Rush Hour 3 (2007)

After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.

Director:

Brett Ratner

Writers:

Jeff Nathanson, Ross LaManna (characters)

Stars:

Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Max von Sydow

8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Tucker	...	Carter
Jackie Chan	...	Lee
Max von Sydow	...	Reynard
Hiroyuki Sanada	...	Kenji
Yvan Attal	...	George
Yûki Kudô	...	Dragon Lady
Noémie Lenoir	...	Genevieve (as Noemie Lenoir)
Jingchu Zhang	...	Soo Yung (as Zhang Jingchu)
Tzi Ma	...	Ambassador Han
Dana Ivey	...	Sister Agnes
Henry O	...	Master Yu (as Henry O.)
Mia Tyler	...	Marsha
Michael Chow	...	Chinese Foreign Minister
David Niven Jr.	...	British Foreign Minister
Oanh Nguyen	...	Mi

Storyline

After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action as they head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority, but his personal struggles with a Chinese criminal mastermind named Kenji, which reveals that it's Lee's long-lost...brother. But their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day.

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Plot Keywords:

triad | ambassador | assassination | chinese | punched in the face | 

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Taglines:

Prepare for their finest hour and their only finest one

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of action violence, sexual content, nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

Metropolitan Films [fr] New Line Cinema [us]

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English French Japanese Mandarin Latin

Release Date:

10 August 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gas do daske 3

Filming Locations:

Craven Estate - 430 Madeline Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$140,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£2,731,998 (UK) (10 August 2007)

Gross:

$140,080,850 (USA) (2 November 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Roger Birnbaum Productions, Arthur Sarkissian Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the tower fight scene, the Japanese Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada) wields a Jian, a traditionally Chinese sword, and the Chinese Lee (Jackie Chan) wields a Katana, a traditionally Japanese sword.

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Goofs

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Paris is not a tiny street in the popular 6th arrondissement but rather a large and avenue in the rich 8th arrondissement.

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Quotes

Detective James Carter: Freeze, or I'll blow your ass cheeks off!

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Crazy Credits

Outtakes from the film play during the end credits.

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Connections

References The Godfather (1972)

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Soundtracks

"Closer I Get to You"
Written by Reggie Lucas (as Reginald Lucas) and James Mtume
Performed by Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan
Produced by SALAAMREMI.COM

User Reviews

THE FINEST HOUR-Funnier and More Action-Packed Then It's Predeccessors, If Still As Cliché and Average

Rush Hour 3

2007 has been the year of the threquel, and at long last--after the ambitious excess of Spiderman 3, the lackluster of Shrek the Third, the love-it-or-hate-it logic to the Pirates finale, the return to glossy form of Ocean's 13, and the tense, engaging Bourne Ultimatum (which gave a great ultimatum to its own franchise)--we come to its end with the fun, campy adrenaline-rush (what a pun!) of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker re-teaming for "Rush Hour 3". But I guess if you want to get specific a third resident evil is on the way (ah!).

Part of the fun of the third "Rush Hour" film (and maybe what holds it back a little, but this isn't a big deal) is that it doesn't try and grow out of its comfortable niche; it sticks to what it knows we enjoy, and delivers. Chris Tucker is still an undiminished comedian of zany, unstoppable vocal fervor; as much as Jackie Chan is still a stoic engine of physical fury and the dead-pan humor to Tucker's rapid-fire, witty remarks. And as tried and dead as the buddy cop genre is, these two actors play off each other so well, with such great chemistry, that cliché seems alive and kicking.

All the other staples we want are present: great comedy routines (the "whose on first"-esquire bickering in the karate school is side-splitting), plenty of bickering between the main players Lee and Carter, and over-the-top action (really this is where the third installment flat-out destroys the first two; the final crescendo of martial arts, sword-play and shootouts atop the EiFel Tower is a masterfully choreographed and executed sequence). Brett Ratner may be a hack of a filmmaker (I will never forgive him for the third X-Men), but he knows how to have a good, relaxing and enjoyable time at the cinema when it comes to this: cornball fun mixing up belly laughs, cliché action elements,superbly staged chases and fights, and even tossing in a cameo from Roman Polanski.

I can't say there's much wrong with "Rush Hour 3"; I would be a liar to say I didn't get what I expected and enjoyed it. Sure, there's nothing very new here, but I don't want my clincher to the big summer blockbuster lineup to be any other way. Just casual, forget your hard day entertainment. 7/10

"I am Yu"-Rush Hour 3