: The Medallion
I’d heard this was a poor Jackie Chan film, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected. Sure many of the special effects were digital, but they needed to be with this kind of plot. The idea is that there’s this ancient medallion and it can bring you back to life after death and give you supernatural abilities, and so those abilities had to be done digitally. The bigger problem with the movie is that it doesn’t get to the main plot point until nearly half-way through (that’s when Jackie dies) which makes the first half seem rather pointless. (Why not just get to him dying right away?) The tone of the film is also odd: one of the minor characters at the beginning, an overplayed idiot, turns out to be a major character and one of the good guys (I never would have guessed from the initial scenes). Since he’s the only person in the whole movie playing for slapstick comedy, his scenes, while funny on their own, really clash with the rest of the “serious” film. The movie’s got a few fun moments, a few neat effects, but is generally quiet forgettable, but that’s not unlike most Jackie Chan movies.
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