Sequel to the popular 2001 SHANGHAI NOON, KNIGHTS doesn’t really take the effort to establish any sort of plot, but really, how much does that matter?

KNIGHTS takes place seemingly a year or two after the original. Chon Wang (Chan) is now the Sheriff of Nevada City and Roy O’Bannon (Wilson) is living the high life in New York City. He has become popular through outlandish books written about him (including such feats as killing mummies and the like) and is supposedly holding some of Chon’s money from their first adventure. Chon receives a letter from his sister in China and finds out his father has been murdered. His sister followed the killer to London, so Chon goes to NYC in hopes of getting his share of the money to sail to London and find the killer.

Chon arrives in NYC, finds Roy and… well after this point, kiss any serious ideas of a plot goodbye. What the audience is left with is pure silliness standing in for story – and that’s find and dandy. Chon and Roy have misadventures aplenty both in NYC and in London, we meet Chon’s sister (the stunning Wong), kick some ass, act goofy as all hell, and Jackie even gets to fight the great Donnie Yen at the end of the film (one of the highlights).

Some of Jackie’s fights are pretty creative (as always); one of them involves an umbrella, wooden boxes and several goons, another a revolving door, a hat and several goons. The grand finale finds Chon and Roy on Big Ben – a salute to Buster Keaton – one of Jackie’s heroes. Silly stuff, but quite fun in the end. As fun as the first? Na, but who cares; check it out.