Shanghai Surprise

1986

Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 15% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 3.3/10 10 5986 6K

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Plot summary

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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Top cast

Sean Penn as Glendon Wasey
Clyde Kusatsu as Joe Go
Madonna as Gloria Tatlock
Richard Griffiths as Willie Tuttle
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879.37 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.6 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by westpac 2 / 10

unbearably awful

Who thought this up? It must have looked brilliant when they got Sean and Madonna in the same movie. Unfortunately Sean goes through the whole movie looking like a kid pretending he's in a movie and Madonna as usual just plays herself, badly. Nothing to see here, move along folks...
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Reviewed by planktonrules 2 / 10

"It stinks so bad I can't think"....Sean Penn in "Shanghai Surprise"

Back in the 1980s, "Shanghai Surprise" was a notorious stinker...a film EVERYONE seemed to hate. And, with a score of 3.1, it's obvious that even today many people hated the film....and with good reason.

The story is a confusing mess. A missionary girl (??) (Madonna) seeks the help of a ne'er do well (Sean Penn) to locate some jewels or opium (they never seem sure WHICH they are seeking) in China in 1937. All sorts of bad people try to kill them and along the way they take time to have sex (which is quite strange for a missionary who just met this guy).

So why did I hate the film? There were many reasons and the most obvious is Madonna. Her performance mostly consists of her shrieking and whining...to the point where you wonder who, if anyone, would find her character anything other than 100% annoying and hateful. It was much like her poor performance in "Swept Away"...but even worse and more grating. Second, the script was inept....with lots of story elements that simply didn't fit together...such as the missionary girl who boinks the hero AND spends much of the film trying to find opium. What sort of religious mission is this she's running? Our Lady of Perpetual Whining, perhaps?! Third, having the ultimate treasure being opium suggests the 'heroes' want to get rich by selling horribly dangerous drugs...which seems anything other than heroic....and so it's hard to like or care about them. Fourth, the direction was poor and many re-shoots SHOULD have been made (such as any time Madonna opened her mouth). Overall, a painful vanity project with several songs by, of all people, George Harrison! Odd and not enjoyable....just grating.

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