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Rush Hour 2 (Widescreen)

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i found this movie to be better than the first one.there's still lots
of action,but it's even funnier than the first.there's some really good
fight scenes,and Jackie Chan's moves are even more outrageous this time
around.the banter between Chan and Tucker is much funnier and more
natural.once again,although there is some violence it's not excessive
or gratuitous.i think there is also less coarse language than the
first,and like the first,there is no nudity,but there is a bit of
suggestiveness.overall,i though this movie was a great ride from start
to finish.it's even faster paced than the original,and Tucker and Chan
have even better general and comedic chemistry.for me,Rush Hour 2 is a
4/5

The orginal Rush Hour has some freshness, chemistry, and vitality to it, whereas RH-2 comes off as contrived and repetitious. Only for fanatics of Tucker or Chan.

I thought that the movie was good, but it suffers from Jackie trying to act like Tucker did in the first one... The Beach Boys in one example when Tucker lobs the CD out the car window. Tt seems that Lee was a big head in this one... Carter was really wanting a vacation, but ends up in a big case involving a man that likes bombs and cold blooded murder.

The nice thing about the movie is that we get to see Chris Tucker duke it out at the massage parlor and with the chick at the casino. Other then that it could have done better without the rectcled lines from the first film...

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.

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.

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.

RUSH HOUR 2: Comedy. Starring Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan. Directed by Brett Ratner. (PG-13. 93 minutes)

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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."

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Advisory: This film contains sexual situations and violence.

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.

This movie was actually really good. It was SO funny! I would really recommend this to any one who likes comedy!

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are just funny along with the action and banter between them you cannot miss with this movie.