids to bed......After I'd crashed on the sofa with a fac ...

noofer 16.04.2003 · Read full review
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Tell That To The Eel Swimming Up My Pants!

Advantages: Owen Wilson, of course!
Disadvantages: Fight scenes get a bit boring and predictable.

...Another day, another Owen Wilson movie to review, as promised, here is the sequel to yesterday's Shanghai Noon review, and this film is even better than the first - Shanghai Knights - starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. --- Cast. --- Chon Wang - J ...

damncoldnightdotnet 13.05.2004 · Read full review
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