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.
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Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogamil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
Director:
Tony Scott
Stars:
Eddie Murphy,
Judge Reinhold,
Jürgen Prochnow
Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
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. Written by
Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
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. See more »
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. See more »
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
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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