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Rush Hour (1998( - Directed by Brett Ratner
" Man you sound like a Karate movie, y'all!"
I was always a fan of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Maybe I'm not the most devout of fans, but if you paired these two in a movie, I'd "rush" right to it. Well, that happened three times. I saw Rush Hour a couple of times as a kid, but I didn't remember it enough to review it. Now I remember enough of it, and I gotta say I'm still pleased with the end result.
Rush Hour is a unique buddy cop about two detectives from far off worlds: a fist-fighting martial arts master from China, and a sarcasm-spewing LAPD cop who always goes solo. When he's called in as a "reward" for his destructive behavior to "help" find a Chinese ambassador's kidnapped girl, he's paired with our old pal Jackie Chan who has the complete trust in the ambassador, but none in the jealous FBI. And for every time one of these party's screw up, it's always our two new buddies who are blamed!
Everybody knows Rush Hour. Brett Ratner might not be the most clever director (his real biggest deal just might be producing Prison Break), but he's got a good duo on the front lines to keep this action comedy going. And seeing the awkward behavior of both worlds colliding, especially Jackie Chan having no clue about African-American etiquette, sets up some real riots. At first, one may think, Jackie's all the action and Chris is all the comedy, but they both share some of the glory with each other, which keeps the film energetic. And there are several instances throughout the movie where the two are married perfectly. The genres, not the buddies.
The story sometimes plays out as a typical buddy cop film, but to see Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker going at it with either each other or the bad guys sets up new ways to go with the story on occasion. I would say that the film accidentally feeds off of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's charisma in more ways than one, because when the story lets things go very bad for our duo, I really want them to come out on top. This is not out of good will, but because both are good guys I'd wanna go get noodles with.
Rush Hour may be a "simple" film, but it's a good buddy cop movie worth a good deal of replay value. There really isn't a lot to be said about it except that if you want a good Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker movie, you get plenty of their charisma. There's a lot of love to find in this one despite its shortcomings as a movie.
" Man you sound like a Karate movie, y'all!"
I was always a fan of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Maybe I'm not the most devout of fans, but if you paired these two in a movie, I'd "rush" right to it. Well, that happened three times. I saw Rush Hour a couple of times as a kid, but I didn't remember it enough to review it. Now I remember enough of it, and I gotta say I'm still pleased with the end result.
Rush Hour is a unique buddy cop about two detectives from far off worlds: a fist-fighting martial arts master from China, and a sarcasm-spewing LAPD cop who always goes solo. When he's called in as a "reward" for his destructive behavior to "help" find a Chinese ambassador's kidnapped girl, he's paired with our old pal Jackie Chan who has the complete trust in the ambassador, but none in the jealous FBI. And for every time one of these party's screw up, it's always our two new buddies who are blamed!
Everybody knows Rush Hour. Brett Ratner might not be the most clever director (his real biggest deal just might be producing Prison Break), but he's got a good duo on the front lines to keep this action comedy going. And seeing the awkward behavior of both worlds colliding, especially Jackie Chan having no clue about African-American etiquette, sets up some real riots. At first, one may think, Jackie's all the action and Chris is all the comedy, but they both share some of the glory with each other, which keeps the film energetic. And there are several instances throughout the movie where the two are married perfectly. The genres, not the buddies.
The story sometimes plays out as a typical buddy cop film, but to see Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker going at it with either each other or the bad guys sets up new ways to go with the story on occasion. I would say that the film accidentally feeds off of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's charisma in more ways than one, because when the story lets things go very bad for our duo, I really want them to come out on top. This is not out of good will, but because both are good guys I'd wanna go get noodles with.
Rush Hour may be a "simple" film, but it's a good buddy cop movie worth a good deal of replay value. There really isn't a lot to be said about it except that if you want a good Jackie Chan or Chris Tucker movie, you get plenty of their charisma. There's a lot of love to find in this one despite its shortcomings as a movie.