Shanghai Knights

Lisa Schwarzbaum

type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG 13 runtime 114 minutes Wide Release Date 02/07/03 performer Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Aaron Johnson, Fann Wong, Donnie Yen director David Dobkin distributor Touchstone Pictures author Alfred Gough, Miles Millar genre Comedy, Action Adventure Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson reteam for a sequel to Shanghai Noon so indefatigably preposterous and cheery that the mayhem improves on the original. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

The world of the action comedy is fraught with failure, still more so the period Western kung fu comedy, but here is a movie, like its predecessor Shanghai Noon (2000), that bounds from one gag to another like an eager puppy. ( Read More )

Nell Minow

Wong has a dazzling smile and a lethal kick, always a good combination to have on hand. ( Read More )

As an actor in American films, Chan is hamstrung by his limitations in the English language face it, hes here because hes a wizard when it comes to the action sequences, some of which are amazingly inventive in Shanghai Knights. ( Read More )

Steve Davis

A sequel to Shanghai Noon, this second pairing of Chan and Wilson as mismatched turn of the century adventurers Chon Wang and Roy OBannon is not without its slight charms, although its overall lack of polish relegates it to nothing better than B movie status. ( Read More )