Rush
Hour 3 would be 10
times better if Chris Tucker would shut up.
Jackie Chan is back as Chief
Inspector Lee – a top Chinese lawman assigned to protect the
Chinese Ambassador
during a monumental trip to Los Angeles, where the diplomat is about to
make a
major address to the World Court (in LA?).
Of course, his long time friend, Detective James
Carter (Chris “I only
make Rush Hour movies and travel to Africa
with Bill Clinton, yet, I still have more money than God”
Tucker) has to come
to Lee’s aid when the Ambassador is attacked before blowing
the lid on the
worldwide Triad crime syndicate. Now,
Lee and Carter have to protect the Ambassador’s family
… and try to find out
who is behind the assassination attempt … and try to become
friends again after
some fallout that happened in the past … and do all of this
in Paris?
What?
Through all of the
explosions, chases, one-liners and stream of meaningless characters, Rush
Hour
3 comes down to Tucker acting like a moron (Success!), Chan kicking some
booty in cool ways
(Success!) and some
scantily clad women
walking around while Tucker salivates over their hotness (Minor
Success!). It’s
funny for a while, but wears out its
welcome very quickly, when you realize there is nothing there
– no substance,
no depth, no good.
Writer Jeff Nathanson might
have written a story, but it all gets replaced with fight scenes,
Tucker’s
insufferable, unstoppable machine gun delivery of
“jokes”, and some car chases
that pale in comparison to something as exciting and energetic as The
Bourne
Ultimatum. He tries
to introduce all
sorts of possibly interesting twists like someone from Lee’s
past being part of
the big conspiracy, one badass martial arts diva with a blade fetish,
and some
sort of secret message that could bring the whole syndicate to its
knees, but
none of gets developed or expanded on by Nathanson, so most of the
“shocking
twists” are quite predictable.
Worst of all, Tucker’s
Detective Carter is a complete idiot making you wonder how this guy
even
manages to hold onto a full time job without a complete psychiatric
evaluation
- until the end. Then,
suddenly, he
becomes a kung fu master fighting off several highly skilled Triad
henchmen
like he’s Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris combined.
You don’t ever see the improvement, it
just happens when needed in the
plot. Plus, he is
too much comedy for a
movie that wants to get serious towards the end, and interrupts
everytime the
movie starts to get some flow.
Meanwhile, Chan is stuck in a rut playing a
character he has played in
just about every movie he has ever made.
Some stuff is funny, and
Chan’s stunt work is as amazing as ever, but if you pay an
ounce of attention
to what has happened in Rush
Hour
3,
it won’t make sense, and none of it
matters. Director
Brett Ratner figures
you gave up the moment you bought a ticket.
1 ½ Waffles (Out of 4)
Rush
Hour 3 is
rated PG-13 for sequences
of action violence, sexual content, nudity and language.
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2007 - WaffleMovies.com
