Storyline
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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Cast
Michael Culkin, Franka Potente, Benedict Wong, David Morse, Ronan Vibert, Wolf Kahler, Gemma Chan, John Cusack, Chow Yun-Fat, Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Rinko Kikuchi, Hugh Bonneville, Andy On, Race Wong, Rosanne Wong, Hon Ping Tang, Christopher Buchholz, Nicholas Rowe, Yennis Cheung, Valentine Fillol-Cordier
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Reviews
50
At least Gong is ravishing, which occasionally takes your mind off the gibberish that is going full tilt around her.
50
Pulp without style: Shanghai has many of the staples of noir—back alleys, shadowy figures, hard-boiled narration, and more femmes fatales than a viewer could keep track of—but none of the atmosphere or cool.
50
Shanghai is an exercise in retro glamour, alluring decadence and tough-guy posing, all of which it delivers in sufficient quantities.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
The mystery is muddled, the romance is tepid and scenes that should be electric with tension are almost dull.
50
The spectacular international cast... bring a lot of life to the movie’s uncooperative story material.
