Customer Reviews
Great fun! (again) - By: Spicy, 14 Jul 2007 
I first saw Shanghai Noon on tv & loved it, I then went on the internet to order it & found Shanghai Knights.
Knights is funnier & the plot is excellent - especiallly with alll of the characters: Jack the Ripper, Charlie Chaplain etc.
Its about when a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father & escapes to England, Chon & Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds, (with a little help from Chon's sexy sister Chon Lin) They aim to get the Imperial Seal the Chinese rebel stole back.
This film is packed with laughs & jokes & also picks up on characters from Shanghai Noon as well. A must for comedy/action lovers.
This film is packed with laughs
Chan and Wilson 2!! - By: , 04 Dec 2005 
Not as good as its predesesor Shanghi Noon but works well alll the same. Roy O'Barron is now a waiter & has "lost" alll the money on the slots. Meanwhile Chon wang's father is murdered. The pair team up & we have Shanghi Knights! If you like this try: Twin dragons, The tuxedo & the Wedding Crashers.
Mindless trash ... but it works! - By: Joseph Haschka, 20 Jun 2004 In the opening sequence of SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, the aged keeper of China's Great Imperial Seal is knifed during the seal's theft. With his dying breath, the old man extracts from his daughter, Chon Lin (Fann Wong), the promise to recover the trinket.
The film next jumps to Carson City, Nevada, where Lin's brother Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is town sheriff. He relinquishes his badge to travel to New York City to meet his old sidekick (from SHANGHAI NOON), Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), a lothario waiter on the run from impoverishment & the irate father of two nubile & willing young ladies. Roy & Wang go on to 1880s London to rendezvouz with Lin & recover the seal. The Carson City & Big Apple sequences are unnecessary except to (re)introduce the audience to our two heroes, & provide a few gags & martial arts skirmishes. Once in London, the core of the storyline unfolds.
SHANGHAI KNIGHTS is mindless trash. (Come to think of it, so is this review.) However, it works because of the perfect chemistry between Chan & Wilson. The (relatively) straight-laced Wang is the perfect foil for Roy's lunatic shenanigans. (This is what makes Chan & Wilson a great comedy team in the tradition of Abbott & Costello.) And the exuberant energy of their skits is indicative of the fun they're obviously having with their roles. In addition, Jackie supplies the amazing martial arts choreography. In this film, Fann Wong as Li demonstrates that she can go kick for kick with Chan. And where has Ms. Wong been? She's exquisitely & delicately beautiful.
In a supporting role, Aaron Johnson as the larcenous guttersnipe Charlie is a pure joy. I wish he'd had much more screen time.
SHANGHAI KNIGHTS isn't a great film, or even one worth a second viewing. But it's the fun antidote for the low spirits perhaps brought on by more sobering fare.
One last thought. SHANGHAI KNIGHTS was filmed in London, Calgary, & a studio in the Czech Republic. The credits give little overt evidence that Hollywood was involved in the film's technical creation. Is Tinseltown becoming superfluous in the nuts & bolts of filmmaking?
Shanghai Knit Wits............. - By: Steve, 19 Jan 2004 .
Some of the things that made Shanghai Noon so good were the odd pairing & the unusual setting. The pairing novelty is gone, but they tried hard to find another unusual setting. An ex-bandit / western hero (self-proclaimed) & an ex-imperial guard / western sheriff in Victorian London certainly had some potential. Add the beautiful sister of Chon & you should have had a winner.
But it didn't quite gel.
The daft duo seem on pretty good form with their stilted banter & run of blunders. But the jokes about people's names were tired at the end of Shanghai Noon. They are drained of life now. There are a lot of jokes about the English. Fair enough up to a point. There are only four types of Englishman, as far as American cinema goers are concerned; fools, villains, cowards & James Bond (and so often, JB is not actuallly English).
The villainous Lord & the daft Inspector of Scotland Yard are more than stereotypes, they are positively quadraphonic. And they are so badly acted & not very funny.
There are plenty of historical inaccuracies - but who cares. I certainly liked the explanation as to why Jack The Ripper stopped his attacks - because Lin sorted him out! I like the naivety that moved Stonehenge so close to London.
But the "fight" scenes lacked the wow factor - being neither fight enough or slapstick enough. As Jackie Chan gets older he seems to be able to win less & less fights by Kung Fu. Most of his opponents now lose because they falll down somehoe or get hit by furniture or structural parts due to his Buster Keaton type shenanigans. That's OK, but I imagine some of the die hard martial arts fans get a bit fed up with the "fights" in this film.
The out-takes at the end are good fun.
This is a good bit of light entertainment but fails to reach the heights of the original.
Four to Five stars - By: , 19 Jan 2004 Sequel to that genius piece of Chan-comedy Shanghai Noon (with Owen Wilson playing a very worthy sidekick), Shanghai Knights sees the pair stow away on a ship to England, to avenge Chon's father. Unsurprisingly it is a very comic affair, even if it is slighty cheesy. The simple good vs. evil plot is used (again) & there are very few twists, but even so an altogether enjoyable viewing experience. To use a cliché "If you liked the Shanghai Noon, you'll love this!".
