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Shanghai Knights is an action-comedy movie released on 03 February, 2003. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon
. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Tagline: A Royal Kick In The Arse.

Story

The film opens in the Forbidden City of 1887, where Chon Lin (Fann Wong) is drinking tea with her father, the keeper of the Imperial Seal of China. She tells him her brother, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), is doing well as a sheriff in Carson City, Nevada, United States, but her father replies that he no longer has a son. At that moment, Lord Nelson Rathbone (Aidan Gillen), leads a band of Boxers into the city, who attack the keeper of the seal. Rathbone kills him with a snake-shaped dagger, and leaves with the seal. As he lies dying, he gives Lin a puzzle box and a note.

Back in the Wild West, Chon Wang is doing well as sheriff, having captured an impressive array of fugitives. His deputy is relaxing with a book called Roy O'Bannon Vs. The Mummy, a highly fictionalized account of the events of the first film that now includes Wang's “Shanghai Kid” as a cowardly sidekick, and a Mummy with an army of Undead leading the assault on the Mission. Wang tells him “those stories are all lies,” but the deputy responds that author Sage McAllister bases all of his stories on eyewitness accounts. Wang checks the coach from California, but his lover, Princess Pei Pei (portrayed by Lucy Liu in the first film), is, yet again, not there. She is busy, he explains to the driver, as a social activist in San Francisco on behalf of Chinese immigrants. Wang does receive a parcel, though, which contains the puzzle box and a note from Lin explaining what happened and that she has left to England to pursue Lord Rathbone.

He travels to New York City to find his old partner Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), who has left his brief stint in law enforcement, broken off his romance with Falling Leaves (due to the language barrier, according to a deleted scene on the DVD), spent most of the Imperial gold investing in the Zeppelin, and is now a hotel waiter. After they attempt prostitution to pay for a trip to England, the Mayor of New York arrives in search of his daughters, who O'Bannon has been romancing. Wang fights off a number of New York police officers, and he and Roy simply ship themselves to London in a crate. On the way, Wang tells Roy about his father, and Roy swears an oath to help find Lin, reclaim the seal, and kill Rathbone.

In London, Chon and O'Bannon have their jacket and watch stolen, respectively, by a number of street toughs including a young boy named Charlie. After an extensive battle to reclaim these items, they are arrested by the police. In Scotland Yard, Inspector Artie Doyle thanks the two for defeating the street gang. He tells Wang that Lin is also in Scotland Yard, having attempted to kill Lord Rathbone and been dubbed “Looney Lin.” Doyle is a reader of the Roy O'Bannon novels, and is enthralled to meet the actual O'Bannon. Roy tries to use this to get Lin released, but it doesn't work. He and Wang wander through London, seeing Buckingham Palace and harassing one of the guards. They encounter Charlie again, who lets them into the empty house of a nobleman. Roy relaxes and draws up a childish plan to catapult themselves into Rathbone's castle. Charlie throws it in the fire as he notices that their nobleman has an invitation to a gala at the castle.

Roy and Wang don disguises: Roy masquerades as Admiral “Sherlock Holmes” (a name he derives from the face of a clock), and Wang is the “Maharaja of Nevada.” After eating Spotted Dick, Wang and Roy follow Lord Rathbone to a private library. Once they enter, they cannot find him; he has slipped through a secret passage, which Wang discovers in a fireplace. As Roy occupies himself with a copy of the Kama Sutra, Wang enters the secret room, which contains treasures from throughout the British Empire. Rathbone's guards attack Roy, but he is rescued by Lin, who has escaped from Scotland Yard. The three see Rathbone hand the bloody dagger that killed Wang and Lin's father to Wu Chow (Donnie Yen), the bastard younger brother of the Emperor of China. Rathbone sees them and sets fire to the building, young Charlie shows up and makes off with the Seal, Lin escapes through the roof, and Wang and Roy commandeer Rathbone's primitive automobile (the very technology Roy had passed on investing on) for a wild ride, culminating in them crashing into Stonehenge.

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