Engaging Jackie Chan movie for older teens and up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Much of its strength comes from the central clash between Jackie's indomitable energy and Wilson's knowingly anachronistic cool, while lots of visual and verbal gags keep things whistling.

| Jun 24, 2006

Shanghai Noon is an accomplished follow-up to Jackie Chan's first big-budget US film Rush Hour.

| Dec 2, 2002

This is almost Mel Brooks territory: The frontiersmen think the Chinese are Jews, while the white settlers think it's the Sioux who are. This is equal-opportunity nuttiness, and there's a method to it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Shanghai Noon makes for a nice guilty pleasure outing.

| Jan 1, 2000

If summer movie season is the postmodern equivalent of the traveling circus, then Jackie Chan is a one-man big top, his own ringmaster, acrobat troupe and clown act.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Expertly mixes thrills and laughter.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This one looks like a sure bet for seven weeks (at least) of audience good fortune.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Chan looks as if he's having fun and it rubs off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

One dazzling feat of derring-do follows another, defying descriptions in the speed and bravura of Chan's martial artistry.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The plots for most Chan movies are glorified coat hangers on which to drape elaborate fights and sight gags. Shanghai Noon is slightly more sophisticated, but it still treats plot twists and peripheral characters as impositions.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The typical machinations of an event movie dictate multiple overblown climaxes that leave one less than bowled over.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Shanghai Noon, which lacks Rush Hour's manic energy, also lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story.

| Original Score: C | Jan 1, 2000

Gough and Millar pepper the story with enough silly gags and droll one-liners that it's easy enough to stay alert between Chan's chest kicks and balletic twirls.

| Jan 1, 2000

Although adherents of Chan's Drunken Master theatrics will no doubt be less than impressed, it's still head and shoulders (and arms and legs) above similar Hollywood skirmishes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

If you see only one martial arts Western this year (and there is probably an excellent chance of that), this is the one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Shanghai Noon lassos up all the revisionist laughs and action scenes that last summer's Wild Wild West botched.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Shanghai Noon is all the lighthearted fun last summer's heavy-metal Wild Wild West wasn't.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's not especially good, but not bad, either.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000