Shanghai Surprise 1986 123movies

Watch: Shanghai Surprise 1986 123movies, Full Movie Online – Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai..
Plot: Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
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Ratings:

	3.2/10 Votes: 5,512
	20% | RottenTomatoes
	16/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 56 Popularity: 8.47 | TMDB

Reviews:

Dreary, dreadful romantic comedy
“Shanghai Surprise” is an idiotic, out-of-date, poorly-acted, campy action film that wants to be a romantic comedy. Madonna, in her second starring role, had about enough acting talent at this point as a doll. Unfortunately, the doll in this movie comes off looking better than she does.

Madonna, playing a missionary (!) nurse (!!) for a Shanghai mission, is in search of opium (!!!) for medicinal purposes (!!?!!) approaches Sean Penn, an American soldier-of-fortune type who happens to speak Chinese. Penn and Madonna, who were married at the time this film were made, are obviously uncomfortable with the material and do little to justify the film’s existence. Penn mugs his way through and attempts to crach a few weak jokes, while Madonna stamps her foot and places her hands on her hips as she squeaks (yes, she squeaks, and you must hear it to believe it) in frustration.

The plot is absolutely ridiculous — Madonna and Sean Penn chasing after a mysterious cargo of opium known as “Faraday’s Flowers” (incidentally, the name of the book this movie is based on) must run from a Chinese gangster with porcelain hands, have a romantic interlude with an Imperial concubine, teach baseball skills to another Chinese gangster, and (boy, aren’t we surprised) sleep together to seal a deal.

This movie, like “Mommie Dearest” or “Plan Nine From Outer Space” has immense camp value because it’s so deliciously awful. Utterly predictable, insipid, and full of instantly forgettable lines, this movie is the equivalent of the yellow stuff they stick on your nachos at the movie theatres — it’s not really good enough to be real cheese, but it’s much cheaper and tastes pretty much the same anyway. This movie isn’t even cheesy enough to be cheesy.

Avoid “Shanghai Surprise” unless, like me, you like Madonna WAY too much or if you’re just a fan of bad movies.

not even good enough to qualify as laughably bad
Tinsel town’s (then) favorite bride and groom consummated their marriage with this abysmal comedy adventure, an aborted Indiana Jones rip-off set in (of all places) romantic China during the Japanese occupation. The project was obviously an excuse for a paid honeymoon abroad, but no amount of fun and games could possibly validate such an insult to the intelligence, which would have us accept Sean Penn as a romantic hero and Madonna as the chaste and innocent daughter of a local missionary, a joke of bad casting even her most loyal fans would have trouble defending (she can’t play the role, at any rate). Ex-Beatle George Harrison obviously saw the film as an opportunity to peddle some forgettable songs, and using his producer’s credit he was able to put his distinctive warble in every other scene. Bottom line: life is too short to waste even 90 minutes of it watching indulgent crap like this.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 17000000
Revenue 2315683
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Director Jim Goddard
Writer John Kohn, Robert Bentley, Tony Kenrick
Actors Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 win & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Camera and Lenses
Laboratory S&P Film Laboratories, Hong Kong (processing), Technicolor, London, UK (processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm