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The Medallion is a 2003 action comedy film directed by Gordon Chan. It stars Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, and Julian Sands. Alfred Cheung and Jackie Chan produced the movie. The film originates from the United States and Hong Kong, with English as its original language. Narrative events take place in the Republic of Ireland.
Distributed by TriStar Pictures and Netflix, the film has a runtime of 88 minutes. It was rated PG-13. The production budget was $38,000,000, while the revenue reached $34,300,000. The movie received a review score of 17% and a 4/10 rating. Metascore and MC ratings were both 38. It also holds an IMDb rating of 5.2 based on 45,813 votes. The film received two nominations total.
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5.6A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Cast
- Jackie Chan as Eddie Yang
- Lee Evans as Arthur Watson
- Claire Forlani as Nicole James
- Christy Chung Lai-Tai as Charlotte Watson
- Julian Sands as Snakehead
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as Lester Wong
Themes
- medallion
- martial arts
- leather jacket
- immortality
- detective
- fighter
- wretch
- resurrection
- interpol
- slapstick comedy
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Ratings
IMDb
5.2/10
45,813 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
17%
Metacritic
38/100
- Year
- 2003
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gordon Chan
- Written by
- Bennett Joshua Davlin Alfred Cheung Gordon Chan Bey Logan Paul Wheeler
- Produced by
- Alfred Cheung
- Starring
- Jackie Chan Lee Evans Claire Forlani Julian Sands John Rhys-Davies Anthony Wong Christy Chung
- Cinematography
- Arthur Wong
- Edited by
- Don Brochu Chan Ki-hop
- Music by
- Adrian Lee
- Production company
- Emperor Multimedia Group
- Distributed by
- TriStar Pictures (Theatrical), Screen Gems (Home Video)
- Release dates
- 15 August 2003 ( 2003-08-15 ) (Hong Kong) 22 August 2003 ( 2003-08-22 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Countries
- Hong Kong United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $35–41 million
- Box office
- $34.3 million
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country of origin
- Hong Kong
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Gordon Chan
- Cast member
- Scott Adkins
- Producer
- Jackie Chan
- Cinematographer
- Arthur Wong
- Narrative location
- Republic of Ireland
- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 100365
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/themedallion/index.html
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Encyclopedic overview
The Medallion (Chinese: 飛龍再生/免死金牌) is a 2003 buddy action comedy film directed by Hong Kong film director Gordon Chan, who also wrote the screenplay with Bennett Joshua Davlin, Bey Logan, Paul Wheeler, and Alfred Cheung, who also produced.
The film stars Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Claire Forlani, and Julian Sands. It was much less successful than Chan's other American films such as the Rush Hour film series, Shanghai Noon, and its sequel, Shanghai Knights. The film was theatrically released on 15 August 2003 in Hong Kong and 22 August 2003 in the United States by TriStar Pictures. However, on the home media release, it was released by Screen Gems.
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