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Flying Jackie
The Medallion marks the return of Jackie Chan to his Hong Kong cinema roots and style..sort of..Veteran martial arts HK director Gordon Chan in his first international/English language film manages to add a lot of the action sequences that gave Hong Kong films the cult status enjoyed the world over: the brilliantly executed fights and stunts, with so much jumping and flying off walls (literarly) that will make Spiderman watch in envy.
And of course, Jackie Chan being Jackie Chan, he manages to add his unique comic style to almost every scene he is in.The universal appeal of Chan and his extraordinary abilities both as an actor and as a martial arts master, endears him to the viewers and makes his films highly enjoyable even if the script and direction are not great,(and indeed the script of Medallion is pretty lame, the usual good vs a psycho evil who wants to destroy/control the world, with added Chinese myths to the mould)
Helping Chan fight evil is the highly talented Brit stand up comedian Lee Evans, who is slowly making a name for himself in Hollywood after the success of There is Something About Mary, and Claire Forlani, who not only is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but she does a competent job as Chan's love interest and side kick.
Evil is portrayed by Julian Sands,who does an ok job. Although he is an excellent actor, his choice of some roles dod not help his career.(Remember he has Mercy and Boxing Helena to his name!!)
One refreshing aspect of the film was the choice of Dublin as the setting for the action,instead of London, Paris or Prague that international/American directors mainly choose for any European based plots.
So Medallion is not a film that will blow you away,but it has Jackie Chan doing very well what he does and knows best,it has the angelic Forlani, and action that will keep you entertained throughout its 84 minutes.Not Bad.

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Forgettable
Jackie Chan has really cranked out a lot of movies and I have found some of them quite entertaining with action packed fight scenes, good stories, great stunts, and Chan's self deprecating sense of humor. This is not one of them.

There is not much to the plot - Chan is a Hong Kong cop facing off against a super criminal "Snakehead". Snakehead is after a medallion that is possessed by a kid. The medallion gives people special powers. Snakehead kidnaps the kid and Chan is in the hunt to save the kid and keep the medallion out of Snakehead's hands.

Unfortunately, the plot is awful and makes little sense. The fight scenes are not very good. The movie essentially breaks down into a not very interesting series of vignettes that I could never decide whether they were supposed to be funny, scary, thrilling - they were just plan dumb.

Chan would be better served to make fewer, higher quality movies than to churn out forgettable fare like The Medallion.

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Not one of jackies best.
Maybe it is because I love jackie's earlier movies which he surpassed himself in, but I was very disappointed with this film. Okay, so it's funny in parts but having said this that's about it. I realise that jackie is trying different things in his new films, but for me I preferred the original hong kong movies. I really never thought I would ever give a JC movie 3 stars, but I have to be honest and do so. Sorry jackie. But I am still an avid fan of yours.