After deciding to remain in America Chon Wang becomes the sheriff of Carson City, Nevada. He is doing quite well capturing criminals in an amazing manner. While his partner Roy O’bannon has moved to New York City to try and make his fortune there. He has teamed up with an author of dime store novels and has been publishing fictional tales of his Wild West days with the Shanghai Kid as his sidekick. But back in China Chon’s father who is the protector of the Imperial Seal has been murdered. His sister who was with him at the time has tracked their father’s to London, England and has sent a note to her brother that she will avenge their father’s murder. So Chon tracks off to New York to find Roy and get his share of the imperial money he had Roy invest so he can catch a ship to England. But he finds out that Roy has been not doing so well and has invested his money badly. So it’s up to Roy to come up with some amazing scheme yet again to get them to England. Once there he will meet Lin, Chon’s sister and fall maidenly and hopelessly in love with her. While Roy battles his feelings for Lin they must also try and solve the murder of Chon’s father, recover the royal seal and try and save the Royal family all at once.

Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan team up again for the sequel to Shanghai Noon. The movie is once again an action packed romp and mixture of comedy that only Jackie Chan can seem to manage to pull off. The movie is much improved over Chan’s last failed attempt The Tuxedo. This is simply because they allow him to work his magic without the concocted story. Chan mixes humor with his martial arts and is known for his use of weird objects when he is doing a fight scene. The movie has an endless supply of such scenes from revolving doors to a scene reminiscent of Rush Hour with artifacts. Also the movie instills lots of sight gags that might take you a dozen viewings to pick up on all of them. From a fight scene with Jackie Chan looking like Fred Astaire in Singing in the Rain, to references to Charlie Chaplin and Sherlock Holmes. The movie is an action packed thrill ride with lots of laughs and chuckles. But to me the movies tempo seemed to be off at times. I can’t seem to put a finger to it, it might have been the weird Score that they seemed to use that was not fast paced enough for most of the action scenes or it might have been some of the slightly contrived action scenes that were more humorous then action. But whatever it was at times I found myself not being able to get into the story. Ussually Chan does a better job with tempo that this movie lacked. Also the relationship with Wilson and Fann Wong just seemed to have any intsenity or chemistry. It was Fann though who saves this movie as she had such a charismatic precense on the screen you could not help being enthralled by her. In fact her fight scenes were a lot better done and more interesting that Jackie’s. It is clear to say that she is the real star of this film and not Jackie in so much that you are wishing to see more scenes of her rather than of Wilson and Chan. Overall the movie is very good and quite funny but just seems to be lacking at times. At times you may find it hard for you to get involved in the story and it doesn’t quite live up to Shanghai Noon.
3 stars out of 5