Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
by Brett Ratner
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Actor: Chris Tucker, Jackie ChanDirector: Brett Ratner
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; Full Screen; NTSC; Widescreen
DVD Reviews of Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
DVD Review: Just Big Paychecks for Everyone Involved in it
Summary: 2 Stars
What do you call a movie that has no originality; paper thing story; big plot holes; forced humor; stereotypes and almost no laughs? Rush Hour 3 is your answer. This tiresome sequel from the Chan-Tucker team brings absolutely nothing new to the table. They all came back for the big paycheck and it's so painfully obvious. Tucker--the big winner here, financially speaking--doesn't even try anything new with his predictable humor and Chan looks tired and boring the whole time. I hope it all ends here because I don't like how they filmmakers deliberately recycle old materials to make a so called "new" film of this franchise.
Brief Intro Story:
Few years have passed and now Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) is a funny traffic cop, and Chief inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) is still a bodyguard for the Chinese Ambassador Han who is scheduled to give a speech at the embassy about the biggest crime organization in the world--the Chinese Triads. As he is giving the speech, he gets shot by a sniper. Chan goes after the shooter, but once they get face to face, he lets him go. Tucker appears at the scene but it's too late.
The Ambassador survived the shooting, but he is the hospital and needs protection. His daughter Soo Yung also shows up to see his condition. Meanwhile a group of killers also show up at the hospital to finish the job--the Ambassador is moved to another room, a la Godfather. The shooting begins and predictably our duo wins and captures a Chinese-French hostage that tells them that the key of this mystery is in Paris. They go to Paris to find out who is behind this.
Review:
The only thing I found hysterically funny about this sequel is the large amount of plot holes--for example; no cops to protect the Ambassador at the hospital, Tucker becoming a detective after being just a traffic cop, Ambassador's daughter ending up in Paris and so forth. Also the story itself is just a recycled version of the previous films--with just a small little twist that you can see it coming from a mile away. How many times have we seen the veteran actor Max von Sydow being the double-face guy? We get no originality from director Brett Ratner who brags about making films in no time--it definitely shows. Well, it also shows Chris Tucker's humor that is predictable, average, and for him, easy to generate--He can do this without too much effort, so let's not give him a lot of credit for it. Unfortunately Jackie Chan is not that great either. He looks bored and tired throughout the film. Does he really want to be in this third installment? His age definitely shows because his stuns are simpler and uses body doubles. He does, however, pulled few good stuns, but nothing like the previous films.
Besides the beat-to-death racial stereotypes and gratuitous partial nudity, we find another "great" accomplishment by the writer Jeff Nathanson who knows how to put America down by adding a hateful French taxi driver who bashes American international policy--in that uncomfortable moment, the audience went dead silence. Is it funny to talk like that? Sadly for some, it is. Thank you for reminding us about the hostility from the rest of the world and the terrible danger that we as a nation face everyday.
The Verdict:
Rush Hour 3 is a mechanical affair created solely to bring to the masses cheap mindless humor and collect some big paychecks for everyone involved in it. Nothing really stands out from the franchise that seems to be getting worse as time goes by. It just doesn't have the charm and fun of the previous films.
Description of Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)
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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