Shanghai Knights Critic Reviews

With Shanghai Knights, he (Chan) has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable. Read the full review

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 saddle as a fleet and funny crowd-pleaser.Read the full review

Coasts heavily on Chan and Wilson's charm, which would be a big problem if those prodigiously gifted stars weren't taking on roles that fit like two pairs of comfortable slippers.Read the full review

Far from great but greatly entertaining.Read the full review

The star interplay and anachronisms recapture some of the surreal spirit of the Crosby-Hope Road movies, and the end-credit outtakes are funny enough to sustain that getting-hoary device for at least one more picture. Read the full review

Bounds from one gag to another like an eager puppy. Read the full review

This is an action-comedy sequel so indefatigably preposterous and farklemt -- as they say in certain Upper West Side saloons -- that it actually improves on the original.Read the full review

Pretty mediocre entertainment, and probably better suited for home viewing than a trip to the multiplex.Read the full review

Loving Jackie Chan has always been easy, which is why it would be nice if he could find better material in which to bask in his long-sought American stardom or, alternately, ease into bad movies as effortlessly as his co-star. Read the full review