Jackie Chan in the Old West... that sounds like a good idea, and it is. Unfortunately, what came of it is an uneasy mix of post-modern, self-referential archness and spaghetti Western bravado. Chan stars as Chon Wang (bad running gag: sounds like "John Wayne"), a palace guard from China's Forbidden City who's dispatched to America to rescue a kidnapped princess (a suitably regal Lucy Liu). Before the never-in-doubt denouement, Chon bonds with anachronistically wisecracking, outlaw-wannabe Roy O'Bannon (Owen
Wilson); marries the Indian princess of a tribe that refers to him as Husband Who Fights in Dress; runs afoul of a psychotic sheriff (Xander Berkeley) coincident...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
105 mins