Rush Hour (film)
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Rush Hour is a 1998 martial arts
/ buddy cop film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The film was generally
successful, becoming the 7th top grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $140
million dollars at the box office.
Plot
Chan plays Chief
Inspector Lee, who has been sent to America from Hong Kong to investigate the
kidnapping of Chinese consul Han's daughter, Soo Yung. However, the FBI (who are
working on the case themselves) do not want a outsider like Lee to interfere with
their investigation so they palm him off with LAPD detective, James Carter (played
by Chris Tucker), a fast talking and arrogant police officer. The two men do not
get along. But when Lee and Carter find out that they're being used, they set
out to try and solve the case.
Reception
Rush
Hour opened at 1 at the North American box office with a weekend gross of $33
million in September 1998. Rush Hour grossed over $244 million worldwide.
While it gained positive reviews from critics, some people criticized the movie for being a rip off of Lethal Weapon while some noted that Jackie Chan's performance was nowhere as lively as his previous roles (in Hong Kong movies, Chan enjoyed total creative freedom and was typically given limited creativity in Hollywood productions) and his stunts were no longer death defying or impressive. Many critics praised Chris Tucker for his comical acts in the film and how he and Chan formed an effective comic duo.
A sequel Rush Hour 2, was made in 2001. A third movie, Rush Hour 3, is currently in production. Tucker will receive $25 million for the third film and Chan will gain the distribution rights to the movie in Asia. The movie is set to be released on August 10, 2007.
Cast
Jackie
Chan as Chief Inspector Lee
Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter
Tom
Wilkinson as Thomas Griffin/Juntao
Ken Leung as Sang
Tzi Ma as Consul
Han
Andrea Hahn as Soo Yung
Elizabeth Peña as Detective Johnson
Chris Penn as Clive Cod
Robert A Dawson as the Dinner Guest
Rex Linn
as Special Agent Whitney
Mark Rolston as Special Agent Warren Russ
Travis
Brown as the Cigaweed Man
Manny Perry as the Bartender
Clifton Powell
as Luke
Kai Lennick & Larry Sullivan, Jr. as the Cops at Diner
Yan
Lin as the Consul's Secretary
George Cheung as Soo Yung's Driver
Roger
Fan as Soo Yung's Bodyguard
John Hawkes as Stucky
Stephen Young as the
Taxi Driver
Ai Man as the Foo Chow Hostess
Lydia Look as the Foo Chow
Waitress
Mike Ashley as the Male Flight Attendant
Aiza Tai as the Flight
Attendant 2
Arlene Tai as the Flight Attendant 3
Latranto Fleming as Cigaweed's
Son
Adam Hennen as Sang's Body Guard
Trivia
There is a famous scene
where Chan and Tucker grab each other's hands and swing to kick their friends'
opponents; it is the same move used by Michael Winslow and Brian Tochi in Police
Academy 3: Back In Training. This move is also used in Rush Hour's sequel, Rush
Hour 2.
Rush Hour 2 is a 2001 martial arts/buddy cop film, starring Jackie
Chan and Chris Tucker. It is the sequel to the movie Rush Hour (1998). It was
more successful at the box-office than its predecessor, a rarity in the film business.
Rush Hour 2 grossed over $226 million dollars at the box-office, becoming the
4th top grossing film of 2001.
When Chris Tucker causes a car explosion, he
starts to dance to the Michael Jackson song "Another Part of Me" played
in his Disneyland exclusive movie Captain EO.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan
became such good friends over the course of the movie that they planned to try
out for Amazing Race Celebrity Edition, but the show fell through.
The gun
used by Chris Tucker's character is a modification of a standard Beretta 92 pistol.
Carter's car is a reference to the LL Cool J song Going Back to Cali. In the
song, LL says the line, "The top is down on the black Corvette, and its fly
because its sitting on Daytons." Carter's car is a black Corvette convertible
that always has its top down when seen in the film, and it has chrome Dayton rims.
While Consul Han and his daughter Soo Yung do not appear in the
subsequent film Rush Hour 2, they will play integral roles in the latest installment
of the franchise, Rush Hour 3. Actor Tzi Ma will reprise his role as Consul Han.
However, due to the time passing between the first and the third films, the now
older Soo Yung will be played by actress Jingchu Zhang.
While Captain Diel
did not appear in the final cut of Rush Hour 2, Philip Baker Hall did in fact
film a scene between himself and Chris Tucker's character that was ultimately
left out. With this scene out of the final cut, only Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker
are returning characters for the immediate sequel.
Directed
by Brett Ratner
Produced by Roger Birnbaum
Jonathan Glickman
Arthur
M. Sarkissian
Written by Ross LaManna
Jim Kouf
Starring Jackie Chan
Chris
Tucker
Ken Leung
Tom Wilkinson
Chris Penn
Elizabeth Pena
Tzi Ma
Julia
Hsu
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