Film

Shanghai Noon 2000

Directed by Tom Dey

  • Adventure, Comedy, Western
  • 110 min
  • PG-13

The old west meets the far east.

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

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Resolved, effortless, unpretentious and classical in form.

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43 profiled raters. Loved most by The Thrill Chasers; disliked most by The Provocateurs.

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