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Jackie Chan thought 'Rush Hour' was terrible when he first saw it

Rush Hour is a classic. The culture difference was the whole back bone of the movie.

2 and 3 are cash in dog shit though.
He was correct.

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Kaizer

Banned
God, I need to watch the Rush Hour movies again, it’s been too long. I also remember liking the Shanghai Noon & Shanghai Knighs movies he made with Owen Wilson, wonder if they still hold up.
 
Rush Hour 1 - Wonderful surprise
Rush Hour 2 - I still remember going with my family and laughing my ass off
Rush Hour 3 - What the hell is this?
 
First one I like fine, but I really loved the second one. Used to watch that all the time when it was on TV (USA, TNT, or one of those kinds of channels).
 
Honestly,I think the Shanghai films are way better (Knights I would put ahead of many of his post golden age films), but Rush Hour 1 is still on the top half of his post mid-90's work. A lot of the humor is great, and I dont think Chris Tucker has had a better role since.
 

Falchion

Member
Well he must be a great actor then because the blooper reel during the credits made it seem like they both had a blast filming it.
 

sibarraz

Banned
I always thought that Jackie Chan knew english from a young, I cabt believe that he made this movie with a low english level
 
They're really fun movies but in terms of action set pieces they fall well below what used to be his standard before he went Hollywood, and occasionally (like a single fight scene in New Police Story for example) here and there afterward when he did a movie in HK after that.

Since he doesn't really care about carefully crafted fight scenes any longer, though, I'd love to see him do more fun American-style action movies in the RH vein. Shane Black could be a great mix like was mentioned earlier.
 

kunonabi

Member
God, I need to watch the Rush Hour movies again, it’s been too long. I also remember liking the Shanghai Noon & Shanghai Knighs movies he made with Owen Wilson, wonder if they still hold up.

the humor in Shanghai Noon holds up while Shangai Knights still fares pretty well in the action department.
 

A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
Rush Hour 1 is fine as a buddy cop movie that happens to have Jackie Chan in it and Chris Tucker isn't completely annoying in it.

Every other joke in 2 is "BLACK PEOPLE, GET IT?" or "CHINESE PEOPLE, GET IT?". It's shit.

They're both old and doughy in 3 and I don't even want to think about any of it.
 

Bleepey

Member
RH3 has some funny jokes but I can recognise its flaws. RH1 and 2 are classics though. Basically

RH2
Rh1
Drive (Mark Dacascos film is the spiritual prequel to RH, I legit think this movie is a classic)
Martial Law (yeah I went there)



Rh3




RH TV series. This like Iron Fist are one of the biggest wastes of potential I have seen on TV. The humour was OK but not great but the action was atrocious. You got a trained martial artists and went Edward Scissorhands on the editing. What were they doing?
 
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