Jackie Chan's signature comedy-martial arts shtick never quite blends with a cartoonish story about a powerful ancient amulet that inevitably falls into the wrong hands. Legend has it that every thousand years a baby boy is born with the power to meld together the two halves of the titular talisman; once the medallion is whole, the child can revive the dead and endow them with divine powers, including immortality. Old-school villain Snakehead (Julian Sands) discovers this millennium's boy, Jai (Alex Bao), in a Hong Kong Buddhist temple, and intends to transform himself into a god right then and there. Local cop Eddie Yang (Chan) and bumbling Interpol agent Arthur Wat...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
90 mins