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Rush Hour 2 (Infinifilm Edition)

Rush Hour 2 (Infinifilm Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Much Better than RH1
Review: I enjoyed RUSH HOUR 2 much more than the original. It not only has a better a script, more genuine humor, better fight choreography, a better supporting cast, better acting but the overall production has a richer feel to it. This was a first rate production. Lalo Schifrin's score is rich and robust and perfect for this film. After all he did score ENTER THE DRAGON so he is a veteran in that sense. The camaraderie between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker now has a stronger base and you can feel it. The chemistry is definitely better in this film. The jams they get into are no longer routine but seemed to be well thought out. The villains are a step above the original and are more worthy adversaries with their sophisticated cunning and ability to rebound against our heroes. I definitely enjoyed this one better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ooooh. You know there's gonna be a Rush Hour 3!
Review: "Get closer, ooh get closer
I'm burnin' now..."

Just that whole bar scene defines Rush Hour 2. Explosive, entertaining, and drop-dead funny. I can honestly say that Chris Tucker earned his $20 million dollars for this film. Furthermore, It is my strong belief that this scene (the third in the movie) was the one that made you stay (as if you needed a reason to!)

As far as the DVD goes, you will get more than you bargained for. a great introduction to the world of China by Jackie Chan, and all the bonus trailers would have given the DVD five stars. But, it doesn't stop there. You have to own this to believe it.

Buy it for the bonus stuff. Buy it to continue the Chan/Rush Hour collection! Buy it for the laughs!

Bottom Line - Just Buy it!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 4 1/2 stars
Review: I loved this movie. I like the first one a tad better, but there are still enough funny jokes and intense stunts to get me through. The bloopers are especially hilarious. I just wish they haven't shown the funniest jokes in their trailers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the Coolest Movies From 2001
Review: This movie is the bomb! Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan work so good together! With Tucker's mouth, and Jackie's moves they are the best on-screen duo ever! Up with the likes of Batman & Robin, and C-3PO & R2-D2! I can't wait until Rush Hour Three comes out! It's gonna be the best!

The added features on this DVD make it one of the best! With a bunch of deleted scenes and commentary that make it so cool! I give the Rush Hour 2 DVD five stars.

P.S. The Don Cheadle scene is so cool. He speaks excellent Chinese!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Rush Hour 2
Review: Rush Hour 2 was good but not as good as the first one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Humor Misses the Mark
Review: The plot here is uncreative and tedious. I find Chris Tucker particularly grating. His voice itself is jarring, though I suppose that can't be helped. Moreover, it appears that his character is supposed to typify an attitude of USA-centrism. He needs to spend less time gawking at the foreign culture and making unhumorous cracks and more time adding something to the movie. I found the movie as a whole to be less than amusing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic movie, Laught a minute, guaranteed
Review: Rush Hour 2, i think, lives up to the standard of Rush hour. Not only is it funny,but creative. It keeps you thinking throughout the movie. Chris Tucker- Funnier than ever, cracking chinese jokes, short jokes, black jokes, you name it. And they were all funny.
Jackie Chan, was funny in a more subtle way, but he was still funny. His martial arts are amazing, he is so fast and agile, that the combo of Jacki and Chris is amazing. MUST SEE

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Amazing moves and a few laughs
Review: The movie was not as good as the original, but it was better than a typical sequel. There were plenty of laughs and amazing martial arts movements. I don't think I'd buy the movie, but it's definitely worth renting. The storyline wasn't too tight, but lots of one-liners. Like the first one, it ends with bloopers and those are a kick (pun intended)!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: They made me do this
Review: I had to do this review for my English class, and I didn't see a movie for a long time. The last movie I saw and remember is Rush Hour 2. The movie was very funny, but especially the scenes that didn't get in the movie that were shown at the end of the movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Lively, energetic, but ultimately tedious
Review: Rush Hour 2, like most sequels, is a movie they call critic-proof, meaning that any negative reviews won't jeopardize its success. The reasons are simple. Generally, a sequel is spawned only after the original movie turns out to be far more popular than expected. The sequel merely rides the wave of its predecessor's success. In a case where critics weren't overly fond of the first movie, which was true of Rush Hour, studios are really well positioned. If viewers ignored reviewers the first time around, why would they listen the second time? The subsequent production needs only to be as competent as the original. This process is repeated until, like any loaf of white bread, it becomes stale. Rush Hour 3 is scheduled for 2003.

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are back as Lee and Carter. Lee is a police detective from Hong Kong, while Carter is from Los Angeles. In the first movie, Lee was on assignment with Carter in California. This time the culture shock is reversed, with Carter's being in Hong Kong on vacation. Before he can even unpack his bags, there is an explosion at the US embassy. This turns out to be connected to a vast conspiracy to flood America with nearly perfect counterfeit money. The cool, calm and collected Lee immediately goes to work, dragging the loud, abrasive and not so bright Carter, literally kicking and screaming, into the case. They encounter numerous thugs, bad guys and even a couple of beautiful female villains.

The plot is as dumb as the one in the original, but the story is again interrupted numerous times by some fairly amazing martial arts fighting. I think it is these scenes that made both movies hits because they are so humorous and are the ones where Chan and Tucker make a good comedy team. The chemistry works in part because Chan is so masculine and Tucker, while not effeminate, is hardly the definition of a macho guy. To see him up there kicking butt with the best of them is most amusing.

What seems to be a deciding factor in whether or not people like these movies is Chris Tucker. Some of us think he is the best young comedic actor around, while others can't abide him. I'm sort of in the middle. He's very intense and seems not to possess a quiet side. Not only is he loud, his voice can be quite irritating. These traits are exactly what some people find so funny about him. I think his best role to date was in The Fifth Element, where he played a demented and gloriously funny drag queen. I don't object to Tucker himself in the Rush Hour series, bit I do find the character he plays to be especially obnoxious because Carter is the epitome of the 'ugly American'. He makes no attempt at understanding another culture and, in fact, spends most of his time making fun of it. He views women as sex objects. The ones he doesn't find sexy he makes jokes about. He leers at and makes crude remarks to the rest. Whereas Lee seems perfectly aware of what makes Westerners tick, Carter is totally clueless about Orientals. He revels in his ignorance and, yet, his character is portrayed as representative of Americans. Maybe that's what audiences find so amusing. Here we get to laugh both at ourselves and at other people. We get to have it both ways.


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