Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon came close and made him a ... entertainingly ridiculous romp tailor-made for Chan and Owen Wilson. It has the anarchic high spirits of Richard Lester's Three Musketeers.

Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu. The film, marking the directorial debut of Tom Dey, was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. A sequel, Shanghai Knights, was released in 2003, with David Dobkin as ...