In 1881 Chon Wang is a Chinese imperial guard in the Forbidden City. When Princess Pei-Pei is kidnapped by deception and taken to the United States, the emperor sends three soldiers and the interpreter of the royal family overseas to save her.
Behind the kidnapping of the girl there is the perfidious Lo Pong, former guard of the exiled sovereign on charges of treason, who manages a slave trade of his compatriots in the wild west and has made an agreement with the sheriff of Carson City, the cruel Nathan Van Cleef .
Wang leaves with his uncle to participate in the mission and arrives in Nevada, where the gang of outlaws led by Roy O ’Bannon targets the train on which the eastern party was traveling. Following the attempted robbery, the protagonist ends up separating from the rest of the group and joins O ‘Bannon, giving life to an unprecedented couple who will combine cooked and raw before completing the assigned task.
At the beginning of the new millennium, Jackie Chan continues her successful journey in Hollywood cinema with a sui generis comedy set in the old west, in which she shares the scene with Owen Wilson’s “slap face”: a duo that works by mutual alchemy and instills a genuine sympathy in the viewer, intent during the two hours of viewing to witness a series of physical gags and jokes that play on cultural differences.
Choreographically less inspired than other films starring the acrobatic actor with almond eyes, Chinese Bullets focuses on pure fun by revisiting the archetypes of the vein in a playful way, risking overdoing it in some passages but bringing home the sufficiency without too many problems.
