Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; Full Screen; NTSC; Widescreen
When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there¹s only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise hell in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Detective Carter (Tucker) instead get caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang and two gorgeous femmes fatales! With everybody kung-fu fighting to the top of the Eiffel Tower, this one-two punch of hilarious action doesn¹t let up to the final heart-stopping au revoir!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
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Ignorance,
I have a question, why are people giving this movie bad reviews that state themselves they didnt even really like the other two movies to begin with? Im not gonna go write a review about harry potter or something I hate and trash talk it cuz my opinion is irrelevant. If you liked the other two movies then this one will not be disappointing. This movie was supposed to be a comedy with some martial arts action poured on top and thats exactly what it was. Chris Tucker was hilarious in it and if he annoys you then dont watch the movie. I was in a completley packed theater and every person was laughing so hard people were losing their breath. So obviously SOMEONE thinks Chris Tucker is funny. All the haters need to back off of this post.
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|This partnership has finally run dry,
This is officially the worst film out of the “Rush Hour” series, and I was sorely disappointed. I understand that these movies are not meant to be monumental in quality. That didn’t stop me from enjoying “Rush Hour 1 and 2.” But in this third installment, the jokes have all run dry. This sequel best showcases Chris Tucker’s weaknesses as a comic actor. He is undoubtedly a very funny stand-up comic, but unfortunately even the funniest stand-up comics don’t always make smooth transitions to film. The problem with putting stand-up comics in movies is they have the tendency to improvise whenever possible. The problem is that they have to improvise within the parameters of each scene. They don’t possess the same freedom and imagination they have when using their material on stage. It doesn’t help that a lot of Tucker’s material was recycled from the previous two films. The film opens with Tucker dancing like Michael Jackson in the middle of a busy L.A. street. Why is he doing that? Because people thought it was funny when he did it in the previous two films. There’s no valid reason for his character to be listening to his I-Pod, singing and dancing along, when he should be directing traffic.
Both Tucker and Jackie Chan seem to be going through the motions this time around. The chemistry is only barely there. Besides, the novelty has worn off by now. We get it. One’s an Asian, by-the-numbers cop who doesn’t speak much English and the other’s a goofy LAPD detective who can’t shut up. You can’t expect to keep milking jokes out of that one premise.
There are some spectacular action sequences, but as a comedy the film doesn’t quite click. The jokes in the other “Rush Hour” flicks were pretty cheap, but in this one it didn’t even feel like the filmmakers and actors were trying. The plot involves the unlikely duo going to France, so naturally we’re bombarded by every French stereotype imaginable. Stereotypes can definitely be funny. As I’ve said in previous reviews, political correctness is the enemy of comedy. But when you recycle the same tired old stereotypes we’ve seen billions upon billions of times, how am I supposed to laugh? When the characters get to France, they hop into a cab with a French cab driver who hates Americans….because he’s French. With movies like these, why shouldn’t the French hate us Americans? And of course, we’re bombarded by more tired Asian stereotypes. In one incredibly lame scene, there’s a Chinese character named “You” and another named “Me.” Hahaha, how friggin’ original! So we’re treated to another tired rendition of the classic “Who’s on the First” act, with Tucker asking the character, “Who are you?” “You.” “What’s your name?” “You.” I don’t think I need to go on. It was bad enough when Morris Day and Jerome tried to re-create it in “Purple Rain.” We don’t need to suffer through it again. I hope Abbott and Costello rise from the grave and punch Brett Ratner in the face.
On a happy note, the film did end with the song “War, What Is It Good For?” with Chan and Tucker dancing into the moonlight. That was one callback to the previous flicks that I can never get tired of.
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|Another Example Why Holiwood Needs To Stop Making Sequels,
I liked the first Rush Hour a lot. The second one wasn’t as fantastic but since they changed the location it made things kind of fresh. I think they went for the same formula on the third one by taking them to France after being in LA for a while but it just wasn’t entertaining.
Sure, there were a few spots of humor here and there. When a French cab drivers insults Halle Barry in front of Chris Tucker his reaction made me laugh out loud. However, this movie just never grabbed me.
To be honest, this reminds me of this great teacher I had. When I first took his class he was funny and entertaining. What made him really stand out was his great repertoire of one-liners that had the classroom rolling. So when he was teaching another class I was excited to sign up and found that his silliness started wearing off on me and his “great repertoire” was actually the same old jokes from the previous class. Though there wasn’t anything different, it was just boring anyways.
This movie is like that. There wasn’t anything to keep this fresh, it was just a rehashing of the first two movies again. Even references to “Mu shoo” were there like the makers thought we would still be laughing at that joke. Come on, its old now. The only thing they did to try and keep this fresh was filming it in Europe but I think this movie needed more. Even Shrek needed to bring in new sidekicks to keep things fresh.
In the end, I never finished this movie. Halfway though my son asked me if I wanted to play Guitar Hero and I thought that would be more entertaining. After a few days I realized I never finished the movie and then realized again I had no desire to.
Unless Rush Hour still tickles your fancy I’d just avoid this one. Others described it as watchable and I think that is the nicest thing I can say about this movie. I mean, it wasn’t horrible it just wasn’t good.
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