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Starring:
Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Vinnie Jones, Hiroyuki Sanada, Max von Sydow, Yvan Attal, Roselyn Sanchez, Roman Polanski, Tzi Ma, Youki Kudoh, Simon Rhee, Jean-Michel Richaud, Julie Depardieu, Sun Ming Ming, Jingchu Zhang, Julie Depardieu, Noémie Lenoir
Directed By:
Brett Ratner
Written By:
Jeff Nathanson, Ross LaManna
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Rush Hour 3 (2007)
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Movie Review by Jarrod
August 12th, 2007
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Taken for what it is, 'Rush Hour 3' is mindless entertainment, and it seems very little time was spent on it in the six years since Rush Hour 2. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan return, and they make a great team. They have excellent chemistry. Tucker, whom I found obnoxious in the first two movies, is now very funny, talking fast and spouting one-liners left and right, while Chan is always straight-faced. Chan, at 53, is not quite as agile as he once was, and I doubt he still does all of his own stunts, which are, in any case, far inferior to the amazing stuff he could pull off 20 years ago.
The big source of humor in the first Rush Hour was the language barrier, Chan spoke broken, accented English, Tucker could not understand him, Chan could not understand Tucker, and there were also major differences in police tactics and culture, with Tucker's Carter from Los Angeles, and Chan's Lee from Hong Kong, both wrought with plenty of crime, but quite dissimilar atmospheres. Now, Carter and Lee reunite after the assassination of Ambassador Han by the Chinese Triad.
Lee was Han's bodyguard. They speak to Han's daughter, Soo Yung, and follow the head baddie (Hiroyuki Sanada) to Paris, where they meet Genevieve, a sultry femme fatale type, an anti-American cab driver named George (Attal), and Roman Polanski, playing a French cop. There is also a showdown with a giant martial arts instructor, and an amusing exchange with a nun (Dana Ivey), who translates for Carter and Lee as they interrogate a Triad gang member. I was reminded of the old lady who spoke jive in Airplane. The action is exciting for the most part, and well-done by director Brett Ratner, but there is little to distinguish this from its predecessors. Tucker has improved while Chan has declined, which is sort of sad.
Tucker does not have much of a career outside of the Rush Hour franchise, but Chan has decades of experience as an action star, an international celebrity, like Bruce Lee, from an Asian to an American phenomenon. 'Rush Hour 3' is far less exhilarating than The Bourne Ultimatum, which is just better and more stylish, but both can be enjoyed on their own terms, without much attention being paid to the shallow and completely disposable plot. 'Rush Hour 3' is centered more on comedy than The Bourne Ultimatum, which is one of its flaws, but it does blend action and comedy quite well, and provides ample doses of both. Truthfully, I liked it better than the other two Rush Hour movies.
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