Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan) is a Hong Kong police officer cooperating with Interpol in the capture of a crime lord named AJ "Snakehead" Staul. Snakehead (Julian Sands) 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 (Lee Evans), 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 toDublin, Ireland.
In Ireland, Eddie is assigned to help Interpol with the investigation, much to Watson's chagrin. Eddie is also reunited with his girlfriend, a British agent named Nicole James (Claire Forlani). By chance Eddie later encounters one of Snakehead's top men. After catching him, he confesses Jai is being held in the harbour. Eddie, Watson, and Nicole move to rescue Jai, defeating several Snakehead agents in the process. Eddie and Jai end up trapped inside a container, which is knocked into the water by one of Snakehead's men before they can be released. Eddie keeps Jai alive by an inflatable tent, but himself drowns. After being rescued, Jai uses his medallion on Eddie's body. In the morgue, Watson is grieving over Eddie's body when he suddenly appears beside him. Eddie realizes Jai used the medallion to resurrect him, and his former body vanishes into nothingness. Jai splits the medallion into its two halves, giving one of them to Eddie. Snakehead's men appear in the hospital to recapture Jai and during the fight, Eddie discovers the medallion has also granted him superhuman strength and immortality.
Jai is captured again by Snakehead. He is forced to use the medallion on Snakehead, but with only one half of it, he gains superhuman strength but is still mortal. Snakehead and his men attack Watson's family and steal the other half of the medallion. Eddie, Watson and Nicole learn Snakehead's hideout is in a castle called "Raven's Keep" and go to finish him once and for all. The operation runs smoothly at first, but Snakehead kills Nicole and has become immortal. He and Eddie engage in a vicious fight, until Eddie uses the medallion to take away the life it gave, and Snakehead is destroyed. Jai allows Eddie to use the medallion to resurrect Nicole, who also gains super-strength and immortality. The two run off into the distance, and Jai enters a portal to another world.
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