“The Medallion” Blu-ray Cover
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray for The Medallion (read our review), a 2003 Jackie Chan (The Foreigner, Bleeding Steel) fantasy-actioner directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Gordon Chan (God of War, Thunderbolt).
In The Medallion (aka Highbinders), Chan plays Eddie, a Hong Kong detective who works with a lovely Interpol agent (Claire Forlani, Mall Rats) and the bumbling agent Watson (Lee Evans, The Fifth Element) to try to rescue a boy from the clutches of the villainous Snakehead (Julian Sands, Warlock).
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Is the $8.99 what we receive for watching it?
Goddamn, I honestly think this is Jackie’s worst movie. (Even more so than his worst HK flicks.)
Lee Evans is normally funny, but his “comedy” here was annoying and cringe inducing. Jackie and Claire Forlani had awful chemistry, (She had awful stunt doubling) dubbing the other Asian actors was stupid, and to top it all off, the undercranking, choppy editing, and shitty wirework ruined the action.
This didn’t have to be a traditional Jackie Chan film. Just a simply good one.
Oh come on guys. Just trying to help out Forlani with some royalty fees. 🙂
I thought I was helping by buying multiple copies of Meet Joe Black and renting Precious Cargo. lol
That’s $8.99 more than anyone should ever pay for this abomination.
lol there’s a JC library completist somewhere out there.
this movie had so many problems, i remember being given a shooting script and commenting on how certain scenes were shall we say reminiscent your honour, its a homage! of scenes in the Treat Williams Joe Piscopo action horror DEAD HEAT but watered down and done badly… i shot a lot of behind the scenes on this for Sammo, and the movie was just all over the place, not helped by the madness of starting the shoot in Northern Ireland, then they went off and shot Tuxedo, then they came back to shoot the HK interiors etc then the Thailand stuff, in the midst of which Jackie’s mother passed away and i think that really affected him (production should have gone on hold for a few weeks)…Gordon Chan i think wasn’t in full control, Jackie and Sammo teamed up to do what they wanted and with a very loose script it got messy…. hence when Columbia Tristar bought it, they had to do additional reshoots including the opening where Jackie is rocking the Shanghai Knights hairdo…..to try and fix holes in the plot…. and it all got lost in the mix
Arahan was the right way to do a movie about someone suddenly becoming a kung fu superhero, not a movie where prior to becoming a meta-human, Chan is able to defy gravity in the chase through the Dublin streets etc
I enjoyed Arahan a lot! I’m glad I got that OOP box set.