The rest was rather a mess. The Watson character was too much of an idiot and I don’t like screwballs; plus everybody at Interpol knew he was an idiot so why exactly is he still working there and why was he so important in this mission since he did nothing??
The fights with superpowers were boring and not very well done.
It starts in Hong Kong, with policeman Eddie working with an Interpol squad led by Watson. He’s incompetent and doesn’t get anywhere. The bad guy Snakehead wants a child with mysterious powers, but Eddie comes into the temple ruining his plans. Believing that the child is in danger because of the fire, Eddie saves him, but later the child is abducted. When they meet again Eddie is not able to free him and the child is taken to Dublin. Eddie goes there and has to work with Watson and with ex-girlfriend Nicole (well, they haven’t seen each other in three months and he hasn’t called her, I guess that makes them ex). Watson has a wife and kid who apparently think he’s a librarian.
They find out when and where the child is about to arrive and go waiting for the ship to arrive. There’s a fight, and both Eddie and the child gets trapped inside a container and thrown into the sea. Eddie tries to save the child but himself ends up drowning. When they are finally taken out, they all think he’s dead but the child touches him with his magic medallion and leaves the medallion in his pocket.
At the morgue, Eddie comes alive again, next to his old body who then disintegrates. They go to see the child at the hospital and Eddie gives the medallion back, but the child leaves half of it with him.
When the bad guys come to abduct the child again, Eddie fights with them discovering that he has superpowers and also that he’s immortal. The child goes home with Nicole, but is later abducted again, and everybody finds out that Eddie is alive.
Snakehead now has the child, and his plan is simple. He poisons himself in front of the kid dying instantly, sure that the child’s religion or philosophy or whatever will force him to save his life even if he knows that he’s a bad guy and will use his powers to do evil. His plan works, but he’s not yet immortal because he’s been touched only by half of the medallion, so he goes looking for the other half. Fearing for his family, Watson and Eddie goes to his home immediately. When the bad guys attack, they fight back, surprisingly helped by Watson’s wife Charlotte who has weapons hidden in the house and is really really good. Forget Nicole, Charlotte is awesome.
Now they leave for Snakehead’s fortress, but trying to save the child Nicole is killed - well, she was supposed to be smarter than Watson and yet when the child put the medallion in her hand she threw it away... why did she do that? So she has no defence when Snakehead kills her.
Eddie and Snakehead both have superpowers and they fight in the air, making a mess, until the child yells to Eddie to use the medallion to take Snakehead’s life (it gives life but it can also take life).
I thought the child was forced, or drawn or whatever, to save lives, and not to take them...
Anyway, it works and Snakehead’s face in now screaming on the medallion - does that mean that nobody else was ever killed by it since his face is the only one there? :-/
Eddie uses it to save Nicole and the child goes away entering some kind of portal, so I guess Nicole and Eddie are now the medallion’s guardians. They both have superpowers now and go away flying into the air... :-/ boring.
Two long scenes in the first half were good, the fight with the guys on the ship before they take away the child, and the chase in Dublin, when Eddie chases the black guy to know from him when the child is set to arrive. Those were good and fun.
Eddie-Jackie Chan
Nicole-Claire Forlani
Watson-Lee Evans
Snakehead-Julian Sands
Charlotte-Christy Chung
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