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Rush Hour 3 (Two-Disc Platinum Series)

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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.

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.

well, first i must say that i am a big jackie chan fan, but after watching this movie i just feel so dissappointed about the lack of originality in this movie.at least tucker was pretty hilarious as usual and the mixture of action and comedy is relly awesome.comparing with the first two they were very good even the second one.but maybe jackie is began to be old and he can,t fighting the way he usually do.i didn,t say that the fighting scene in the third is bad but it,s just unoriginal.without tucker in his hilarious habit this movie will became a total flop.the third is not quite as good but still entertaining.all i can say is that you can watch it if you are a martial art and comedy fan but don,t waste your time and spend your money for nothing by buying it.this movie is just good but not and out to be good as the other 2.i think it,s time for jackie to settled down and stop making movies.

Let's get one thng clear the plot is so thin that it only two plages long. You know who the bad guy is the second time you see him. The scene in th dojo with the BIG guy is totally not needed. The big song and dance number is totally not needed. Why didn't someone take a picture of the girl's head and give it to the cops? Think about this one.... The heros finally figure out who the bad guy is and over power him in his office. The second bad guy, the brother, calls and tells Jackie he has the girl and will trade the letter for her. Now the very next scene Jackie shows up at the killer's place with a girl, but the girl is Tucker in a wig. The big fight happens, which is copy of Rush Hour1 and Shanghi Knights. After the fight, Tucker and Jackie are confront by the head bad guy that they had over powered in the office. How did he get here? Whay wasn't he locked up? Who knows? Who cares? Even the out takes weren't funny!

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.

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.

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.

Fans of the Rush Hour series may (will likely) enjoy this one, but for the most part this is just more of the same action and plot that was in the first two Rush Hour movies.

All too predictable, all too easy to figure out who the good guys are (and who they aren't) long before the movie even really gets going, like the earlier Rush Hour movies the fun for this movie is in watching Jackie Chan's excellent action sequences and in snickering a bit at Chris Tucker's attempts to copy those or toss in a funny line here and there.

I have to ask the studio if they really felt it was necessary to waste a second disc on this, and have to wonder about the idea that Blu-ray has so much room per disc and yet this movie was released on two discs and not one? I suppose it was just a choice by the studio, but I know that Blu-ray discs can easily hold much more content than just the movie, or just the movie and a commentary track and original theatrical trailer.

There are a good many extras available with this release, but those extras aren't on the disc with the movie. In some ways that could be considered a good thing as you might be tempted to watch the movie again instead of simply putting the extras disc in the player and not having to worry about it. It just seems a bit strange that the extras do come on another disc rather than having a single disc with movies, extras and everything on it.

Further confusion comes from the fact that the main feature itself only runs approximately 90 minutes. (In many ways that can be considered a good thing about this movie). At that relatively short length, one would expect there was plenty of left over space on the main disc to have included a lot of the content that was instead put on the second disc. I suppose the trade off would have been that a bunch of content that is on the second disc might have been left out entirely in the name of saving the plastic used for make the second disc. If that was truly the case, then in the words of Emily Latela, "never mind."

Is it worth the purchase? If you can find it discounted go for it. If not, try Unbox and watch it that way (and leave room in your cabinet for sets that are better than this middle of the road quality movie).

We really enjoyed Rush Hours 1&2 and with that in mind went into RH3 hoping for more of the same. Disappointment bigtime. Rehash, retread, boring, the series has worn out its welcome. The disk doesn't even contain an outake real, the staple (and often best part) of any Jackie Chan movie. Hang it up guys!

First, I agree with the critics who say there's an element of nastiness in this film. Racism, for example. I'm kinda surprised Chris Tucker let himself be cast this way. He starts out as a traffic cop instead of a detective, against Chan's now being an ambassador's bodyguard. Throughout most of the film, it seems he's the one who makes most of the blunders, and Chan is the one who does most of the bailing out and serious work.

Second, I think the film crosses the line into indecency. It should be R-rated, not PG-13.

This may as well be the last Rush Hour film. I enjoyed 1 and 2, but after seeing this, I'll probably not buy any more, unless I have reason to think there's been a big improvement.