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Summary: Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are the dynamic duo!!!!
Review: Chan's stunts are his best ever.Tucker is the humor and the are mouth are huge.Chan and Tucker combined are like Batman and Robin.
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Summary: This movie was hilarious
Review: For people who like comedy and action, this movie is for you. Jackie Chan is an excellent and funny martial artist. Chris Tucker is funny just to look at. The professional martial artist in the movie is incredible.
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Summary: Wonderful performance by the charming Chan
Review: Jackie Chan has come to America and scored a huge hit, thanks to his undeniable charm, daring athleticism, and deft physical comedy. The movie's plot may not be much, but the pairing of Chan and Tucker is definitely worth watching. Tucker is a little one-note and shrill some of the time, and his "I want to be Eddie Murphy" routine(there are some scenes, like the one with the stewardess, where he copies Eddie's speech patterns and mannerisms down to a 'T'), wears a little thin towards the end. However, he does provide good energy and some genuine laughs, and acts as a good motormouth counterpoint to Chan, who hasn't yet mastered English. Not that we can blame Jackie for that. He speaks five languages - I certainly don't speak Chinese, and have taken French for 3 years, but can't really speak it either, and English is the hardest language in the world to learn, blowing away the English to French or Spanish transition by a long shot. It's just SO hard. Chan speaks more with his expressive face and body language, and wonderfully brilliant ballet-like choreography. There's never been an equal when it comes to a fight scene, and his production numbers often rival the best of Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. It's pure grace. Chan isn't allowed to cut loose here - he's made many films with much more in the way of fantastic choreography and jaw-dropping stunts(such as Drunken Master II), but what he gives us here still blows away any other action star you can name. His timing with physical comedy is also among the best in the business. The language barrier aside, Chan is one of the most talented all around performers ever, and watching him on screen is a joy. The American production values and English language of this film served to open it up to a wider audience, which Chan definitely deserves. Hopefully he'll have the power now to make Hollywood Blockbusters with more of the trademark Jackie elements in them. David
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Summary: what I think
Review: I think this movie is funny and sensational
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Summary: MY TYPE OF MOVIE
Review: The best I've seen in years. Chris and Jackie couldn't of done a better job. I think it should win an Acadamy Award.
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Summary: An excellent DVD.
Review: The Movie:Chris Tucker is the funniest man in the world, in my opinion. It's too bad that the movies he acts in are always running to try and hopelessly catch up with him. One of the funniest things in cinema and some of the most enjoyable comic moments in the past few years have come from watching Tucker's performances. You can almost see his mind working in overtime trying to think up what to say next; and you never know what he'll say next. He takes the best of what Eddie Murphy used to be and just speeds it up a few hundred....thousand notches. It's just his looks of mock anger that always make me laugh. Never has anger been so funny. He's joined by action star Jackie Chan in this film, which, although it's very funny at times, never really moves above the level of average, forgetable entertainment. Chan has done better "stunt-orientated" films like "Supercop" and "Rumble In The Bronx". In those films, he really shined with his mix of good humor and quick action. Here he's made to be more in the shape of the plot's need for humor and dialogue over stunts...not to say that there aren't any stunts; there are. It's just that they are a little few and far between. The story revolves around a Chinese Console member who's daughter is kidnapped. Chan is brought in by the console member. The only problem is that the FBI wants to solve this case itself, and Chan's detective is not welcome. Some of the funniest scenes in the movie are watching Tucker's detective come to the realization that all he's called on to do is babysit Chan's detective. So, we start into the age old buddy cop flick. Thankfully, this one isn't too bad. A nice script, some very good moments also from Chris Tucker when he's allowed to just improv his performance. Thank god Tucker and Chan liven up the proceedings; Chan has his usual array of incredible stunts, running up and down the sides of everything, kicking, doing it all; Tucker's mouth and Chan's quick feet make a nice balance of opposites. It's unfortunate that the direction is average, the plot is something you've seen all before, but it's through the performances of Tucker and Chan who make "Rush Hour" worth watching. It's nothing new, but when it works, "Rush Hour" is a whole lot of fun. The DVD: Picture Quality: New Line has done a phenomenal job with the transfer of "Rush Hour". The colors of Los Angeles are incredibly vivid and just pop on this disc. Look at the reds in the Chinatown scenes or the colors of the neon at night. The color saturation is wonderful and there is no bleeding in the colors; the light from a neon sign looks perfectly sharp and clear. Speaking of sharpness, the images themselves are perfectly clear and sharp throughout the disc. There are a few instances where there is a small shimmering problem, but compared to a lot of the other discs I've seen lately, the shimmering in this disc isn't worth mentioning. Again, images are razor sharp throughout, there aren't any other problems at all with this disc. There are a lot more pros to talk about, though. Skin tones are 100% perfect. There is definitely no pixelization in the disc whatsoever, even in the low-light scenes or in the backgrounds. Black level in the picture is fantastic and contrast is wonderful. Shadow level is excellent and overall, this is a nice continuation of the New Line tradition of replicating the theatrical experience at home. There's occasionally a problem with otherwise great discs such as shimmering or what not and it takes you out of the experience. There's nothing on this disc that's problematic enough to take the viewer out of the experience of the movie and that's a sign of the very best DVDs. The 2.35:1 image is excellent. Excellent job, New Line. Audio Quality: Impressive sound quality on this disc, emphasizing the sounds that added to the tone of fun on this disc and that's Lalo Schifrin's fun, urban and light score melding old R&B hits and current rap along with other wonderful bits and pieces of fun music to make an enjoyable score. The score fills the room and sounds full and clear. Dialogue also has that "same room" impression, recorded with clarity. There's a lot of impressive sound on this disc like the gunfire(director Ratner talks on the commentary about how he wanted to make the gunfire loud and emphasize it to make it "exciting"), which sounds great. The explosions also fill the room with great impact and force. Extras:Now here's where this disc really shines: Commentary: There's an outstanding commentary with director Brett Ratner(who sounds at times sort of like Quentin Tarantino), who talks in depth wonderfully about the details of the production and working with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. It goes into the detail of working with the screenplay and building the stunt scenes. This is a commentary that really is exactly what I want to hear in a commentary: it tells the story of exactly what it took to get the story to screen, not just what's happening on the screen. This is a fascinating commentary and I recommend it as one of the best commentaries out there. There is also an isolated score(and it's a fantastic score) with commentary by the great composer Lalo Schifrin. Documentary: Again, it's what I want to see in a documentary. The box calls it a "featurette", but "A Piece Of The Action: Behind The Scenes Of Rush Hour" is something I would consider a full documentary. There's a lot of fun going on in the interviews with the cast and crew, and it doesn't seem like a usual studio promotional documentary. A lot of the camera work is hand-held and it just seems like it was all done in fun and the fun that the cast and crew has carries over to the viewer. The documentary runs about 40 minutes and the last chapter is more in the way of the hilarious outtakes that ended the film. Deleted Scenes: A short reel of deleted scenes that at the most, are about 1 minute. Nothing earth-shaking, but interesting to see. The reel is a few minutes in length. Short film: Director Brett Ratner's very strange short film from when he was a student at NYU, "What Ever Happened To Mason Reese?". The film starts off with an intro from the director and commentary from the director is also available. The film itself....well, it's just strange, but it's nice to have on the disc. Trailer: Of course, the trailer.(letterboxed at 2.35:1) Cast/Crew: Very nice biographies of the cast/crew. Music Videos: 2 music videos. DVD-ROM: The screenplay, an interactive game and web links(available only to Windows DVD-ROM computer users) MENUS: Sharp animated menus that start with a very funny piece of dialogue from Chris Tucker. Grades: The Movie:A- Picture Quality:A- Sound Quality:A- Extras:A Menus:A Overall:A
This review was originally posted at the website "A Guide To Current Film/DVD".
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Summary: its cool
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Summary: A great movie
Review: Very funny and energetic. Also, the DVD version has a lot of extra features including "The Making of" and some extra outtakes, which were nice. I definitely recommend it!
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Summary: An Action & Comedy HIT!!!!!!
Review: Chan & Tucker team up for an "off the hook" preformance. All that can be said about this move if OFF THE HOOK! Soundtrack, Cast, Plot, Action, and Funny as Hell! It's only better on DVD. A 20min film, 19 deleted scenes, Easter Eggs (Gamers know what these are) And a full lenght Dru Hill Video. This movie has surely brought African Americans & Asians closer together. Chan has brought Asians & African Americans to the for-front of Hollywood!
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Summary: Ingenious Casting Saves Formulaic Plot
Review: I can imagine the meat heads at New Line, thinking this one, coming up with ideas for a story, which to them seemed original, only because it takes ideas from other movies and throws them into one with a different title. But some genious came up with the idea of casting Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan together, a movie I never would have thought up in a million years, just because of how opposite they are. And you want to know something, it works. Chan is of course his usual charming, lightening fast self (although who only has one trademark "use/save a prop" fight scene) and Tucker is his, well, usual charming lightening fast self, as he talks his way through anything. A perfect, unlikely teaming which was wild fun.--wcg
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