Shame on you Jackie, Chris, Brett, and Jeff - you are all better than this.
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08/08/07
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
It's hard to think of a sadder commentary about Hollywood's sequel fetish than the existence of Rush Hour 3.
08/08/07
Rush Hour 3 isn’t quite painful enough to kill off a film legend, but I suspect it would give Jean-Luc Godard a sharp pain in his side, at the very least.
08/08/07
Gives you lots more of the same shtick [but] repetition isn't necessarily bad, so long as the movie doesn't take itself too seriously and the actors are as likeable as Chan and Tucker.
08/08/07
There's a fine line between the frenetic fun to be found in returning to a familiar roller-coaster ride and the dead-end slog of a dying franchise.
08/08/07
A soggy, sorry mess. In a summer that's seen a lot of terrible sequels with 3 in the title, [this is] the worst of the lot.
08/08/07
Director Brett Ratner gives and he takes away. After destroying one trilogy last year with X-Men: The Last Stand, revives another with Rush Hour 3.
08/08/07
This once-amusing East-West globe-trotting franchise has become formulaic but that probably won't discourage loyal fans from lining up at the box-office.
08/08/07
A sluggish repeat of its predecessors that remains mistakenly convinced that miscommunication between Tucker and co-star Jackie Chan is the funniest thing ever.
08/07/07
Director Brett Ratner, who built a career on this buddy cop franchise, has cobbled together a lazy and formulaic action comedy that is neither thrilling nor particularly funny.
08/07/07
Humor is as obvious as the fact that Brett Ratner and screenwriter Jeff Nathanson watched every single Bruce Lee and John Woo movie before making this.
08/07/07
Desperate to revitalize the thematically stagnant but still commercially viable franchise, the filmmakers have added to the cast serio actors like Max von Sydow, director Roman Polanski, a verbose French cabbie--and the Eiffel Tower.
08/06/07
It lacks the relative freshness of the first installment, but it's noticeably better than the second one.
08/06/07
Jackie Chan is stellar, Chris Tucker is lame and the film is, while proficiently produced, about as dumb as a sack of hammers.
08/04/07
"Rush Hour 3" represents a final hour that has already passed.
08/03/07
A dated, stale, anti-American comedy. I hope they all make enough money never to make another Rush Hour movie again.
08/03/07
Hits the ground stalling.
08/02/07
Helmer Ratner knows the Rush Hour routine by heart, and production values, even with several new contributors to the franchise (including solid lenser J. Michael Muro), maintain the franchise's sharp, shiny look.
08/02/07
Top CriticThe cinematic equivalent of a third-generation photocopy of a doodle barely worth a glance in the first place.
07/14/07
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