Rush Hour

Plot synopsis:
On the last day of British rule in Hong Kong late 1997, Detective Inspector Lee of the Hong Kong Police Force leads a raid at a shipping bar wharf, hoping to arrest the mysterious crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang, Juntao's right-hand man, who manages to escape. However, Lee successfully recovers numerous Chinese cultural treasures stolen by Juntao, which he presents as a farewell victory to his departing superiors: Chinese Consul Solon Han and British Commander Thomas Griffin.
Shortly after Han arrives in the United States to take up his new diplomatic post in Los Angeles, his daughter, Soo Yung, is kidnapped by Sang while on her way to her first day of school. The FBI informs Consul Han about the incident. Han calls in Lee to assist in the case. The FBI is afraid that the injury or death of Lee would result in negative attention internationally, decide to pawn him off on the LAPD just to keep him out of their way. The arrogant, reckless and loudmouthed detective, James Carter is tricked into doing this but Carter makes a plan to solve the case himself when he finds out that he has been given a mundane task as punishment for botching a sting operation.
Carter meets Lee at Los Angeles International Airport and proceeds to take him on a sightseeing tour of LA, simultaneously keeping Lee away from the embassy and contacting several of his underworld informants about the kidnapping. Lee finally escapes and makes his way to the Chinese Consulate, where an anxious Han and a group of FBI agents are awaiting news about his daughter. While being reprimanded by Agent-in-charge Warren Russ, Carter accidentally involves himself in a phone conversation with Sang, where he arranges a ransom drop of $50 million in a couple of hours.
The FBI traces the call to a warehouse and sends in a team of agents only to have them killed by a bomb. Spotting Sang nearby, Lee and Carter give chase, but Sang escapes, dropping the detonator in the process. Carter's colleague, LAPD bomb expert Tania Johnson, helps them trace the detonator to Clive, a man previously arrested by Carter. Clive is guilt-tripped by Lee into revealing his business relationship with Juntao whom he met a restaurant in Chinatown and this earns Carter's trust in Lee. Carter goes to the restaurant alone where he sees a surveillance video of Juntao carrying Soo-Yung into a van. Lee arrives and rescues Carter, but the two are taken off the case after the FBI blames them for ruining the ransom drop with Lee being sent back to Hong Kong. Despite this setback, Carter appeals to Johnson for assistance and sneaks onboard Lee's plane, persuading Lee to help finish the case and stop Juntao. Griffin later involves himself in the case, revealing more about the HKPF's past with Juntao's syndicate.
At the opening of a Chinese art exhibition at the Los Angeles Convention Center, which Han and Griffin are overseeing, the now $70 million ransom is being delivered. Carter, Lee and Johnson enter disguised as guests, where Carter distracts the guests into leaving for safety. This angers the FBI, but also blows Griffin's cover, as Lee catches him walking over to a bar and accepting a remote for the detonator from Sang. He and Johnson both conclude that Griffin is Juntao because Carter recognizes him from a surveillance tape in Chinatown. Griffin threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung and demands the money be paid in full in compensation to the loss of the priceless Chinese artifacts he worked so hard to preserve. However, Carter manages to sneak out, locate her in the van, drives it into the building and brings her within range of Griffin, knowing that setting it off would kill him as well.
Johnson manages to get the vest off Soo Yung while Griffin heads toward the roof with the bag of money. Lee takes the vest and pursues Griffin while Carter shoots Sang dead in a gunfight. Lee eventually catches up to Griffin, resulting in a brief battle that culminates in the two dangling from the rafters under the roof. Griffin, holding onto the vest, falls to his death when the vest breaks, but before Lee falls, Carter is able to place a large flag underneath and catch him safely.
Han and Soo Yung are reunited, and Han sends Carter and Lee on vacation together to Hong Kong as a reward for their actions. Before Carter leaves, Agents Russ and Whitney offer him a position in the FBI, which he rudely refuses. Carter gets on the airplane with Lee, who starts singing Edwin Starr's "War", annoying Carter.

Tags: comedy, murder, bleak, violence, humor, action, revenge, entertaining

Review:
I think Americans love Jackie Chan because he's so nice and great person.The main reason why I like this movie is the wonderful duo they play, constantly arguing, while walking around exciting California, USA, about everything, but in the meantime they are loyal partners.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, the best comedic duo since Lethal Weapon bring us Rush Hour.
Rush Hour is one of those very fun action/comedy movies that I'm sure you'll enjoy if you love movies like Lethal Weapon or 48 Hours.
Obviously, "Rush Hour" is mostly just another buddy comedy, but there's so much hilarious dialogue between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, that it's all worthwhile.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are a definite revelation!The cast in RUSH HOUR prove themselves worthy of their roles.
Newcomer Julie Hsu is also fabulous as a hostage who proves to be more difficult for the bad guys than they can handle...RUSH HOUR has top notch stunts mixed with one-of-a-kind comical moments which help make this film an enlightening combination of action and comedy, with a dash of Chan's fantastic skill work.The Chan-Tucker collaboration is the best on-screen duo since Abbott & Costello!
Again, the action in RUSH HOUR is no short of exhilarating with outrageous sequences such as Chan trying to protect a valuable vase from the wrath of the bad guys.Great dance moves by Tucker, but nobody impresses the audience like Jackie Chan leaping from place to place, mowing down the bad guys!
This film is Jackie Chan's and Chris Tucker's finest hour.
Which it does - there's not as much action for Jackie Chan as I would have liked and his fight scenes feel toned down in favour of Tucker's manic comedy (this was partially reversed in RH2).
The bad guys are quite characterless but it doesn't really matter as the lead duo manage to carry the film.Overall a good buddy cop movie that is a good vehicle for both Chan and Tucker and plays on both their strengths to good effect.
Even though this movie might be a bit conventional, it's thoroughly entertaining, with nice action scenes, cool martial arts fighting & a good sense of humor.
It's a good concept, to combine the humor of Chris Tucker with the martial arts of Jackie Chan.
A funny cop buddy film, with a good chemistry between Chan and Tucker.
Some of the martial arts/karate that Chan does in the film is impressive, just like in all his films, and Tucker does a good job playing the loud mouth(even if he did get out of hand sometimes).
After being disappointed (originally) with Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element, as I was with that entire movie, I didn't want to see Rush Hour thinking it would be mainly a Chris Tucker vehicle, even though I was/am a huge Jackie Chan fan.Well, I rewatched The Fifth Element and actually liked it a whole lot more and was willing to give the 1998 opposite buddy cop movie a shot.
Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as two cops that have nothing in common working together to rescue the daughter of a Chinese diplomat who has been captured while also arresting a crime lord.
I was suspicious of Tucker, but as long as it was the new Chan movie it ought to be okay.Right ?Wrong !I found myself forced into one of the most annoying fake interracial buddy-buddy action/comedy blockbusters I have ever had the displeasure to had to sit through.Rush Hour is nothing more than a Chris Tucker Star Vehicle with Jackie reduced to a "Chinaman" sidekick.
That's all good and fine if you're under such heavy medication that you think Tucker is actually funny but after two minutes of him doing his little Eddie Murphy rip off routine I was ready to climb on a rooftop with an AK-47 and let justice rain from the sky.Throw in a mentally challenged plot, bad acting, the old "where did all the money from the big budget go ?" complaint and a director who couldn't direct an action scene to save his life and you got this feature length misery.If you're ready to see a real Jackie Chan movie, go to your local video-shop and rent Operation Condor.
The movie is very awesome comedy.The direction by bredd ratner is good.The screenplay is good.The editing was OK.The acting was awesome from Jackie Chan and cris Tucker.The story is good.The story is about a honest hong kong police inspector teams up with a reckless and loudmouthed LAPD dectective to rescue The Chinese counsels kidnapped daughter wioe trying to arrest the dangerous crime lord along the way.The comedy was awesome.Both the 3 parts were good.Overall a must watch comedy movie and a must watch for Jackie chan fans.Now I am finally waiting for rush hour 4 which is announced and going to be released..
'Rush Hour' is an average, generic action/comedy movie that is saved by the duo of Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, who are frankly the only thing about this film that makes it somewhat interesting.
Although Jackie Chan is amazing, Chris Tucker is the real star, a real 'brother' with heaps of attitude and some of the funniest lines in film history.
Rush Hour is a great movie with a well written storyline and a very talented comedic cast.The movie is filled with a ton of hilarious scenes from start to finish,most of that coming from Chris Tucker,who apparently improves most of his lines,which is so impressive because there hilarious most of the time.Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan make a great team,Tucker is the comedic person and Chan is the action star,it's a great combination and it also helped that the two seemed to really enjoy making this movie together.Rush Hour is a hilarious movie that I would recommend to anyone looking for a good comedy or action.A marital arts expert cop and hapless LAPD detective must retrieve the kidnapped daughter of a diplomat.Best Performance: Chris Tucker.
Huh rush hour is very boring all it is are two cops go after a crime syndicate.the film is tripe and has lame humor which is all i saw Chris tucker was awful and not even funny.
15 years ago, director Brett Ratner and stars Jackie Chan & Chris Tucker unleashed the first film in the "Rush Hour" series unto the masses.
The film has an oddly timeless feeling, adding much to its appeal and charm as one of the better "Buddy Cop" films to emerge in the past 20 years.Chan stars as Detective Inspector Lee, a Hong Kong Police Officer who is brought to the US to help his friend, a Chinese Consul whose daughter has been kidnapped.
However, Lee's steadfast dedication to his duty soon brings the two mis-matched officers back into the case, and they realize they may be the only one's capable of saving the kidnapped child.Chan and Tucker's performances and chemistry are the beating heart of the film, and are what makes it function and come off so well.
But even that cannot diminish the fun performances and good filmmaking behind this movie."Rush Hour" may not be the best film ever made, but it's a blast to watch, and has excellent entertainment value.
Although a simple plot the pace of the movie, dialogue, situations and above all the chemistry between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker is fantastic.
Bruce Willis is a pretty bad actor but die hard doesn't have a 6.8/10 This is probably one of the funniest movies i've ever seen and Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are a great match.
Rush Hour is a fine film from the 90s that even after you watch now, you will still be laughing hard, the movie came out same year that Lethal Weapon 4 was released, which also starred a martial art actor Jet Li. So for me as Lethal Weapon stopped, this two picked up from where it stopped and are keeping the buddy cop flame burning.www.lagsreviews.com.
This is a far better movie then a lot of his other Hollywood flicks like The Tuxedo, The Medallion and The Forbidden Kingdom.I'm not normally a Chris Tucker fan since I usually find him to be really annoying but it works well here in this movie, Chris and Jackie have great chemistry together.
This film is one awesome venture with the presence of both Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker helping to create a winner for the action genre.
This film is one awesome venture with the presence of both Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker helping to create a winner for the action genre.
Newcomer Julie Hsu is also fabulous as a hostage who proves to be more difficult for the bad guys than they can handle...RUSH HOUR has top notch stunts mixed with one-of-a-kind comical moments which help make this film an enlightening combination of action and comedy, with a dash of Chan's fantastic skill work..
this is a pretty good movie.it's an action adventure comedy.there is a lot of action and the movie is fast paced.there isn't a lot of comedy,but comedy bits there are,are pretty funny.Jackie Chan's acrobatic,over the top cartoonish martial arts moves are funny.Chris Tucker's motor mouth character is pretty funny at times.also the teaming of Chan and Tucker is a great idea.they work well off each other.one could not be more opposite from the other.i liked their back and forth banter.the other thing i like about this movie is that even though there is some violence,it's not excessive,and there is a bit of coarse language,but not very much.for me,Rush Hour is a 7/10.
The two stars of the film, martial arts master Jackie Chan and comedian Chris Tucker make a great team for the big screen.
Tucker's high-pitched voice, facial expressions, and well-written lines in the screenplay bring about several laughs which keep us entertained whenever there's not a karate fight going on before us.Bottom line, "Rush Hour" is a very effective comedy-action film that stands high above others that were made before it and still to this day try to imitate its effective style.
The main point is that Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker make a great team for entertaining an audience.
although neither one of them will ever be as great as Eddy Murphy.In "Rush hour", Chris Tucker plays the total opposite of Jackie Chan which means: all talk but hardly any walk!
He is most famous for his role in "X-Men: The last stand" where he played a mutant who was able to sprout spikes from his body (which obviously makes it very hard for anyone to give him a hug without getting hurt.)In short: A simple yet intelligent comedy which is slightly different yet becomes a very original buddy cop movie due to the martial arts by Jackie Chan.
Rated PG-13 for sequences of action/violence and shootings, and for language.Rush Hour is a cop/buddy film in the vein of 48hrs starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.Two very funny actors in one very funny movie.Rush Hour is an entertaining film with some fun action scenes.The sequel Rush Hour 2 is also great but not as good as the first.I have not seen the third film yet.Rush Hour is about a cop from china who goes to America to help in the investigation of a man's daughter getting kidnapped.He is teamed up with a loud-mouth cop named Carter.At first they dislike each other but as they investigate further they start liking each other.Rush Hour is a hilarious cop film!.
Rush Hour is a good Action/Comedy that deserves the high rating it has on IMDb as Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker make an awesome team.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chans performance is incredibly good and deserves 10 percent of my rating.
The interaction of Lee and Carter, makes this movie a really fun one, entertaining, and with great action scenes with of course, a lot of martial arts with Jackie Chan's style (a particular typo of humor).
Really good action in two continents and good one and a half hour entertainment!ABOUT THE MOVIE: This movie is about two of the most rude police agents in the world; one from China (Chief Inspector Lee, represented by Jackie Chan), and the other from America (Detective James Carter, represented by Chris Tucker); in this funny movie they have to find and capture the terrorists behind the kidnapping of Soo Young (Julia Hsu), a little girl, daughter of the Chinese Consul in America (Consul Han, Tzi Ma); this girl was kidnapped by one of the Chinese mafias that looked for revenge against the consul, after he spoiled some drug operations that they where doing back in China; this mafia was leaded by Sang (Ken Leung) an evil and martial arts expert; the confidence that the consul has on Chief Inspector Lee, creates a quest of two continents in the search of the little girl, and where they start to find obscure relations between the Chinese and some people in high positions on some official departments of USA..
In this movie, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's combination was really fun.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker gave a great performance playing against each other and then deciding to join forces together and fight the real bad dudes in Los Angeles.
Jackie Chan, (Chief Inspector Lee),"San Wa",'05, visits the LAPD and is assigned a so called FBI pal, Chris Tucker,(Detective James Carter),"Jackie Brown",'97, who finds out the job he is assigned to is like a Babysitter for Inspector Lee. There is plenty of action and car chases as Lee is trying to locate a missing little gal who gets into the hands of some very bad dudes and there is plenty of people being killed through out the entire picture.
To me, Carter (Chris Tucker) and Lee (Jackie Chan) were very tough and funny guys.
Now, in conclusion, if you like Chris Tucker or Jackie Chan films, I highly recommend this movie.
Overall if your into a good buddy cop movie with Chan doing some nice stunts as always then you'll like this.
The dynamic duo started of with Rush Hour which, since I like action-comedy movies, is one of my favorites.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker I remember when this movie first came out.
Jackie Chan brings us his trademark martial arts skills as detective inspector Li, and Chris Tucker also give us his trademark skills playing James Carter as the world's most obnoxious and loud-mouthed schmuck.So here's the deal.
Jackie Chan's martial arts skills are as good as ever, and Chris Tucker is well, annoying.
The film's fun comes from the acting and leading charm of Chan and Tucker, who both make the movie all that more enjoyable and funny.
What you get with this kind of movies is a lot of action, some special moves and nice fighting scenes, but it doesn't take itself too serious.Even though I'm not the biggest fan of martial arts films, I have to admit that I had a good time watching this one.
Tucker is very good as the loud mouth screw up who doesn't like to work with a partner and Jackie Chan is very impressive with all his moves.
This movie can be described in 4 words: Hilarious Entertaining Good PlotJakie Chan and Chris Tucker prove to be the best Action Comedy team in this movie.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan actually make a pretty good team and help reclaim a kidnapped daughter, spiting the annoying, know-it-all FBI agents..
Jackie Chan plays a Chinese detective who is sent to California to solve a kidnapping, but the FBI wants none of his help so they hire Chris Tucker to babysit him.
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker make a great team and they will make you laugh in every scene they are in together.
Chris Tucker as Det. Carter with a big mouth and Jackie Chan as Det. Lee make Lethal Weapon 4 look like a girl scout cookie.
What was different from this film and Rush Hour 2 was the actually plot that made it interesting to watch, not to mention Jackie Chan kicking ass as he and detective carter try to get bad guys.3 stars.
Naturally, they're going to resolve their differences and kill all the bad guys.I watch Jackie Chan movies for jaw-dropping martial arts action and amazing stunts.
But aside from those two scenes, there's not a lot of great action, and that's partially where the film disappoints.Without the heaps of adrenaline-pumping fights, we have Chris Tucker as the comic "relief."  Is he funny?
Thrills laughs and action collide as funny guy Chris Tucker and action man Jackie Chan star in Rush Hour.
Chan is good (like most of the times in his movies) with his ocasional laughs and fast action moves.
If only Tucker acted out his character in the sequel like he did in this film, then this and Rush Hour 2 would be a pair of good movies.
Great action scenes that amaze,even though you are supposed to be laughing at Tucker,and Chan.
I also liked the part when Jackie Chan, use his kartie stunts, he sure does a great job on that and it was excellent and yes Chris Tuckers, was funny and I love it and I think they should be partners forever.
After watching this movie I am sure Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan really make a great duet.
Personally, I liked the movie and thought that it was really funny, one of my favorite scenes is when Tucker and Chan sing the song, "War, what is it good for?
Jackie Chan has made movies in America before and this one probably comes closest to his Hong Kong films in the action sequences.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan worked good together on this movie.
This movie is very funny, and of course with Jackie Chan in, it is full of action.
Both Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan were great.
Both Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan were great.
I have never seen Chris Tucker in a movie before, but he did a very good job in "Rush Hour".