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Similarly, the fights begin in a crowded and noisy disco, and then moveto a massage parlour (which offers one of the movie's few delightful stunts), ayacht full of chic passengers, and a fast-moving truck containing the dirtymoney. Hence,almost every sequence terminates with the outburst of bomb, and the only thingthat changes is the site, which switches from Hong Kong to L.A. Though credited to a writer,Jeff Nathanson, the schematic, by-the-book story feels as if it wereconstructed around exotic locales and big-budget, special effects explosions. And there's also an alluring Latina, Isabella Molina(Sanchez), a mysterious, seemingly corrupt US secret service agent. One is Hu Li(Ziyi) is introduced as Tan's gorgeous but deadly henchwoman, who knocks Carterdown at least three times. Two beautiful femmesdecorate the saga, adding sexy flesh to what's a skin-deep script. In one of the movie's more amusing moments, Leetells Carter in his far from perfect English, "In Hong Kong, I'm MichaelJackson, and you're Toto." The reversal of the fish-out-of-water formula, with thistime around Carter being the odd man out and Lee serving as his instructor,yields some funny results. In the background, the HongKong and US authorities are fighting over the case's jurisdiction, while thetruly heroic Lee and the reluctantly heroic Carter go from one predictablemishap to another.
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Assigned to crack the case, Carter sees it as aninterruption in his holiday plans, but for Lee the task assumes a more personalmeaning, since Tan was once his father's partner on the Hong Kong police force.In what is the picture's most shameless cliche, used to death inAmerican action pictures, it's revealed that Lee's father was killed, with allevidence destroyed this explains Lee's obsessive urge to redeem his father'shonour. Less than 10 minutes into thestory, a bomb explodes in the American Embassy, killing two US customs agentswho had been investigating a money-smuggling ring that's producing and shipping"superbills," high-grade counterfeit American money.Īt first, the prime suspectis Ricky Tan (Lone), the smooth and cunning head of the Fu-Cang-Long Triad,China's deadliest gang. This time around, Chan plays chief inspector Lee,of the Royal Hong Kong Police, who arrives in Hong Kong for a much-neededvacation with his partner, LAPD detective James Carter.Īrmed with his Chinese/Englishdictionary, Carter is looking forward to, as he says, "sampling some ofthe city's exotic delights." However, as soon as they arrive, the ever-dedicatedLee is faced with the biggest case of his career. Burdened by an inflated budget, due to the oversized paychecks of both stars, Rush Hour 2 has one or two weeks week to play, before facing late summer competition.Īs high-concept as summerpopcorn movies can be, Rush Hour 2 exploits the disparity of styles and love-haterelationship of the East's fastest hands and legs (Chan) and the West's biggestand filthiest mouth (Tucker).
Fans of Rush Hour will account for a solid opening, but, unlike The Mummy Returns and other sequels, it's doubtful that Rush Hour 2 will outshine the first picture, which grossed $250m globally (of which $140m were generated domestically), and was a hot video item all over the world. Coldly calculated, but still rather flat,the "new" action comedy basically rehashes the first, far superiorfilm, while increasing the female quotient, which now included the tough andbeautiful Asian actress, Zhang Ziyi, of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame (pictured above).
Neither terribly exciting asan actioner, nor sufficiently funny as a comedy, Rush Hour 2 re-teams the odd couple of the first film, theendlessly bickering Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, placing them in the most routineand movie-ish situations imaginable.
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