Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Shanghai English Movie 2009I was in the minority of critics that actually gave Jackie Chan’s last buddy picture The Tuxedo a passing grade. Sure, the plot is a throwaway and as Chan’ s super-spy partner, Jennifer Love Hewitt is a complete miscast. But thanks to Chan’s great charisma, the movie transcends its doldrums. So with Shanghai Knights, the follow up to the entertaining Shanghai Noon, I feared this buddy story would suffer from similar inadequacies.
Last night I caught the new John Cusack film Shanghai, which isn’t out until September. It was actually pretty good. We were told it was something of a work in progress, with editing, score and some potentially big cuts still to be made, and they were fielding audience opinion at the end.
Shanghai is directed by Mikael Håfström, the Swede behind Derailed and another Cusack movie, 1408. It also stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (yes, The Comedian from Watchmen), Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li (Memoirs of a Geisha) and David Morse (the killer in Disturbia, bad cop in 16 Blocks).
Overall it was solid. The plot was pretty hard to follow, especially going into it without any prep whatsoever. It’s a WW2 drama taking place right before America joins the war, before Japan attacks China and Pearl Harbor. John Cusack and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are spies for America in Shanghai trying to figure out what Japan is doing there.
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John Cusack’s cover is a journalist, and throughout the movie he kicks a lot of butt. I was a little taken aback at first because I didn’t think a journalist could be so bad ass, but when it’s revealed it’s just a front it makes a bit more sense.
Morgan gets involved with the mistress of Japan’s army commander and gets wind of attack plans on Pearl Harbor. He passes this on to Cusack who tries to gather enough evidence to prove it to his superiors. He gets involved with a local Mafia head (Chow Yun-Fat) and his wife (Gong Li) and together they try to piece together what Japan and Germany are up too.
It was surprisingly action packed - I thought it was going to be a long, drawn out drama swamped with romantic subplots. It was a really clean (no foul language, no boobies, only minor drug usage kids) action drama. I wasn’t quite convinced by Cusack as a lethal weapon - I know he did Grosse Pointe Blank but he usually plays writers in his films, or some heartbroken guy who can’t find love. The scenery is spectacular, Shanghai itself looks amazing, and there are some great fight scenes. Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li both put in good work. I wasn’t bored during Shanghai, but part of the time was spent trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: John Cusack, Yun-Fat Chow, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, David Morse, Franka Potente, Ken Watanabe
In Theaters:
Starring:     John Cusack
Gong Li
Ken Watanabe
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Chow Yun-Fat
Rinko Kikuchi
Daniel Lapaine
Michael Culkin
Director:     Mikael Hafstrom
Genre:     Drama
Synopsis:
Rating:     R for strong violence, some drug use and brief language
Studio:     The Weinstein Company
In Theaters:     Estimated for October 2009
Starring:     John Cusack
Gong Li
Ken Watanabe
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Chow Yun-Fat
Rinko Kikuchi
Daniel Lapaine
Michael Culkin
Director:     Mikael Hafstrom
Genre:     Drama
Synopsis:
Rating:     R for strong violence, some drug use and brief language
Studio:     The Weinstein Company