July 4, 2006
Great period pic!
Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xin Xin Xiong
The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally tre...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 11, 2000
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September 6, 2009I'm happy to see Jet Li returned to his main character as Wong Fei Hung in this next adventure since part 3. The frequent fight scenes (choreographed by director Sammo Hung) are as exciting as ever. Jet's cool bullet-dodging in the climactic fight is fun, but only real highlight ...( read more)
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July 16, 2009another interesting chapter, closer glimpse of the history between eastern and westeners,hehe....
love huang fei hong!!!
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December 24, 2008Jackie Chan had planned on making Shaghai Noon for years before he eventually did with Owen Wilson. Of those numerous times he attempted it, 1997 was an especially interesting year. While going into production, Sammo Hung and Tsui Hark made Once Upon a Time in China and America, ...( read more)
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December 14, 2007Before Shanghai Noon, Jet Li had a go at making roughly the same film. This one felt a little off, but I really enjoyed the hell out of it.
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September 2, 2007Saw this when I was in spain. Of course it was dubbed to spanish, which I understand badly. Even though it was funny and easy to follow. I was also confused for a while when the characters for no reason at all (from my point of view) failed to understand eachother, untill my span...( read more)
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