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Summary: Dynamic Duo
Review: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker reprise their roles for the hit sequel "Rush Hour 2". While vacationing in Hong Kong, Inspector Lee (Chan) and LA counterpart Detective Carter (Tucker) investigate a sinister criminal plot and track a group of criminals from Hong Kong to Las Vegas. "Rush Hour 2" is a hilarious, action-packed joyride that combines the talents of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Director Brett Ratner manages to outdone the original with more stunning fight sequences and rousing humor. Chan and Tucker still have great onscreen chemistry. Jackie Chan delivers great stuntwork and good comic timing. Tucker's comic talents are amusing but slows the movie's pace. The cast also includes John Lone, Roselyn Sanchez and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as a striking henchwoman.As New Line DVDs go, "Rush Hour 2" DVD raises the movie-watching experience. The film is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen format. The DVD contains a flawless video transfer with great smoothness and solid contrast. The 5.1 Dolby Digital sound is quite aggressive with great clarity but the DTS sound delivers amazing use of bass and enhanced surround effects. Its supplemental features include filmmakers' commentary, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, trailers, cast and crew filmographies and DVD-ROM extras. The animated menus are clever and colorful. With a winning DVD presentation and great extras, "Rush Hour 2" scores a "B+".
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Summary: What A Rush
Review: Rush Hour 2 is an unbelievably hilarious, action packed, better-than-the first sequel to Rush Hour. I strongly recommend that you rent and watch the first one before you go see Rush Hour 2 because much of the humor and jokes are based on the original one, however, this is not necessary because you will catch on quickly and only miss a couple of the related jokes. Rush Hour 2 begins exactly where the first movie leaves off. If you watch both movies in order it will just seem like one long movie. This is a nice feature because it makes the movie easier to follow and understand.
Rush Hour 2 is about two detectives, Detective Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective Carter (Chris Tucker). While on their vacation to Hong Kong Lee and Carter are called back to duty to investigate and bust an international counterfeiting ring. This is no easy task, however, as they soon find out. Carter and Lee find themselves locations around the world such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas and even Tokyo.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker give a perfect and encore performance doing what they do best. Jackie Chan plays the serious logical and skilled martial artist Detective Lee. Chris Tucker portrays the never serious, ego boosted LAPD officer, Detective Carter. I don't believe that this movie would have had the same punch without these talented actors working together in this fabulous duo.
The action in this movie is spectacular. As always, Jackie Chan performs unbelievable stunts during his fighting rendezvous. At one point in the movie he jumps and dives through a very tight slot, much like one at a cashiers cage. On the other hand
Chris Tucker, let's just say... is not very good at Kung Fu, but nevertheless great comical relief.
The humor in this movie is absolutely bladder busting. Ethnic and personality differences between Carter and Lee create humorous situations. For instance: Carter speaks his own version of Chinese. Obviously, he just says a bunch of random gibberish and makes himself look like a total idiot in front of a rather large group of Chinese people. Carter is quick to the tongue and is always bashing on the Chinese culture. Lee is just simply funny while acting so serious and straight-faced: A perfect contradiction.
I recommend that you go see this movie or rent it when it comes out in January 2002 It will be worth your time and money, and because it stars Jackie Chan, you will get to watch the comical, and quite painful out-takes at the end of the film during the credits. You'll laugh your way through Rush Hour 2 with its wonderful blend of action and comedy.
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Summary: Terrific High energy sequel is GREEN!
Review: Not satisfied to just build on the personalities and chemistry created in Rush Hour -RH1, this action movie delivers an inventive script and great action. I would have given 5 stars but I down grade for language. Chris Tucker delivers another high energy, comedic performance. Since Chris first caught my attention in the Bruce Willis vehicle, Fifth Element. He has proven himself to be a real comedy - action star. This movie might have worked with a different actor playing chans part, but jackie chan is the genious that created these incredible films and may now be our top action star. Highly recommended, but only partially family friendly.
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Summary: If You Haven't Seen This, RUSH To Your Local Blockbuster
Review: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker absolutely tear it up in this heavily awaited sequel to the smash hit "Rush Hour" I've been a huge Jackie Chan fan for years now and while I like his pure kung-fu films better, usually, I must say that this movie is one of the most overall entertaining movies ever. This movie has got everything, from action to comedy to a good storyline to suspense to.....you name it. Also, Chris Tucker is hilarious in this movie, pulling in his funniest and most memorable performance to date. There are some crazy stunts as usual and the movie also stars Zang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who I love as well. Overall, this movie has everything you could want in a Saturday night flick. Also, the dvd is loaded with extras including deleted scenes and outtakes. This is an absolute must have for any action, comedy or Jackie Chan fan. Pick it up today!
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Summary: Funny Action Movie, with a great Villian.
Review: The merry popcorn mayhem continues in Rush Hour 2, another slight-but-amusing exercise in cross-cultural chop-chop and chuckle-chuckle. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker barely miss a beat as they up the ante on the comic martial-arts collaboration that took in $$$... million worldwide the first time out. Like the original, Rush Hour 2 is pure buddy-cop formula and generally well-staged and entertaining. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, Chan and Tucker generate undeniable screen chemistry. Again under the breezy, efficient direction of Brett Ratner, Chan and Tucker return as Hong Kong detective Lee and Los Angeles cop Carter, respectively. Carter is on Lee's turf now, as the two vacation in Hong Kong. The workaholic Lee can't resist a hot case, though, and the two are soon entangled in Chinese gang warfare, embassy explosions, counterfeit millions, a Las Vegas money-laundering casino and lots of confusing counter-espionage. If you follow the tale too closely, you'll find your brain stalled in a rush-hour plot jam. But the Rush Hour movies aren't about narrative; the stories are stages for schtick. (For further proof, hang around for the typical wacky outtakes during the end credits.) Once again, Chan impresses with his swinging arms and legs, popping fists and irrepressible smile, though, at 47, he has slowed a bit. Tucker counters with wiseguy wisecracks that reflect his function as the Western everyman, trying to cope in an Eastern genre. Their amiable relationship is even strong enough to make the film's occasional race-based jokes (of the "y'all look alike" variety) harmless and fun. As a sequel to a smash hit, Rush Hour 2 looks flush with success; the production values are higher, and the locales more exotic -- though the film still has the streamlined, brightly lit and economical ambiance that typify a Chan flick. The biggest improvement is in the quality of villainy. The deep-voiced, charismatic John Lone is marvelous as a scheming Hong Kong mobster. Note to Hollywood: He'd be a fabulous Bond villain. Meanwhile, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's young star, Zhang Ziyi, sizzles as the gorgeous, high-kicking power behind the dark throne. Here all her lines are in Chinese, with subtitles. If she gets her English down, the world will be her proverbial oyster. She is fabulous as the beautiful villan in the movie. One other highlight is the talented Don Cheadle in an unbilled cameo, getting laughs as a Chinese-speaking black operator of a Chinese restaurant in LA's Crenshaw neighborhood. Jackie Chan films will never be confused with art; the plots blur together, and the star never plays anyone but himself. Still, they are quality popcorn craft -- and they can be fun.
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Summary: Funnier Then The First...
Review: Slick, chaotic, and decently entertaining sequel picks up where the first movie left off. LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) is on vacation in Hong Kong with his friend, Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan). Carter just wants to relax, have fun, get some "mu shu", but Lee can't stop doing his job even for a minute. This time, he's hot on the trail of gangster Ricky Tan (John Lone), who may have been behind an Embassy bombing. More-of-the-same in terms of content AND style, but still pretty engaging, with lots of action and thrills. Chan and Tucker still share the same chemistry, and overall there are some good laughs. (Worth it just to see Tucker perform Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"...) For me, one of the perks of this sequel is watching "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" beauty Zhang Ziyi as a very fetching and lethal assassin.
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Summary: Better than the first, alot better!
Review: Take peoples word for it when they tell you this is better than the first Rush Hour movie, even Chris Tucker is much funnier in this one. The movie is funny, not amazingly funny but you can expect for laughs than the first one. Though there's alot of stupid things in this movie it wasn't made to be serious, now really two guys fighting off 10 guys at once on several different occasions. The ending was not bad, it was a pretty cliche ending but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. After watching it, I am looking forward to a possibly Rush Hour 3 and I hope they make one, if you're into action/comedies this is a must watch.
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Summary: IT WAS OK
Review: THIS TIME, THE DUO ENCOUNTERS SOME CHINESE CRIMINALS WHILE ON VACATION IN HONG KONG. NOT AS FUNNY AS THE ORIGINAL, BUT, IT STILL MANAGES TO BE OK. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS MOVIE IS ITS EXPLOSIVE FINALE, WHICH TAKES PLACE IN A CASINO. CHRIS TUCKER AND JACKIE CHAN MANAGE TO BE FUNNY ENOUGH TO MAKE THIS SEQUEL WATCHABLE.
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Summary: Great Funny/Action movie
Review: RUSH HOUR 2: Comedy. Starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Directed by Brett Ratner. (PG-13. 93 minutes) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Globalism hasn't had its great comedy yet. And "Rush Hour 2" isn't likely to get the kids rioting in the streets of Genoa. Let some other cross- racial, cross-cultural, cross-commercial flick step up to the plate. The movie,
lightly directed by "Rush Hour" visionary Brett Ratner, simply takes the first movie's shtick global, moving from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and still having fun with the idea that to the rest of the world, Chris Tucker epitomizes America. Tucker and Jackie Chan reprise their previous relationship and give it a lovey emotional center -- black men are from Mars; Chinese dudes are from Venus. After Chan thinks Tucker has died in an explosion at his Hong Kong precinct, P. Diddy's life-after-death tribute "I'll Be Missing You" comes on, reducing him to mush. And as long as it's entangled in multi-culti absurdity, "Rush Hour 2" is actually a better time than the first one: Tucker ordering the in-flight kosher meal; Chan, after miles of Tucker's ethnic verbal abuse, finally retaliating; the two bugging out together to "California Girls" on the streets of Hong Kong. Because "RH2's" grasp on detectives is tenuous at best, Chan and Tucker play themselves playing cops. It's a fact that becomes riotously evident in the reel of outtakes that caps the picture and incites wonder about why no one thought to give us 90 minutes of those in- stead. Chan and Tucker -- their characters are Lee and Carter, though it hardly matters -- are solving a corruption case involving -- well, who cares what the case is about? If you've sat through one action flick about Chinese triads, money laundering and a curdled police force, you've sat through them all. On the thriller front, "Rush Hour 2" is mangy. Reliably, the action sequences are a hyperactive blur. (In one chase number, the Doppler effect that's used as extras fall through bamboo scaffolding and past the camera is pretty funny.) But they don't advance the narrative so much as make you glad it has stopped. The writing credit goes to Jeff Nathanson. But he doesn't appear to have accomplished anything more than you could have, if left alone with a few episodes of "Miami Vice" and a "Lethal Weapon" boxed set. @sk,1 And as a derivative bonus, Lalo Schifrin's score suggests that James Bond might be lurking behind the Buddha statues. Otherwise, know that John Lone is playing Ricky Tan, someone rich and shady enough to be guilty of something international, which helps transport the film from Hong Kong to Vegas. This production is as gleefully cynical as Tucker is charmingly rude: On both sides of the camera, everybody knows "it's all about the Benjamins." That includes Alan King as a sleazy hotelier mixed up with Tan, and Rosalyn Sanchez as a sexy but possibly corrupt Secret Service agent with a thing for Chan. In the film's most dazzling but odd bit of casting, Zhang Ziyi plays Tan's taciturn, bomb-throwing fille fatale. This is what bringing down the house in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" gets you: the Grace Jones part in a so-so action-comedy-thriller sequel. Zhang's gone from defensive pugnacity to unmitigated aggression. Suffice it to say, "RH2" is scared to death of her, stringing her along as a lethal special effect. Lone, incidentally, effete as ever, also appears to be angling for the Alan Rickman villain hall of fame -- if not in scope of role then in pure swishy demeanor. Swishier is Jeremy Piven in a cameo as the fashion coordinator who puts Tucker in a snakeskin suit and Chan in a gold herringbone choker. The encounter is very "Beverly Hills Cop," which brings "Rush Hour 2" and Tucker to the Eddie Murphy mantle. Murphy is a changeling; Tucker has one note and it squeals out of him. Still, he's indifferent to what you think, whereas Murphy of late has a tendency to be needy. In one of the film's best non- outtake moments, Tucker commits a karaoke overhaul of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough." It's funny, though, given Tucker's role in the film as the point-and-exclaim indulger of all things exotically global, that he doesn't do "We Are the World." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Advisory: This film contains sexual situations and violence.
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Summary: not impressed....
Review: well i have to say that i wasn't impressed by the movie. the story is the same as the first one only with other actors. i mean, there were some funny side effects but nothing special. the funny side effects are the exact ones as the first movie.
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