Shanghai Surprise Reviews

Obviously, this movie has an awful reputation but, in spite of all this, since I'm a huge fan of Sean Penn, I still wanted to see this flick. Eventually, the end results was indeed pretty bad and it must be the worst movie starring Sean Penn so far. Where should I start? The music was way too cheesy which was rather surprising since George Harrison wrote five songs for this movie, the whole story was just a mess and the directing was really weak. At least, I thought that Sean Penn was not so bad but Madonna's performance was just horrendous. Above all, she was completely miscast and she was completely unbelievable in this part. The funny thing is that the whole thing actually had some potential. Indeed, I really liked the material and I believe it could have been pretty good. In fact, they could have made a nice exotic film noir but instead, they chose to give every 5 minutes some very lame joke and they completely missed the right tone for this material. To conclude, this movie really deserves its bad rep, the whole thing was pretty bad and it is really not worth a look whatsoever.