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The Medallion
(Reviewed September 12, 2003)
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This movie really, really, really, really blows.
Jackie Chan as a leading man, doing actual "acting" and sucking face with the achingly beautiful Claire Forlani? I don't think so. (And how on earth can Forlani end up in both the sublimely surreal "Northfork" and this brain-dead garbage in the same year? You can't say the gal doesn't have range!)
It's no exaggeration to say that this movie should be shown to film-school students as an example of how NOT to make a movie. Chan's command of the English language is pathetic, his would-be comic-foil sidekick Lee Evans is so revoltingly unfunny his scenes are nearly painful to watch, and more than one scene is bafflingly, incomprehensibly wrong in every aspect (such as a retarded music-video-style montage that takes place when Chan and Forlani go to Evans' house for dinner).
Absolutely awful.
Back Row Grade: F
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