Shanghai Knights: Critic Reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 163 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

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.
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Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

70

With Shanghai Knights, [Chan] has come through with one of his best.
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Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

75

Knights will surely find an enthusiastic following before it gets to video.
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Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

Far from great but greatly entertaining, Jackie Chan's Shanghai Knights is certainly one of the best of his English-language pictures.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Wilson has his surfer-dude moments of humor, but he's doing his best with creatively dead material.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

So appallingly slipshod in all the usual departments is this sequel to the engaging martial-arts comedy Western Shanghai Noon that you're tempted to cite its makers for contempt.
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Ed Park Village Voice (Top Critic)

It's a merry surfeit, lofted by calisthenic wow above the usual level for late-era Jackie and Wilson's mellow-gold delivery.
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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

75

Except for some doubles, Chan performs his fight scenes in this film live on camera while doing his most creative choreography in years.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

Shanghai Knights is more of the same. In this case, that's good enough.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

The movie is just the sort of mindless entertainment we're ready for after all of December's distinguished and significant Oscar finalists.
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Mark Caro Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

75

Chan and Wilson are like a Nerf ball and a screwball improvising a game suited to their oddball physics.
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Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

67

If Knights isn't exactly great filmmaking, it is at least a lot of silly fun.
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Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

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Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

Propelled by potent chemistry between Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, Shanghai Knights proves that, sometimes, bigger actually can be better.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

Even more fun than the 2000 original.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

Shanghai Knights never comes close to the wacky surprise of Shanghai Noon.
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

40

[A] mundane sequel.
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

A pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you- in-the-pants kind of way.
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Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

There isn't a minute of Shanghai Knights that didn't have me grinning.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

Given a more credible narrative that cared a little about the characters, Shanghai Knights could have been solid entertainment. As it is, it ranks no higher than a passable diversion.
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David Hunter Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

It's the stronger supporting players and script that make Knights a more palatable hybrid than Noon.
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

25

Grating. That's the best word to describe this flat follow-up to Shanghai Noon.
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