If this is car-crash cinema, it is a motorway pile-up of the sort that leaves a ten-junction tailback.
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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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticRush Hour 3 is junk - witless, uncomplicated, consisting of disposable vignettes of vaudeville like burlesque.
08/10/07
Amazingly enough Rush Hour 3 is as instantly forgettable as Rush Hour 1 and 2.
08/10/07
Top CriticPlease, please don't make a fourth.
08/10/07
Can you understand the words that are comin' outta my mouth? This is racist, bullying garbage.
08/10/07
Despite its derivative desperation and a ridiculous chain of serendipitous turns that are necessary to stuff a globe-trotting action flick into less than two hours, Ratner and company show they can grill an easy-watching summer blockbuster.
08/10/07
Depressingly, the legendary Max von Sydow and Roman Polanski pop up in small parts. They must have been desperate for the cash. My advice is to save yours.
08/10/07
Top CriticThe biggest loser in all of this is Chan, whose legacy over here won't be his 20 years as a martial arts pioneer, but rather his playing straight man to the likes of Tucker
08/10/07
An embarrassingly flat-footed caper.
08/10/07
The curse of the terrible 'threequels' continues with Rush Hour 3. Infecting this third movie is an extra, deeply unpleasant level of racism that we haven't seen before in the series.
08/10/07
Two hours of non-stop, ear-shattering, humourless shrieking. It's simply unbearable. You soon find yourself begging for him to die.
08/10/07
You have to wonder, what Max Von Sydow and Roman Polanski are doing propping up the cast of a picture whose action beats, if neatly staged, can't hold a candle to The Bourne Ultimatum's, and whose so-called comedy depends on reinforcing insulting ra
08/10/07
Top CriticNothing can justify the stale gags or Chris Tucker’s shrieking minstrel show, and not even a Lalo Schifrin score can drown out the sound of money being counted. Feel free to call it commerce. Just don’t mistake this for entertainment.
08/10/07
Although it has been six years since Rush Hour 2 came out, almost everything about Rush Hour 3 has a familiar inevitability about it.
08/10/07
It seems fairly likely that this is a case of returning once more with a bucket before the well runs dry.
08/10/07
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08/10/07
I've long since accepted that these are not going to be the outrageous Jackie Chan vehicles I love, or the reinvention of the buddy cop genre. They're just going to be solid vehicles with one of my favorite people in the world.
08/09/07
Rush Hour 3 isn't going to encourage intelligence anytime soon, but if you have a soft spot for silly adventure, it's a fine selection of wacky-go-boom.
08/09/07
The material here makes one wonder how low you have to set the bar before it becomes irrelevant.
08/09/07
Just more redundant, cookie-cutter formula.
08/09/07
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