Shanghai Knights (2003)
Directed by David Dobkin
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
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But, borrowing an idea from the great 1951 film Strangers on a Train, Rathbone trades crimes with Wu Yip (Donnie Yen, from Iron Monkey), who will perform the nine murders in exchange for the seal.
He agreed to swap slayings (a la Hitchcock's "Strangers On a Train") with an ambitiously evil Chinese nobleman ("Iron Monkey's" terrific, deadpan scowling Donnie Yen) who is now obligated to help him become king by killing everyone in line for the throne before him.
…going for a cutesy, heartwarming tone that belongs more to a PG-13 action comedy like "Shanghai Knights" than to a tough, R-rated thriller…