Chinese Zodiac (2012) on Netflix
A treasure hunter named Asian Hawk is hired to recover the twelve bronze zodiac heads looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace. His search leads him to Paris and a student named Coco.
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- Rotten Tomatoes25%
Trailer
Plot summary
An Anglo-French force looted and burned the Old Summer Palace in 1860, and among the artifacts taken were twelve bronze heads of the Chinese zodiac animals. In the present day the recovered heads are auctioned, and MP Corporation hires Asian Hawk to track down the ones still missing, the Dragon among them, offering a ten million dollar bonus if he brings back all twelve. Posing as a reporter, he visits Professor Guan, whose team made twelve replica heads for study, and scans them with special gloves so his organization can build a convincing copy. Professor Guan sends him to Paris and to Coco, a student who knows where two of the heads may be. Hawk and his partners break into a mansion to reach a hidden vault, and Coco catches him there.
Cast
- Nathan Boydas Auction Executor
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Chinese Zodiac (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jackie Chan earned two Guinness World Records with CZ12: Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor and Most Credits in One Movie.
- Jean-Yves Blondeau, the inventor of the skate suit, trained Jackie Chan to use the suit for the film's body blading sequence.
- The bronze zodiac heads the film's treasure hunters chase come from real history: the Old Summer Palace was looted and burnt by a combined Anglo-French expeditionary force in the Second Opium War, which took twelve bronze heads of the Chinese zodiac animals.
