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The Medallion
2003
Jackie Chan is back in action with THE MEDALLION, yet another fast-paced martial arts action-comedy. Chan plays Eddie Yang, a Hong Kong cop who is working with Interpol officer Arthur Watson (Lee Evans) in order to protect a gifted young child. Aware that the child holds a centuries-old medallion that could give him limitless .. Read more
| Starring | Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands |
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| Director | Gordon Chan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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The Medallion
Jackie Chan is back in action with THE MEDALLION, yet another fast-paced martial arts action-comedy. Chan plays Eddie Yang, a Hong Kong cop who is working with Interpol officer Arthur Watson (Lee Evans) in order to protect a gifted young child. Aware that the child holds a centuries-old medallion that could give him limitless powers, Snakehead (Julian Sands) and his band of criminals kidnap the child and head for Dublin. It isn't long before Eddie arrives in Ireland where he is teamed up with beautiful Interpol officer Nicole James (Claire Forlani), who also happens to be a former flame. Together Eddie, Nicole, and the bumbling Watson manage to track down the child, but after an accident in which Eddie appears to have died, it's up to the gifted boy to put the trusty medallion to work and resuscitate him.
While Chan appears to have lost a bit of a bounce from his early days, he still pulls off moves that would leave most actors flatfooted. This time around, director Gordon Chan uses special effects alongside superstar choreographer Sammo Hung's action sequences, giving the audience a double dose of adrenaline. As is the case with most Chan films, hilarious outtakes and bloopers accompany the film's closing credits.
| Starring | Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, Julian Sands |
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| Director | Gordon Chan |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Mar 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Given that plot is never a key element of Jackie Chan's oeuvre, it's no surprise that only two elements really matter: the chemistry between the two inevitable buddies/partners and the quality of the action. Sadly both are well below par in this Dublin-set farrago. Chan stars as cop Eddie Yang, whose search for evil crimelord Snakehead (Julian Sands) leads to the discovery of an ancient medallion and a kidnapped boy, who does little but sit unnaturally still and look inscrutable. Inexplicably semi-dubbed and looking like it was edited on a bacon slicer, this barely releasable mess couldn't possibly get any worse until Lee Evans deftly applies the tin lid with an excruciatingly irritating performance (surely the last gasp of his unlikely movie career). Even Chan's undoubted screen charm can't rescue this inept mess.
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Chan and Evans flounder before sinking without trace in a narrative that is at best confused and more often incomprehensible.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Entertaining
The film was exciting, entertaining and funny. The special effects were outstanding and Jackie Chan was his usual exciting athletic self. This film is certainly not boring.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Thank you for Claire Forlani
I was really dissapointed by this film, normally I find Jacki Chan films entertaining, but I think Mr chan is getting a bit too old for this genre. Lee Evans is not very good as the comedy element, trying to imitate Rowan Atkinson a little too much. One of the main reasons (and a sad one at that) was to hear and see a very British Claire Forlani for the first time. She does normally make a very convincing american. But British actors playing americans is becoming an all too common occurance, unless their cast as the bad guy
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