The movie begins by a man telling the story of the Old Summer Palace and how it was looted by the British during the second opium war in the 1800s. Among the treasures are bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals.
In the present day, the bronze heads are auctioned for over a million 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 was
soon busted but managed to evade capture with all the valuables, but 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 are called in and arrest all of them. 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 the captain of the "Indestructible", one of
the ships involved in the destruction of the Old Summer Place 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 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.....
Subtitle English
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