2003 · thriller · fantasy · action
The Medallion
Directed by Gordon Chan1h 28m2003
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
Our read: The Medallion (2003) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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