The movie aims for irreverent, but delivers irrelevant instead. Let's hope the Rush Hour series stalls here.
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08/10/07
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:31
Rotten:123
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Rush Hour 3 is a tired rehash of the earlier films, and a change of scenery can't hide a lack of new ideas.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $140,080,850
Synopsis: In director Brett Ratner's RUSH HOUR 3, African-American cop James Carter (Chris Tucker) once again reunites with Chinese inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) to both taunt and battle bad guys. Whereas the... [More]
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh
Director: Brett Ratner
Reviews for Rush Hour 3
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
This entry does everything that made the first two mildly diverting buddy cop comedies inexplicably popular, of course, but it seems to be getting tired of the tomfoolery. So are we.
08/10/07
Less Abbott & Costello than Cheney & Rove; how else to explain the 'humor' in a movie that gleefully promotes the ugly in the phrase 'ugly American'?
08/10/07
Rush Hour 3 has the tone of an obligation grudgingly fulfilled after the cheques have been dutifully cashed.
08/10/07
If Chan has toned down the stunts, Tucker has pumped up the volume on his comic duties to the point where it seems his high-pitched whine could break glass.
08/10/07
Nine years after the first Rush Hour and a whopping six years after Rush Hour 2, the buddy chemistry between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker is finally showing signs of fatigue.
08/10/07
The only thing that's up-to-date about Rush Hour 3 is the way that 53-year-old Jackie Chan shows his age.
08/10/07
The East-West fusion action has been exhausted, the broad comedy is tired and the dynamic between Jackie Chan and Christ Tucker has all but disappeared.
08/10/07
Ratner tries to lampoon the violence in his movies, as if it gets him off the hook for serving up so much mindless - but blood-free PG-13 - carnage. It doesn't.
08/10/07
After a six-year hiatus, the Rush Hour brand has lost its drive.
08/10/07
Pretty agonising, from the misogynist display of female flesh to a truly horrific musical number to the no-longer-amusing closing credits outtakes.
08/10/07
Disappointing threequel that lacks the spark of the previous two films and resorts to grafting dreadful jokes and lacklustre action sequences onto a nonsensical plot.
08/10/07
After Max von Sydow played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal, he was condemned to hell: a prominent role in Rush Hour 3.
08/10/07
The absurd plot has plenty of bang-bang but very little blood.
08/10/07
Sends the endlessly bickering couple to Paris, where the great director Roman Polanski gives them a rectal exam. I wish I were kidding.
08/10/07
Look, it’s so dumb, I could easily give this one star – but I’m giving it two. It was entertaining, so sue me.
08/10/07
Only the prospect of the outtakes and Chan's flubbed chopsocky stunts kept me going to the end, and even they turned out to be duds.
08/10/07
None but the mad will want to see Rush Hour 3.
08/10/07
proves once again to be the perfect marriage of intense action and side-splitting comedy. The boys have still got it.
08/10/07
They're back! That lovable duo, back to kick some ass and ogle some babes! Yes - it's Max Von Sydow and Roman Polanski.
08/10/07
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