A total travesty
I recently rented this movie and turned it off after 15 minutes or so (after the first fight with some London thugs.) I enjoyed Shanghai Noon or I wouldn't have rented the sequel. I enjoy Jackie Chan movies in general as well. So what was wrong with this sequel? The music. Yes, it is strange to condemn a movie for the music but the pieces chosen to accompany the fight scenes threw me into the mindset of a carnival or Mary Poppins scene, not an action movie. Just awful. Such misplaced ambiance combined with some horribly cliched, randomly inserted one-liners by Owen Wilson forced me to pull the plug.