Article: Western promise; SHANGHAI NOON (12).(Features)

THE careers of most action stars take a tumble after they hit the big Four-O

Although he has been a star in Hong Kong for decades, the 46-year-old has struggled to conquer Hollywood.

But he made a breakthrough in last year's Rush Hour - and this fast-paced cowboy comedy seems set to give him his biggest international hit.

It begins in Peking's Forbidden City in 1881, when Princess Pei Pei (Ally McBeal's Lucy Liu) runs away from a marriage to a ...

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