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Produced by - Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong, Barbie Tung
Written by - Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong, Frankie Chan, Edward Tang
Screenplay by - Jackie Chan
Story by - Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong, Frankie Chan, Edward Tang
Starring - Jackie Chan, Kwon Sang-woo, Liao Fan, Helen Yao, Zhang Lanxin, Laura Weissbecker
Music by - Roc Chen, Nathan Wang
Cinematography - Jackie Chan, Horace Wong, Ng Man Ching, Ben Knott, Yip Siu Ching, Ng Man Chuen
Edited by - Yau Chi Wah
Production company - JCE Movies Limited, Emperor Classic Films, Emperor Dragon Movies, Jackie & JJ Productions
Distributed by - Emperor Motion Pictures, Jackie & JJ Productions (Worldwide)
Release dates - 12 December 2012 (Gala premier), 20 December 2012
Running time - 123 minutes
Country - Hong Kong, China
Language - Mandarin, Cantonese, English, Spanish, French, Arabic
Budget - 160 million yuan US$26,000,000
Box office - 879 million yuan US$145,000,000 ( wikipedia.org )
Awards
3 wins & 6 nominations.
Awards and nominations
32nd Hong Kong Film Awards
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Reviews: Critics, Appraisals And Comment
PG 13
IMDB
6.2 /10
12,428 Rate (imdb)
TOMATOMETER
Critics Score - 38%
User Score - 47% (rottentomatoes)
Metascore - 29
Generally unfavorable reviews
based on 4 Critics
User Score - 4.3
Mixed or average reviews
based on 11 Ratings (metacritics)
Criticism
Time Out Hong Kong gave the film two stars out of five
referring to the film as "a pedestrian film by any
measure aside from its action design" The South
China Morning Post gave the film one and a half stars
out of five, noting that " CZ12 lumbers like a cheap DVD
knock-off of one of [Jackie Chan's] old classics" and
" CZ12 is like watching a former star athlete struggle in a
meaningless game."
Plot
The movie begins by Jackie Chan telling the story of the
Old Summer Palace and its looting and destruction by
British and French soldiers in the Second Opium War.
Among the treasures stolen are twelve bronze heads of
the animals of the Chinese zodiac .
In the present day, the bronze heads are auctioned for
millions of euros each. The main company supplying the
bronze heads and other stolen relics is MP Corporation.
JC ( Jackie Chan ), is tasked by MP Corp to find the
remaining lost bronze heads, with a promise of a 10
times bonus if he can recover all of them. JC visits a
man named Professor Guan, who had created 12
identical replicas for study purposes with his team of
researchers, under the pretense that he is a reporter
named Martin from National Geographic . When left
alone, JC scans the multiple bronze Zodiac animal
heads using special gloves so that his secret
organisation can replicate an extremely realistic model
of them. After scanning, he goes to Paris to find a
woman named Coco, recommended by Professor Guan,
for more information on the whereabouts of two bronze
heads.
JC, along with his partners Simon ( Kwon Sang-woo ),
David, and Bonnie, infiltrate a mansion to find two of
the bronze heads. JC manages to decode the password
to a top secret vault and finds two bronze heads, a
painting called "The Roses", along with many other
valuable national treasures thought to be lost inside.
JC's cover is soon busted but he manages to evade
capture with all the valuables. However, he is spotted
by Coco. Having no time to explain himself, he tells
Coco to meet him at a boat house while fleeing from
the mansion's security. At the boat house, Martin tells
Coco that he is working for a secret corporation that is
trying to recover all the lost relics for China. The guards
from the mansion storm the boat house and try to
attack JC. However, the police is called in and they are
all arrested. JC, Coco and Simon are cleared of any
wrongdoing and are released.
Coco, JC and his team are invited to a castle owned by
a lady named Katherine ( Laura Weissbecker ). Unknown
to them, the guards from the mansion continue to tail
them out of suspicion. It turns out that the captain of
the "Indestructible", one of the ships involved in the
destruction of the Old Summer Palace and taking away
the treasures, is Katherine's great-great-grandfather.
This upsets Coco, who confronts Katherine on the issue.
JC and his team find many valuable treasures in the
castle, including the Bronze head of the Rooster, and
hatch a series of plans to ferry them out. JC promises
Katherine that he will help her locate her great-great-
grandfather's remains.
The next day, they venture out in search of the
Indestructible's treasures, located on a seemingly
uninhabited island. JC instructs Coco and Katherine to
stay behind while his team explore the island. However,
Coco and Katherine disobey JC's orders to look for
Katherine's great-great-grandfather's corpse on their
own. They get entangled among the vines and this
forces JC to rescue them. The group accidentally
discovers the remains of the Indestructible, several more
bronze heads and a large quantity of gold (plus the
remains of Katherine's great-great-grandfather.) As
they prepare to leave with all the artifacts, they are
confronted by the guards from the mansion. In turn, the
island's local inhabitants, a group of pirates, appear
and promptly capture all of them. JC and his team fight
their way through to escape the island via a log set up
with a pulley system, leaving the five guards with the
pirates.
Back on the yacht, Coco accidentally discovers the real
motive of JC's ventures and confronts him.
Subsequently, the log carrying approximately eight
tonnes of gold sinks. Nevertheless, JC and his team still
get rewarded for recovering some of the lost bronze
heads. The group are enraged when they find out that
the supposedly-missing dragon bronze head was
already at the hands of MP Corp all along, thereby
making it impossible to claim the large bonus.
Meanwhile, Coco and her fellow students' protests over
the sale of the national treasures escalated quickly and
captured attention worldwide. As Coco's students try to
find out more about MP Corp, three of them, including
Coco's younger brother, are captured. Coco approaches
JC for help but JC seems nonchalant.
JC contacts MP Corp on the availability of "The Roses"
artifact and is allowed into the secret premises. Having
toured the entire factory where almost exact duplicates
of the relics are made to be sold as real relics in
auctions, JC deduces the location of the captives. He
challenges a long time rival who happens to be there as
well – the unscrupulous treasure hunter, Vulture, to a
fight but it ends in a stalemate. JC bargains with MP
Corp to sell "The Roses" painting at a reduced price and
secure the release of the three hostages. When MP Corp
refuses, JC fights his way to the chamber. During the
ensuing fight, a furnace explodes due to a guard's baton
rupturing one of the pipes. The explosion destroys most
of the facility. JC later settles for the release of the
three hostages in exchange for the painting and not
paying damages done to the premises.
Meanwhile, the dragon bronze head is expected to fetch
the highest price in the auction but no one bids for it
due to increasing pressure from activist groups. MP
Corp, in a bid to teach these groups a lesson, threatens
to throw the relic into an active volcano, calling the
mission "Let the Dragon Fly," if no bids are received by
12:00 noon the next day. The deadline passes without a
single bid and Vulture leads a group of three sky divers
to throw the relic into the volcano. JC intervenes and, in
the ensuing airborne struggle, seemingly dies in order to
save the relic from dropping into the volcano. As a mark
of respect, Vulture hands over the relic to a sprawled
JC. MP Corp's owners are arrested on possession of
"The Roses" painting. JC survives and is seen
recovering in a hospital and on good terms with
everyone, including Vulture. The movie ends with JC
kissing his wife. ( wikipedia.org )
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