Metacritic reviews

A hugely entertaining and more lavishly mounted follow-up to 2000's "Shanghai Noon," the high-concept East-meets-Western that first teamed top-billed duo, pic rides even taller in the saddle as a fleet and funny crowd-pleaser.

Bounds from one gag to another like an eager puppy.

Despite his advancing years, Chan delivers some fleet slapstick; like his hero Buster Keaton he works intuitively with levers, pulleys, ladders, and umbrellas.

This is a movie where you can just sit back and revel in it, warts and all.

It's a gimcrack assemblage of gags, action scenes, favorite moments from the first hit and diorama-like views of high and low Victorian culture.

Uproarious imbecility.

The adventure-book pace and topsy-turvy English setting evoke the feel of Stephen Sommers's "Mummy" films.

A machine for killing time, and it does so fairly painlessly.

Why would the writers bother with narrative when the story is just something that kills time, and brain cells, between feats and fists of fury?

Grating.