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Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow Directed By: Brett Ratner Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen Label: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 20, 2007 Running Time: 91 minutes Theatrical Release Date: August 10, 2007
Product Description: No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG13 Release Date: 20-DEC-2007 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker head for the City of Lights in the somewhat threadbare but sporadically exciting Rush Hour 3, the second sequel to director Brett Ratner's 1998 cop-buddy hit. Chan's Inspector Lee and Tucker's Detective Carter hop from Los Angeles to Paris in pursuit of a Chinese triad only to find a mixed reception, including a brutal warning from a French cop (Roman Polanski) and anti-American sentiments from a cab driver (Yvan Attal) who eventually becomes an important and funny ally. Lee and Carter, when not fighting their way out of rooms full of martial arts gangsters and crazed assassins (Sun Ming Ming), follow a trail to a beautiful woman (Noemie Lenoird) who literally carries a vital clue on her person. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority (Max Von Sydow), but his personal struggles with a criminal mastermind (Hiroyuki Sanada)--who happens to be an important figure in his life—are at the heart of this movie.
The aging Chan still seems to defy the laws of physics with some of his more spectacular stunts. But it's true those stunts take a little more time than they used to, and judicious editing makes Chan look spry as ever. He frets charmingly in Rush Hour 3, while Tucker revives his brash character's motormouth guile and whiny womanizing. There isn't a lot left to be discovered about Lee and Carter's compatibility, and even with a minor crisis over their loyalty to one another in Rush Hour 3, their all-important relationship is almost too easy to take for granted now. Fortunately, the film's biggest thrills come from several wild fight scenes, especially a climactic battle on the Eiffel Tower that is rich in imagination. --Tom Keogh
C'mon, its a mindless martial arts comedy flick, what did you expect! I find it a bit strange that people are giving this movie a poor rating because the script or plot was weak, well,, to be honest both Rush Hour 1 and 2, were not exactly stellar suspenseful plots or scripts!
Its a basic martial arts, buddy action comedy flick. that's it, and in that aspect, Rush Hour 3 delivers the goods. Granted, its not exactly oscar material, but then again it follows as a decent trilogy to the first 2. I would say the movie was a bit of a letdown more by the support actors apart from these two and the need to film it in Paris.
My favorite is the interrogation of the french triad member by these two in the prescence of the nun.
Chris Tucker - "Yes Sister, his stinkin hairy beads..!" Hilarious!
Maybe They Waited Too Long for Part Three? This review is from: Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
I really enjoyed Rush Hour 1 and 2. I thought the chemistry between the soft-spoken, but very acrobatic Jackie Chan and the motor-mouth Chris Tucker was very good for the first two films. The first Rush Hour worked well because we saw the culture change Jackie Chan experienced going to the United States and the second Rush Hour was humorous because we saw Chris Tucker experience the culture change in China. For the third and final act (hopefully final), both characters go to France, Europe to experience a new culture for both of them. However since Rush Hour 3 (2007) came nearly six years after Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 1 (1998), it seems the chemistry between Chan and Tucker dried up. I heard rumors that in real life the actors didn't like each other off screen. Hard to believe if there was hatred between them when it looked fun while they were both singing and dancing to the "War" song in part one. If the rumors of their hatred for each other are true, than the efforts in part three can be justified.
Other than the fantastic stunt scene on the Eiffel Tower, Rush Hour 3 looked like a "rushed" effort done only to simply complete a trilogy that perhaps should have never been completed. It seems nowadays all movies that have a part two MUST have a part three so that a trilogy DVD set can be sold in the future. Other than humor that is practically non-existent in part three and no memorable antagonist or villain to counter Chan & Tucker not much worked well. I really wanted to enjoy part three despite the bad theatrical reviews it initially got since I bought the Rush Hour 3 DVD during the Christmas holidays (when the DVD was first available) in order for my wife and I to watch something new on a quite evening alone. I think the film would have worked better if it got a better protagonist or villain to counter Chan & Tucker. By the way I really liked Ziyi Zhang from part two in which she played a great villain (or femme fatale). Perhaps part three could have used another major actor to play the main villain such as Jason Statham (who could have fitted in some sort of Frenchman role) or Jet Li (not that Jackie Chan would have a fighting chance against Statham or Li). In the end I think the producers of Rush Hour 3 truly fumbled with this effort. I think the wait was too long, laughs were few, action ordinary and the effort rushed. 5 stars for part one & two, but only 2 stars for part three.
one too many I have always been a great Jackie Chan fan, and I liked the first two installments, but the third is a bridge too far. Plotwise it seemes to be a revised version of the first, which really lets you know beforehand when what is going to happen. Not a great trait. The action is of roughly the same caliber as its predecessors, although somehow a bit lacking. The jokes are funny enough though, but can't carry the film on their own.
I think this film is a good example of the worse side of this hollywood obsession with sequels these days. Some times it just was not meant to be. 2,5 stars.
Very underwhelming. It's been so, so long since I've watched the other two movies.
To be honest, i remember nothing of the first movie which many think was the best.
Of Part 2 I remember the little asian girl singing Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" in the car. She was JAMMIN'! haha... And the ending had a casino fight with a few thugs and I remember one of them, probably Chris, fighting this chick who was very good at fighting. They both were! But ike I said it's been a LONG time so other parts are hazy or non-existent!!
But this movie...it starts off with Tucker directing traffic (he's a police officer this time) and he's singing Do Me by an old-school singer, that I can't remember.
It's not Stephanie Mills but it's one who came out around her time, I would think!
The fight scenes were OK, the comedy was OK and the rest had a been there done that feel.
It was underwhelming for sure and I didn't quite get through the whole movie.
I got really tired and I turned it off because it was leaving a lot to be desired.
Shoot me down for not watching the whole thing but that's just how it went down.
Before I leave you though, I must say that this movie was actually pretty racist also. Not towards blacks, but from blacks in a sense. Whoever wrote the script, gave Chris a few lines of "funny" Asian jokes such as the china man and other racist, predictable fodder that was to an extent funny, but not funny enough to be worth saying. He also has a line where he says to his partner in crime that he knows all he does eat is rice and such.
2.7 stars.
End note: Give me a bad rating if you want but all we have to do is look at the overall score. It reflects my opinion rather well. Don't get me wrong though. It wasn't a total bummer. There were funny parts. It's just that in between all that you were waiting for something... And the racist lines were rather rampant.
Go make your own damn mives then!! People expect too much from movies really.Rush hour 3 was a ride,a fun ride.It's the same caliber as the previous 2.It was funny,contained lots of hilarious actions sequences.Plus i loved the exotic setting.Damn people,please!!! Oh the cabaret scene was golden!! Not a cheap shot like some of you sexually frustrated snobs have noted.PEACE!
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