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Shanghai Noon

Shanghai Noon

Adventure · Comedy · Western · 2000

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.

Movie details

Shanghai Noon

“The old west meets the far east.”

2000 Adventure · Comedy · Western 1h 50m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.6 / 10

139.7K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

80 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

77 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Shanghai Noon?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tom Dey

Written by

Alfred Gough · Miles Millar

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

Chon Wang

Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson

Roy O'Bannon

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Princess Pei Pei

Xander Berkeley

Xander Berkeley

Nathan Van Cleef

Roger Yuan

Roger Yuan

Lo Fong

Yu Rongguang

Yu Rongguang

Imperial Guard

Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins

Wallace

Court is in session

Put Shanghai Noon on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Arthouse Gremlin

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.