A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
- Lester
- (as Anthony Wong)
Siu-Ming Lau
- Antiquerium Dealer
- (as Lau Siu Ming)
Diana C. Weng
- Undercover Woman
- (as Diana Weng)
Wai-Cheung Mak
- Monk
- (as Mak Wai Cheung)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording to tour guides at Dublin Castle in Ireland, Jackie Chan hopped onto the throne during filming. This made him the first person to sit on the throne since King George V.
- GoofsInterpol has no investigative branch/field agents. The investigative police of the European Union is called Europol. Interpol solely compiles and distributes intelligence gathered by local and federal EU member state police agencies, much like the US FBI, except the FBI has field agents to also gather information and investigate crimes.
- Quotes
[Looking at his own corpse]
Eddie Yang: Is my nose really that big?
- Crazy creditsOuttakes from the film are shown during the closing credits, ending with a shot of Eddie and Nicole flying through the air away from the castle.
- SoundtracksCue the Pulse to Begin
Written by Richard Jankovich
Performed by Burnside Project
Courtesy of Bar None Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group
Featured review
Why do US Film Companies want to ruin Jackie?
Now Jackie Chan's "The Medallion" wasn't going to be a masterpiece no matter what they did to it--it's just plain goofy and there's no way around that fact. But I just watched the deleted scenes on the DVD and it is obvious that the unbelievably dumb, painfully incomprehensible, sub-Tuxedo flick we all saw last summer could have been much better.
It is such an odd situation. After years of American companies complaining that Jackie's Hong Kong films dealt too much with action and not enough with plot, the tables seem to have turned. Jackie's US partners in this project, Columbia-Tri Star, had the final cut on this one and for some reason they decided to cut out virtually all the scenes of plot exposition or character development. I mean, you watch the stuff they took out and you say "so THAT'S what was supposed to be going on!" Like I said before, even restored this would be a wacky kid's movie, but it at least would have made sense according to its own rules and the world it created, the way Spy Kids or the Wizard of Oz did. The version we got in the theatres was practically a "worst of" collection of clips!
We need a "director's cut," and if they put one out in Asia, I'll be the first on Ebay ready to buy it.
It is such an odd situation. After years of American companies complaining that Jackie's Hong Kong films dealt too much with action and not enough with plot, the tables seem to have turned. Jackie's US partners in this project, Columbia-Tri Star, had the final cut on this one and for some reason they decided to cut out virtually all the scenes of plot exposition or character development. I mean, you watch the stuff they took out and you say "so THAT'S what was supposed to be going on!" Like I said before, even restored this would be a wacky kid's movie, but it at least would have made sense according to its own rules and the world it created, the way Spy Kids or the Wizard of Oz did. The version we got in the theatres was practically a "worst of" collection of clips!
We need a "director's cut," and if they put one out in Asia, I'll be the first on Ebay ready to buy it.
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- curtis-8
- Feb 23, 2004
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- Highbinders
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- Budget
- $41,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,219,192
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,111,324
- Aug 24, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $34,268,701
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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