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Best Jackie Chan US Production Yet
Shanghai Noon is by far the best Jackie Chan movie made in the US. It is much more enjoyable than the over-rated Rush Hour. For me a large part of that is because I find Owen Wilson to be much more entertaining and amiable than the grating human cartoon, Chris Tucker. But even more than Tucker, the fight scenes are much closer to his Hong Kong films. Close but still not quite there. The action has all of Jackie's trademark acrobatics and fast editing. It seems to be slowed down a bit from Rumble In The Bronx, Supercop or any of his other HK films though.

There is a great deal of chemistry between Jackie and Owen and a lot of that has to do with Jackie's Mr Nice Guy persona. You can't help but feel he's everybody's friend. The relationship of the two characters reminded me a lot of the Robert DeNiro/Charles Grodin relationship in Midnight Run. Owen Wilson is the footloose rouge trying to get the stiff uptight Chan to relax and take life as it comes. This is a fun buddy film that I would highly recommend.

Mainstream Jackie = great movie
Okay, in a nutshell: lots of laughs, great character chemistry, simple and easy to follow plot, luscious (Canadian) scenery, storming music score by Randy Edelman, a horse that thinks it's a bloke, a small part for Jason Connery (looking more and more like his dad) and the most important bit - lots of Jackie Chan set pieces. Antlers, horseshoes, even his hair - simply fantastic. Owen Wilson was born to be a cowboy with that voice, and the film yips along without you realising it. Lucy Lui is the fantastic princess, and with lots of cowboys and 'Jewish' injuns about its about as funny and enjoyable a film as we'll get for the rest of this year. Watch out for the hilarious "Chinese drinking game" in the bath(s) scene and the "piss shirt not break" jailbreak. Do yourself a favour and see it - if only for the outtakes on the end! And with this film YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH APPALLING DUBBING! Rumours of a sequel? Bring it on!

Fun and lighthearted eastern western
"Holy crap, vultures are eating my head!" So said Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) as he's buried up to his neck in the middle of the desert, just before Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) leaves Roy two chopsticks in his mouth to dig himself out. SHANGHAI NOON, though not great, is a terrifically fun and funny film. Chon comes to the states to rescue a kidnapped princess and encounters O'Bannon, a funny, laconic wanna be desperado who's more interested in the fringe benefits of being a desperado than the actual work of becoming one. But when Jackie finds the princess (the scrumptious, freckle faced Lucy Liu) he finds maybe she doesn't want to go back. An inventive, hilarious movie chock full of Chan's patented fighting and stunts (though a couple were obvious cheats, either by a computer or a stunt double, a rarity for Chan but hey, he is pushing fifty years old) and the extras on the DVD are pretty nifty, including a "so you want to be a desperado" and a "so you want to be a Chinese imperial guard" interactive games. Jackie's best movie? Not quite. But the chemistry between Chan and the deadpan hilarious Wilson is much better than the Chan and Tucker of Rush Hour. Watch for the gut splittingly funny bath tub drinking game. Better than Rush Hour and Who Am I? but not as good as Jackie's better Hong Kong films. Still worth repeated viewings though.

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