Rush Hour 3

Rush Hour 3 is a 2007 American buddy action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner, written by Jeff Nathanson, and starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Max von Sydow, Hiroyuki Sanada, Noémie Lenoir, Yvan Attal and Youki Kudoh. It is the third installment in the Rush Hour series.

Plot
After a failed assassination attempt to Chinese Ambassador Solon Han for trying to reveal information about the Triads at the World Criminal Court in Los Angeles, Chief Inspector Lee and LAPD Detective James Carter find themselves headed to Paris, France to investigate the mysterious Shy Shen before the Triads succeed in killing Han for revealing secret information about the crime syndicate to the public.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The action and humor is much weaker than the first two films.
 * 2) Things happen due to coincidence such as when Carter meets Geneviève because of her beauty when it turns out she has great importance to the plot later on and when Reynard shows up to Lee's hotel room out of nowhere to tell him about Shy Shen.
 * 3) The movie introduces Lee's foster brother, Kenji, who was never mentioned in the previous movies. He grew up in an orphanage with Lee despite the previous movie stated that his father died five years prior from Ricky Tan.
 * 4) At the ending in Rush Hour 2, Lee and Carter were on their way to New York City to be away from doing policework, but this film doesn't take place there and instead the setting takes place in Los Angeles and later Paris (although their trip to NYC was briefly mentioned).
 * 5) The cab driver George has shockingly rushed character development from reluctantly driving Carter and Lee from the airport due to him not liking Americans, to driving like a madman trying to protect them due to Carter telling him that he's a "super spy".
 * 6) Speaking of George, he shoots Reynard in the back; saving Lee's, Carter's, and Geneviève's lives. He tells them that he followed them, but it should not be possible because Lee and Carter were gliding from the Eiffel Tower while holding a flag which landed them much further away from the tower.
 * 7) Characters that return from the first movie have their appearances wasted:
 * 8) *Chinese Ambassador Han is only in the first 10 minutes of the film. After he is shot by Kenji, he is never seen again.
 * 9) *Captain Bill Diel is in only one scene and it's him scolding at Carter for his reckless driving.
 * 10) * Soo-Yung gets the most screen time out of the three characters, but it's still not much of the film. She stays at the Hospital with her father at the beginning of the film, then near the climax of the film she ends up getting herself kidnapped like in the first film this time by the Triads.
 * 11) Carter and Lee go their separate ways after Lee doesn't think of Carter as a brother, but 10 minutes later they rejoin as if nothing happened and is never brought up again.
 * 12) Carter is flanderized into an irresponsible jerk in this film:
 * 13) *He dances to music he's listening to while directing traffic in a busy Los Angeles intersection which causes cars to hit each other.
 * 14) *He forces two woman to go on a date with him and Lee by not returning their driver licenses.
 * 15) *He puts 6 Iranians in jail for a week for suspecting them to be terrorists when they are scientists from UCLA.
 * 16) *He accidently shoots Lee's girlfriend Isabella from Rush Hour 2 (who does not return for this film).
 * 17) *He threatens to shoot George in the face because he doesn't like Halle Berry and forces him to sing the American national anthem.
 * 18) *When Geneviève takes off her wig to reveal Shy Shen, Carter claims that she is a man.
 * 19) *He also appears to be far more perverted and dirty-minded than in the previous two films, mainly towards women.
 * 20) Horrible ending: Lee and Carter knock out Commissaire Revi by punching him in the face in front of the police and dance away from them while the Edwin Starr song "War" plays. Sure he deserved it after he wanted to take credit for Shy Shen not being in the hands of the Triads and torturing them for possessing a gun once they arrived at Paris, but what they did could have locked them up in prison!

Good Qualities

 * 1) The I am Yu and fighting the Giant Chinese Man scene is arguably the most memorable scene of the movie.
 * 2) Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan still have great chemistry on screen like the other two movies.
 * 3) The blooper reel that plays during the credits is hilarious.

Reception
Rush Hour 3 received mostly negative reviews from critics. Fans unanimously consider this to be the weakest of the Rush Hour trilogy. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a rotten score of 18% with the consensus "Rush Hour 3 is a tired rehash of the earlier films, and a change of scenery can't hide a lack of new ideas". On IMDb it has a user rating of 6.2, the lowest score out of the three movies. On Metacritic, it has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Due to the box office success, a fourth movie has been planned but nothing has come as of yet with Brett Ratner thinking that it would not be made due to thinking Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan would be too expensive to return. After the sexual allegations coming from multiple women, it seems unlikely that the sequel would be made with Ratner involved. The latest update is from April 2019 where Chris Tucker says that the film is still possible but nothing is in pre-production.

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