The Medallion

Rating:
Summary: Probably One Of The Worst Films I've Ever Seen
Review: Now don't get me wrong, Jackie Chan is one of my favorite actors of all time and I've loved watching his movies ever since first seeing "Rumble In The Bronx" in the spring of 2001, albeit five years late, and I've come to enjoy many of his other movies but his 2003 outing called "The Medallion" is without a doubt the weakest moive that he's ever starred in and is a major disappointment considering how great many of his others, or even his other subpar films at least had some funny moments. On here however, even the funny momemts are hardly enough to muster up a laugh at all.

Jackie Chan stars as a Hong Kong detective who is investigating a notorious international smuggler who is after a mysterious ancient artifact called The Medallion that resurrects and gives eternal life to those who wear it but a kid who bears it's power is kidnapped by the smugglers and now the Hong Kong detective must rescue him from them and retrieve the artifact before it is used by the ringleaders.

Sadly, being a huge Jackie Chan fan, "The Medallion" is by far the most uninspiring movie that he has ever starred in. Even all of the slapstick stunts are nowhere near as funny as like those in classics like "Rush Hour" or his cult hit "Rumble In The Bronx". There is virtually nothing that inspires laughs like the truck full of childrens play balls falling off the fourth level parking garage in "Rumble In The Bronx" or even those from "The Tuxedo", his weakest movie before this travesty came along.

The acting is absolutely ridiculous and even Jackie's eccentricity that has made him so much fun to watch isn't enough to save this garbage. The acting by almost everyone else doesn't help either. Everything about this movie gives a sense of this having ground already been traveled on countless times without giving it a different light.

I am a major Jackie Chan fan and have been for many years but this is the first time that I have felt really let down by a movie of his. If this is a sign of artistic decay then "The Medallion" is perhaps a crossroad of where Jackie must try to come up with new ideas to bring new magic into his career because this movie has none of that. An outright disappointment.


Rating:
Summary: Physically Painful to Watch
Review: Boy is this thing one of the worst films I have ever seen. I know and accept that a Jackie Chan movie doesn't care much about its story or characters, and using only a thin plot as an excuse to showcase his near superhuman acrobatic and comedic combat skills. However, this film, especially in the early going, is so lifeless and unexciting that it nearly resembles a funeral procession. There is none of that patented Jackie Chan energy and joy anywhere to be found, and he seems to be just going through the motions of movie making. It can't even work as a background distraction and merely annoys with its complete blandness. Worst of all none of the stuntworks were choreographed or filmed with even an ounce of creativity, and simply relegates Jackie to scale tall objects of various types. This is where an infantile script and failed comedy bits come together to murder the film. It's so bad I actually developed chest pains watching it, and I can't say that about too many films. Frankly Jackie deserves better, but perhaps it's a sign for him to retire. The only saving grace is the delicious presence of female lead Claire Forlani, who is perfection personified. Though that illusion works better with the activation of the mute button. I will still take two of her please. Where was I? Yeah, Jackie, hire me to work on your scripts, at least the thing would be watchable without causing any physical harm to your loving worldwide audience.

Rating:
Summary: Thank heavens for small favors.
Review: This movie was AWFUL. And not in a bad-Jackie-Chan-movie-is-good way. This movie was actually horrible. See, there are a few things about bad (good) Jackie Chan movies that the producers apparently forgot.

1) Jackie's character must be named "Jackie."
2) Jackie's character (or "Jackie") must start the movie as a cab driver, or butler, or similarly innocuous occupation, and only get roped into crime-fighting ACCIDENTALLY. This way, he can go half the movie with a confused look on his face.
3) If there are artifacts or other elements of Eastern mythology, they are introduced by a sexy female archaeologist.
4) If there is a sidekick, he must actually be FUNNY (i.e. Owen Wilson).
5) Jackie must appear naked at some point in the movie (actually, they remembered this one).
6) The outtakes ought to show Jackie doing things that would get a regular, non-Jackie-Chan person killed.

I am disappointed to say that this is one of the worst bad movies I've seen in a while. However, in watching the deleted scenes on the DVD, I find that the directors spared us from an even WORSE movie. So thank goodness for that.

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: Jackie Chan is funny but all his movies are the same. Plus, they get worse every year. This one takes the cake-I can't remember last time i was this bored. This is his worst movie to date. May be he should retire.

Rating:
Summary: the medallion is great
Review: yes this was a very good jackie chan movie. since the action is fun too watch. and the movie was somewhat funny.

Rating:
Summary: Worst Chan Movie Ever
Review: I haven't seen every Jackie Chan movie, but I've seen many of them and this is the worst. I've never walked out of a film before, not even considered it, but opening night I was there to support Jackie, and half-way in I nearly got up and left. Bad, really, really bad.