Shanghai Noon

Jackie Chan plays a Chinese man who travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.

• Director:Tom Dey
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Western
• Runtime:106 minutes

Cast

Jackie Chan : Chon Wang
Owen Wilson : Roy O’Bannon
Lucy Liu : Princess Pei Pei
Brandon Merrill : Indian Wife
Roger Yuan : Lo Fong

Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is an imperial guard of China. After Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who Wang has affection for, is abducted by Calvin Andrews (Jason Connery) and taken to the United States, the Emperor of China sends three of his bravest guards to retrieve her. Wang is not among one of the three, but after he tells them that it was his fault the princess was kidnapped, he is sent merely in the hopes that the “foreign devils” would get rid of Wang for China. In Nevada, Roy O’Bannon (Owen Wilson) is an outlaw who, with his gang, hijacks the train Wang is on. When Wallace (Walton Goggins), a member of Roy’s gang, kills Wang’s uncle, Wang chases the outlaws down. However, the gang is well-armed and Wang’s only choice is to unhinge the cars and get away on the engine. In the process, Wallace takes over the gang from Roy, and they leave him buried up to his chin in the desert sand.

Meanwhile, Pei-Pei, who was tricked into believing she was freely escaping her arranged marriage in China, finds out she has been kidnapped by an agent of Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), who ran away from the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese. Andrews is then killed by Fong when he demands a higher pay.

When Wang finds Roy buried in the sand, he demands to know the direction to Carson City. Roy tells him that the city is on the other side of a mountain. He puts two chop sticks in Roy’s mouth and tells him to dig himself out. When Wang comes out the other side of the mountain, he gets involved with a Native tribe by saving a boy chased by the Crow tribe and ends up reluctantly marrying the tribe chief’s daughter, Falling Leaves (Brandon Merrill), after supposedly having sex with her the night before (due to his Imperial Guard uniform the Native Americans humorously call him Man-Who-Fights-In-Dress). When he and his new wife get to the next town, she promises him that she will look out for him. Inside a tavern in the town, Wang finds Roy and, in anger, starts a fight with him that turns into a barroom brawl. The two of them get sent to prison, and after they escape (thanks to Falling Leaves), they decide that they will become friends. Roy himself was a little motivated by hearing that there was plenty of the Chinese emperor’s gold being exchanged as a ransom for the princess. Roy trains Wang in the ways of the cowboy and also tells him, in response to Wang’s lack of openness, that he is in the West, not the East. Read more

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