The Medallion

This is an entertaining movie, but by no means is it a complicated movie. But if you get a chance to watch this on DVD, watch the deleted scenes. It looks like they had started off with the intention of filming a much more complicated movie and then changed it entirely to something more lighthearted. It looks like the original title of this movie was Highbinders, probably a take off on Highlander, since this movie deals with immortal supermen. Maybe it was supposed to be a comedic Highlander originally, or something like Eddie Murphy's Golden Child. Perhaps they decided that Golden Child had already been done, and it wasn't that successful, so they edited this down heavily.

In the deleted scenes we see that the Watson character, played by Lee Evans, is even more frantic than he is in this cut. Bordering on Inspector Clouseau even. It even looks like they originally had plans to make a sequel to this movie, and even put a hook at the end of the movie to allow it to continue. But they decided against all that, and made it much less likely to have a sequel. This movie is 90 minutes, but if they had kept the original plot it may have gone 2-2.5 hours.

I think they made the right decision to shorten down and reduce the complexity of this movie. It keeps your attention longer this way. However, I wouldn't have minded seeing the more complex movie either.