The Medallion is a 2003 action-comedy film co-written and directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Gordon Chan, and starring Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, and Claire Forlani. It was much less successful than Chan's other American movies such as the Rush Hour film series, Shanghai Noon and its sequel, Shanghai Knights. Eddie Yang is a Hong Kong police officer cooperating with Interpol in the capture of a crime lord named AJ "Snakehead" Staul. Snakehead buys an ancient book from a Chinese bookstore keeper. It is the story of a boy being chosen every thousand years, to bind the two halves of a legendary... medallion. In Hong Kong, a team of Interpol agents, led by Agent Arthur Watson , are preparing to capture Snakehead and his men, who are planning to kidnap the boy. Eddie and the Interpol agents fight Snakehead's men inside a temple where the boy, named Jai, is kept. Jai is saved but Snakehead and his men escape. Two weeks later, Jai is captured and is held aboard a cargo boat in Hong Kong. Eddie and a team of Hong Kong Police agents engage and defeat several of Snakehead's men, but he and a few others escape with Jai to Dublin, Ireland.
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| Release date: | August 22, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Gordon Chan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alfred Cheung |
| Editor: | Ki-hop Chan, Don Brochu |
| Music by: | Adrian Lee |
| Cinematography: | Arthur Wong |
| Screenplay by: | Bey Logan, Bennett Joshua Davlin, Paul Wheeler, Alfred Cheung, Gordon Chan |
| Estimated budget: | $41,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller |