Shanghai Knights

Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: February 7, 2003

8.3	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 182 Ratings

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LynxspiritDec 11, 2012

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Rarely is a sequel as good as the original. This is the exception. Shanghai Knights is superbly done, from the plot and the dynamics between the two central characters to the music and fight/dance choreography, this excels at them all. Jackie Chan shines as usual with his comedic martial arts moves, and Owen Wilson does an excellent portrayal of a BS artist, but always loyal to his friend and vice versa. This movie is a delightful parody of era films, from silent movies to 40's dance musicals to 60's psychedelia, it has a little of everything. And that includes real life characters of the late 1800s woven throughout, many a surprise to the audience. A lot of fun to watch - 10 out of 10, easily.… Expand

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Night_Hawk_2012May 17, 2012

An action packed comedy! I loved it Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were hilarious and Fann Wong was good too. If you like action movies and comedy movies then Shanghai Knights is a movie for you.

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Vanta77Jun 2, 2019

Always loved the Shanghai movies, the first one was better though and had a more exciting and executed script. Still a very needed and fun sequel with diamond material. Would've loved the third one.

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DawdlingPoetNov 23, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This film starts off with Jackie Chan's character from the first movie (Shanghai Noon), Chon, being the sheriff of Carson City, where he settled down after the end of the last movie. However, he doesn't stay there long, as he gets bad news from his sister - that his estranged father has been killed back in China. This results in Chon reuniting with Roy and the two of them travelling to victorian London (both movies being set in the Victorian age, just to clarify), where they accidentally stumble upon a plot to kill the Royal family. Again they end up in lots of different situations, including being thrown back in jail again and teaming up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! (the name of the real life author of Sherlock Holmes),.

Again this movie offers a good share of comedy, with funny scenes (one of Roy O'Bannon having a dream about something totally different then waking up to being licked by a goat being one example, watch the movie you'll see what I mean - again somewhat cheesy but it has to make you laugh at least a little!), some fairly clever dialogue (as there is in the original movie) and more displays of Jackie Chan's signature comic martial arts.

Somewhat random and quirky but basically good for a laugh, it again works as a funny and entertaining movie. Again I would also say that it doesn't take itself too seriously but its perfectly adequate as an entertaining comedy movie for most of the family (apart from younger children, like I said above its rated 12).… Expand

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MaxthorAug 27, 2023

Similar to its predecessor, although there's some sacrifice in terms of refining the storyline, the inherent charisma of Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson manages to carry the entire film, and that's more than sufficient.

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