Imagine Rush Hour (martial arts) mixed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (outlaw cowboy), and that gives you an idea of what to expect with this fun to watch western action comedy, from director Tom Dey (Failure to Launch). Basically it is the 19th Century, and Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu) is kidnapped from her the Forbidden City in her home country, and it is the strict duty and personal responsibility of Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) to get her back, well, with the other three guys, but forget them. On his journey in Nevada, in the U.S., he meets outlaw cowboy Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), originally a near bad guy, with no like of violence or anything nasty, but he is soon finding himself wanting to help his new "partner". Oh, by the way, the bad guy is Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), a traitor of Wang's home country, and he is obviously wanting a priceless amount of gold as ransom. Also starring Brandon Merrill as Indian wife, Candyman's Xander Berkeley as Van Cleef, Walton Goggins as Wallace, Adrien P. Dorval as Blue, Rafael Báez as Vasquez and Jason Connery as Andrews. Chan gets his stunts and fighting sequences, and Wilson gets his witty dialogue and gun play, and Liu gets to look glamorous, in a pretty entertaining film. Worth watching!
Review of Shanghai Noon
