Shanghai Knights and the Matrix

January 27, 2003

If you liked Shanghai Noon, you’ll like Shanghai Knights. If you didn’t, you won’t. There’s some new wrinkles in this one, but the good parts are the same. The film rides mostly on the good natured chemistry between Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, who both seem like they’re having great fun all the time. Wilson’s affable delivery carries a lot of the stiffer jokes to levels of hilarity that the script only dreamt of, and Chan gets to do lots of Chan stuff (including a really nice fight sequence/homage to Singing the Rain).

The Super Bowl was kind of dull, except for the Matrix commercial, which was bananas. Downloadable here.

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