Shanghai Noon

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Shanghai Noon (2000)

PG-13 05/26/2000 (US) Adventure, Action, Comedy, Western 1h 50m

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The old west meets the far east.

Overview

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

Tom Dey

Director
Alfred Gough

Screenplay
Miles Millar

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Jackie Chan

Chon Wang
Owen Wilson

Roy O'Bannon
Lucy Liu

Princess Pei Pei
Xander Berkeley

Nathan Van Cleef
Roger Yuan

Lo Fong
Yu Rongguang

Imperial Guard
Walton Goggins

Wallace
Brandon Merrill

Indian Wife
Jason Connery

Andrews
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A review by Wuchak

70%

Written by Wuchak on September 27, 2020

Entertaining action/comedy Western

Released in 2000, "Shanghai Noon" features Jackie Chan as Chon Wang (the Chinese spelling of John Wayne) who teams up with good bad-guy Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson). They're pursuing the Empress of China or a load of gold -- whatever -- and have many misadventures.

It didn't dawn on me until the end that the title "Shanghai Noon" is a comical take on "High Noon" (aduh). Anyway, this is a good flick to watch if you're in the mood for an Indiana Jones-type movie, like 1999's "The Mummy." It's not as good as "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but it's better th... read the rest.

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