Excellent, a Must See

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

My family loves this movie. It has so much good humor and many, many references to other classics that just make one pay attention, much as one has to do with The Princess Bride.Many hilarious moments and Chon's sister kicking the Ripper's butt is one of my personal favorites.Worth buying.I very much wish Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson kept making this series.

Seriously lightweight, this sequel to the better SHANGHAI NOON is very much a mish-mash of all the Jackie Chan films you've ever seen before, albeit with a rich backdrop: London of 1887. So far so good, and the UK capital does look very lavish and spellbinding, if perhaps a little too…clean and Americanised? When will films finally realise that the prostitutes of this period were in their 40s and looked at least twenty years older, thanks to all the diseases and hard lives they lived? Anyway, despite the setting – which is really only present so that the viewer can be inundated with dozens of 'cultural' jokes – it's very much business as usual, as Chan tracks down the murderer of his father, Wilson just kind of ambles along, lots of policemen and villains get involved and things end with a high-rise climax, just like in RUSH HOUR actually.The only thing that makes this film worthwhile is Chan. While the action here is another step down from the kind of frenetic frenzies we remember from the 1980s, Chan's in his element, looking good, sounding good and engaging in some amusing homages to his inspirations – Buster Keaton, SINGING IN THE RAIN, Harold Lloyd and more. He even gets to visit the clock-tower set-piece of PROJECT A, except this time it's done on a far bigger scale, taking place inside Big Ben. My money's still on the earlier film as having the edge, though. Chan's martial arts are limited to some horseplay in some revolving doors and a few small scale fights, where he utilises dozens of props in his battle with multiple opponents – the market dash is another highlight and the emphasis is very much on the scenery rather than Chan's hand-to-hand skills. Saying that, there IS one decent martial arts fight against villain Donnie Yen, a Hong Kong hero in his own right; it is very well choreographed, but the editor keeps cutting away to mundane stuff with Wilson and other characters! Man, if they'd just stuck to a single ten-minute fight scene between these two guys, the film would have probably got the highest mark possible.A big detraction in this film is Wilson, whose lovable persona seems to have been dropped in favour of a bitter bore, whose sole purpose in the film is to flirt with women and make anti-British jokes. Wilson is horribly bad and most British viewers will just want to beat the tar out of him after he just keeps going on and on about how the Americans won the Revolution, tea-drinking, and more…this is the kind of rubbish you hear on Internet forums, not Hollywood films! Still, no doubt American viewers will find it absolutely hilarious. What is even more offensive than the humour is the amount of historical inaccuracies present in the film; Charlie Chaplin becomes a street urchin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suddenly isn't Scottish anymore – let alone the fact that he never was a police detective, the main villain is a poseur with a distinctly non-Victorian hairstyle…the list goes on. I have a horrible suspicion that the teen generation are going to grow up thinking this film spoke the truth, and that the name 'Sherlock Holmes' was invented by a Yankee cowboy… There are one or two entertaining jokes within the movie, including Fann Wong (pretty but oh-so-shallow)'s midnight encounter with Jack the Ripper, and a nice martial arts brawl taking place at Madame Tussaud's, complete with dummies falling to bits and more. But whenever Wilson's on screen, the whole thing just falls flat, and Chan's only half the martial artist he once was, so in hindsight I'd probably give this flick a miss.

The East meets the West again in this sequel, where British Parliament rebel Lord Rathbone (Aidan Gillen) murders Chon Wang's (Jackie Chan) estranged father (Kim Chan) and escapes to England with Wang's Imperial Seal. Chon teams up with Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and sister Chon Lin (Faye Wong) to avenge his father's death and to uncover a plot to murder the royal family.This is another good old fashion western comedy featuring Chan's signature martial arts moves and Wilson's mellow and grandiose personality. The two make a rock-em, sock-em team as they take out bad guy after bad guy, and, put in the martial-arts-skilled Faye Wong in the mix, you got triple the action and fun.Like the first film, the plot is quick-paced, helped by the story's many adventures, cultural references and fast action. More subplots and supporting characters were added to the story such as a young Charlie Chaplin (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), which served as a touching antagonist-turned-sidekick to our three heroes. The Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper references served an interesting twist to the movie, as well as the appearance of Queen Victoria - all contributing to the grandiose and splendor of England back in that time. While I didn't care for Gillen as the lead villain, I enjoyed seeing Donnie Yen as the villainous Wu Chow more. His fight against Chan, pitting martial arts star against martial arts star, is a thrilling display of action cinema. The clash between the east and west cultures continue to be amusing and the slapstick humor and whimsical jokes from the cast made this a continuously entertaining feature.Grade B

More knockabout, period martial arts comedy adventure feel-good action buddy movie nonsense, then.By order of the British Government, Wang's father is killed and, worse still, the Imperial Seal is stolen, an act that is witnessed by Wang's sister Lin, who heads off to London intent on revenge. Before she leaves, she sends a letter to her brother advising him of the wicked deed. Wang arrives in New York to claim the money still owed to him by Roy from the 1st movie, and together they set off for London to help Wang's sister and, perhaps, familiarise themselves with the ladies of Lahndon Tahn.It's neither riotously funny nor dreadfully dreary, coming across as more of the same in every regard.Jackie is watchable as ever, and even Wilson doesn't annoy too much and, for all its silliness, some of the action sequences are actually half decent.If you liked the first one, you will certainly enjoy this too. Just hope to all the Christ's they don't make a third.