Rush Hour 2
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Director: | Brett Ratner | Actors: | Jackie Chan (as Chief Inspector Lee), Chris Tucker (as James Carter, LAPD), John Lone (as Ricky Tan), Ziyi Zhang (as Hu Li), Roselyn Sanchez (as Isabella Molinia), Harris Yulin (as Agent Sterling, U.S. Secret Service), Alan King (I) (as Steven Reign (Rich White Man)), Kenneth Tsang (as Captain, Chin, Lee's Boss), Lisa Lo Cicero (as Receptionist), Meiling Melancon (as Girl in Car), Maggie Q (as Girl in Car), Patricia Chan (as Club Hostess), Gelbert Coloma (as Karaoke Singer), Lucy Lin (as Heaven on Earth Hostess), Cindy Lu (as Heaven on Earth Hostess #2) | Country: | USA | Category: | Action | Year: | 2001 |
| Description: | It's vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement... | Comments: | Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker (Chan making some of the greatest contemporary martial arts movies ever and Tucker being excellent in Friday and his bit part in Jackie Brown) and when the first Rush Hour came out, I thought it was a good action comedy by taking a winning premise and actors with a story that had in it some real seriousness mixed with great laughs throughout. Now though, the sequel is out, and the film has made some big mistakes that make this an average movie when it could've been closer to a above average movie. They're are really two mistakes throughout the movie: 1) after a while, Tucker's racial slurs get tiring, not so much as they're not amusing but it's just, well, tiring. In the first film Tucker had really good lines, but they weren't spoken in every minute of the movie. It gets just plain stupid to hear te same jokes said even after the humor has been drained out. That movie had it right by giving Chan real control for the fight scenes and there were at least 15 minutes of Chan's unique and awesome kung-fu scenes. Now though, 2) while they're are spurts of action that make you stand in awe for the moment, it's not enough and director Ratner gives less time for the fight and stunt scenes and more time for Tucker's jibba-jabba, so to speak. Sometimes funny (the out-takes are the funniest part), sometimes exciting, but it's a real downfall from the first one, to definately be sure. Grade: C |
Languages: | Cantonese | Subtitles: | Length: | 90 | Video format: | Audio format: | Resolution: | Files sizes: | 897 |