Rush Hour

PG-13

9/18/19981h 37m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The fastest hands in the East meet the biggest mouth in the West. ~

Overview:

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.

Director:

Brett Ratner

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$33,000,000.00

Revenue:

$244,721,064.00

Key words:

martial arts
fbi
two man army
chinese mafia
cop
los angeles, california
east asian lead
buddy cop
consul
crime lord
art treasures
child kidnapping
duringcreditsstinger
action hero
hilarious
amused

Cast

Jackie Chan

~ as ~

Lee

Chris Tucker

~ as ~

Carter

Tom Wilkinson

~ as ~

Griffin

Philip Baker Hall

~ as ~

Captain Diel

Elizabeth Peña

~ as ~

Johnson

Chris Penn

~ as ~

Clive

Mark Rolston

~ as ~

Agent Russ

Tzi Ma

~ as ~

Consul Han

Rex Linn

~ as ~

Agent Whitney

Ken Leung

~ as ~

Sang

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Reviews (3)

I
Ibraheem...
Written 8 year(s) ago
9
A Jackie's Chan movie. Expect a mix between action and comedy, add Chris's Carter character, and you'll have a movie that you'll always laugh at no matter how many times you have seen it before.

The whole three parts of it are worth watching.
Gimly
Written 7 year(s) ago
3
Maybe the most overrated buddy cop movie of all time.

Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.
GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
OK, heavy bias here, but I'm just going to come out and say that Chan and Tucker should have stopped after this one. Rush Hour was funny, Rush Hour 2 and especially 3 where horrible.

Really it's like Lethal Weapon, or, in fact, it's like just about any buddy cop movie where the duo is salt and pepper and entirely mismatched. And those movies are usually always fun in any action or comedy genre... except when it comes to the ones with the dogs.

So you have the chemistry with a solid cultural and language barrier ala Red Heat.

The difference is that this amps up the comedy to, honestly, to a point that is utterly hysterical. Especially given the clear chemistry between Chan and Tucker. The timing is great and the out takes are even better. It's a hysterical pleasure to watch...

... just stay away from the sequels because, honestly, I don't know what happened there.