a5c7b9f00b When a Chinese rebel murders Chon&#39;s estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds. When a Chinese rebel murders Chon&#39;s estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds. Chon&#39;s sister, Lin, has the same idea, and uncovers a worldwide conspiracy to murder the royal family but almost no one will believe her. Shanghai Knights (2003): Dir: David Dobkin / Cast: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aidan Gillen, Donnie Yen: Sequel to Shanghai Noon with a title that suggests storybook themes in a way that Owen Wilson attempts to impress people with bogus adventures, plus it references classic films and actors. Yet it is still just a series of set pieces and tired plotting. The Chinese Seal is stolen and Jackie Chan&#39;s father is murdered. His sister pursues the killers to London where an assassination is planned. Chan and Owen Wilson reunite and various stunts and action sequences follow. Standard issue plot with David Dobkin doing welldirector. Hopefully he will move beyond this. Chan combines action and humour. Wilson throws out one-liners and delusional fantasies. Unfortunately they are merely reciting what worked better during their western outing. Fann Wong is skilledChan&#39;s sister who pursues her father&#39;s killer. She is the one interesting role in the film and it is still not enough to make this watchable. Villains are unfortunately standard with Aidan Gillan leading the pack. He is aboutfrighteningElmer Fudd less the personality. Because Rush Hour spawned a sequel, I suppose they figured out of fairness, why not sequel Shanghai Noon. The result is a well made comedy that servesnothing more than a pointless sequel. Score: 3 ½ / 10 In &quot;Shanghai Noon&quot; Jackie Chan played a Chinese-born Western Sheriff named Chon Wang (pronounced, in one of the film&#39;s many in-jokes, &quot;John Wayne&quot;). In this sequel the action moves from the Wild West to the London of 1887, the year of Queen Victoria&#39;s Golden Jubilee. Chon has gone to London, accompanied by his American sidekick Roy O&#39;Bannon, to track down the men who have murdered his father, the Keeper of the Imperial Seal. The murderers are a rebel against the Chinese government and Lord Nelson Rathbone, a British aristocrat who is a cousin of Queen Victoria and tenth in line to the throne. Rathbone is planning to murder not only the Queen herself but also all the rest of the Royal Family so that he can become King. It falls to Chon, O&#39;Bannon and Chon&#39;s sister Lin (with whom O&#39;Bannon has fallen in love) to thwart this dastardly plot, assisted by a cheeky street-urchin (who later turns out to be Charlie Chaplin) and a bumbling policeman (who turns out to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).<br/><br/>This is not, of course, a serious historical drama. There are numerous historical inaccuracies; apart from those already on your &quot;goofs&quot; board, I noted a couple more. There is no such place in Ireland&quot;Holmes County&quot;. Queen Victoria had nine children and, by 1887, numerous grandchildren, so any cousin of hers would have been a lot further down the line of succession than tenth. These goofs, however, do not matter greatly,the film never sets out to be a serious drama or an accurate picture of late nineteenth century life. Like most Jackie Chan vehicles it is a comedy which incorporates martial-arts elements. (It has many similarities to the more recent &quot;Around the World in Eighty Days&quot; which presented an equally inaccurate picture of life in Victorian Britain).<br/><br/>Much of the humour comes from the martial arts sequences, which,normal with Chan, combine exciting action with slapstick comedy. Humour also arises from the relationship between Chon and O&#39;Bannon, amusingly played by Chan and Owen Wilson. Many adventure stories have at their centre a European or European-descended hero accompanied by a loyal, but subordinate, non-Caucasian companion, a pattern going back at least to Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday and famously exemplified by the Lone Ranger and Tonto. In &quot;Shanghai Knights&quot; this pattern is inverted. O&#39;Bannon has been publishing, under a pseudonym, a series of novels which give a fictionalised account of his adventures with Chon and which always show himselfthe hero. In reality, however, it is the brave and resourceful Chon who takes the leading role; O&#39;Bannon is lazy, boastful and something of a coward, a man who left to his own devices would prefer to lead an easy life and use his fame to attract the girls. He is, however, a loyal friend to Chon and can sometimes find reserves of courage when required. This may not be a serious film but it can be an entertaining and amusing one; I preferred it to the first film, &quot;Shanghai Noon&quot;. 6/10 A hugely entertaining and more lavishly mounted follow-up to 2000's "Shanghai Noon," the high-concept East-meets-Western that first teamed top-billed duo, pic rides even taller in the saddlea fleet and funny crowd-pleaser.
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