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Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, the best comedic duo since Lethal Weapon bring us Rush Hour. A classic action movie that brings great action as well as awesome comedy that makes you laugh every minute. Chris Tucker has always been one of my favorite comedians, even before I saw Rush Hour, so it was great to see him in Rush Hour. I know a lot of people find him annoying, but I thought he was just so funny. He showed off his talents in Rush Hour. Not only him, but this is the film that is making Jackie Chan into a world wide super star. His stunts are simply incredible. 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. The story was just pure entertainment and really kept me on the edge.

Lee is a body guard to the Chinese ambassador and is also a close friend, he also is a teacher to his daughter, Soo Yong. The ambassador goes to the United States with his daughter, but she is kidnapped by an evil man of the Chinese Consol. They want 50 million dollars in return, but the ambassador thinks that Lee should be involved, so he sends for him, but the F.B.I. doesn't want him near the case. So they hire L.A.P.D. screw up, James Carter, to babysit him. But together, the fastest hands in the east meets the fastest mouth in the west, they must learn to work together despite their complete opposite personalities and get the girl back.

Rush Hour is a guaranteed classic down the lines somewhere, I'm sure. It's already spawned a sequel and it's been a success. Chris and Jackie are such a great team, I was really impressed with their chemistry. My favorite scene is where Lee plays "War" by Edwin Starr in Carter's car, and he doesn't know how to say the lyrics correctly, and Carter shows him some moves, it was such a classic scene that brought me down to the floor laughing. I highly recommend Rush Hour, it's all in good fun and it'll give you more than a few good laughs.

8/10

I enjoyed Rush Hour very much, yes it is a little silly, but what it is really is harmless fun. The two leads, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are an inspired double act, though I will say, that sometimes Tucker's mouth runs away with him, so I didn't always understand what he was saying at times. The clever plot, involving an international kidnapping, actually allows Chan to do what he does best, but I did wish there was a little more of it. The script is irreverent, if only let down by what seemed like some improvisation from Tucker, that sometimes got off target. There are some excellent camera work and stunts, making this a hugely enjoyable film, not as good as Shanghai Noon, but a delight for fans of Chan. 8/10 Bethany Cox.

This movie is pure comedy from the beginning to the end. You will have a good laugh thanks to Chris Tucker in his role of Carter, a clumsy LA cop. The city of Los Angeles is spectacular and is a great scenario for this entertaining movie. Jackie Chan at its best kicking asses everywhere with an outstanding humble attitude. 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. The great diversity there is in America singles out in a city like Los Angeles when we go through Chinatown. And fortunately, the movie brings us out there. Interesting cultures melt into a huge variety of ethnicities that make anything possible to happen. This is why America is so interesting and wonderful and we from abroad love her as a beautiful land.

All in all, this is a worth-seeing Hollywood movie and probably you would like to watch it several times!

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. I didn't find any of it boring. It's a good concept, to combine the humor of Chris Tucker with the martial arts of Jackie Chan. This movie is for anyone who's into action, martial arts & humor. 7/10

I wanted to give it one or two more stars but it just wasn't doing it for me. A solid hour and thirty minute buddy cop genre. It's exactly what you'd expect and nothing more. The fighting scenes were decent enough, the story was predictable but not in a bad way and the comedy aged a little poorly.

1998 me would have laughed till I cried. 2022 me didn't care for it as much but that's okay. I've never watched the other Rush Hour films but I may give them a shot since this was a good foundation. I'd even argue that the gag reel at the end was better than the film itself. With that said it's a good little time capsule of what action films were in the late 90s.

I love a good buddy-cop flick and it'd been quite some time since I'd seen one, so when I saw this floating around on Hulu I knew I needed to rectify passing on it for so many years. Chan and Tucker make for a great pair, and while the story here is pretty generic, it's their chemistry that keeps you glued. Come for the jokes and fun action sequences, not the story.

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. When a consul's daughter gets kidnapped, Tucker gets hired to take the case, but Chan gets brought in from Hong Kong to assist. Naturally, they have a very hard time cooperating.

I guess that a major aspect of these movies is that you shouldn't try to take them seriously; just accept them as completely crazy. With Chan doing his martial arts and Tucker being a loudmouth, it's a great time from start to finish. Also starring Elizabeth Pena, Chris Penn, and Tom Wilkinson. I liked the sequel equally.

I have memories of seeing this way back (in the theater no less) and enjoying myself. Guns, stunts, Hong Kong action, it was everything an uncultured teenager needed.

Now while Chris Tucker's Eddie-Murphy-on-speed shtick gets old quickly for adult me, there's nothing like a Jackie Chan action scene. I don't care how much rehearsing and safeguards go into his stuntwork, that stuff is still exciting today.

How they squeezed a franchise outta this is beyond me, but it's a serviceable buddy cop movie.

Rush Hour is fast, funny and Fantastic. It is 2 hours of non stop entertainment. I have seen the sequel, No where near the Classic. Jackie Chan is amazing as the martial arts expert cop from Hong Kong. Chris Tucker is Hilarious as the fast talking cop from America. What happens when two people like this meet, Excitement and entertainment. This is Jackie's Best Hollywood Movie. I have seen a few Chris Tucker movie, this is his Best performance. I hope the third in the series will entertain as the First. If you have not seen this movie, then i recommend this movie. A great action comedy movie for all type of audience to enjoy. One of the best cop buddy movies since Lethal Weapon.

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are a great comedic duo in this exciting buddy cop adventure. Jackie Chan, in particular, has fantastic comedic timing and is a true treasure. The plot is pretty straightforward, but it's more so about the chemistry between Tucker and Chan, which definitely delivers. Rush Hour is a classic entry in the buddy cop genre.

Wonderful film! Lots of laughs and action. These two have the best chemistry I have seen in a long time. Chris Tucker is hilarious, and Jackie Chan always entertains. This film delivers in every way!! Rent today...

The Chinese consul to America has had his daughter kidnapped and the kidnapper wants $50M. To help find his daughter he requests Detective Lee (Jackie Chan) from Hong Kong. The FBI doesn't want an outside agency sniffing around their active situation, so they request a liaison (babysitter) from the LAPD. For the role of tour guide the LAPD sends them Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker).

Carter is a loud mouth, a braggart, and generally annoying to everyone he encounters. If anything has gone wrong then usually he is the culprit. Lee is the straight man. He's by the book and he's highly effective. The two of them are trying to find Juntao, a crimelord from China who has brought his criminal ways to America. If they can find him, then they might just be able to find the consul's daughter.

This was a breakout movie for both actors. Chan had been around a lot longer than Tucker doing mostly Hong Kong movies, but he'd never had a hit like this one before. Tucker had "Friday," "Dead Presidents," and "Money Talks" to his credit; good movies, but not blockbusters. Yes this may be another buddy cop movie, but Chris Tucker is hilarious. And that's the difference.

We love Jackie Chan. We have all his movies. But Chris Tucker is just too silly and ruins Jackie's movie. Jackie should have used Will Smith or Eddie Murphy.

The silliness detracts from the story. All 3 Rush Hour movies are the same for us, the worst of all Chan's movies, including Jackie's early Chinese work, which at least were consistent in the humor. Tuckers humor is High School clown and does not mesh with Jackie's. He should work with Jack Black or other silly comedians. You can not relate the movie theme to Tuckers off the wall immature humor.

I am not saying Chris Tucker is not a good comedian as he has good wit, insight and humor in his own right, It is just he does not fit well with Jackie's self effacing Serious and clean movies. He acts his part seriously and Tucker is just ad-libbing off the wall jokes like he is on a talk show and it just does not fit in the movie.

I give the rating 4 out of ten because of Jackie Chan and the other hard working actors doing the best they can while Chris cracks jokes that have nothing to do with the movie.

This martial arts movie was action packed and funny. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan make a great team in this movie. Jackie Chan brings the action and Chris Tucker brings the comedy. The fight scenes are awesome and it has a great story to it. I recommend that people should see this movie if you haven't yet. You'll enjoy it.

The young daughter of a Chinese diplomat is kidnapped. He insists that the FBI use his trusted Hong Kong detective Lee (Jackie Chan). However the FBI dumps him on LAPD detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) to babysit.

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker form a great team. Their chemistry is evident right away. Brett Ratner brings out all the hilarity with some culture clash humor and loudmouth Tucker.

The story is passable. There isn't anything original going on here. It's really just an excuse for Chris Tucker to make an ass of himself, and allow Jackie Chan to do some crazy fighting moves.

The genre "buddy cop" had already proved in theaters that it was a formula that worked, with its greatest exponent being the "Deadly Machine" franchise, which, incidentally, arrived in its fourth and final episode in the same year that "Rush Hour" was released. ". The formula is quite simple: bring together two officers of very different styles and personalities and place you in the middle of an action-packed investigation. Rush Hour began as a specific script written in 1995 by screenwriter Ross LaManna. The script was sold by William Morris of LaManna's agent, Alan Gasmer, to Hollywood Pictures, a division of the Walt Disney Company, with Arthur Sarkissian added as producer.

After hiring director Ratner and developing the project for more than a year with producers like Sarkissian, Jonathan Glickman and Roger Birnbaum, Disney Studios boss Joe Roth turned the project around, citing concerns about the $ 34 million budget and Chan's appeal to the American public. At the time, Martin Lawrence was connected to the project. Several studios were interested in acquiring the project. New Line Cinema was confident in Ratner, having done Money Talks with him, so they committed to a budget and a Rush Hour start date. After Rumble's success in the Bronx, Brett Ratner wanted to put Jackie Chan in a thriller, not as a co-star or helper, but on an equal footing with an American star. Ratner flew to South Africa, where Chan was filming and presented the film. A few days later, Chan agreed to star in the film and not long after flew to Los Angeles and met Chris Tucker. Ratner credited Tucker with obtaining his first feature film, Money Talks, and thought Tucker and Chan would make a great team.

In Hong Kong, on the last night of British control over the site, Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), a close friend of Consul Han (Tzi Ma), manages to prevent precious pieces of China's history from being smuggled out of the country. Two years later, crime boss Juntao (Tom Wilkinson) decides to take revenge and kidnaps Han's daughter, who now lives in Los Angeles as a Chinese diplomat. Since he doesn't trust the FBI, Han calls Lee to help him rescue his daughter. But FBI officials do not want any outside help in the case and, to prevent Lee from getting in the way of investigations, they appoint a rebel and talkative detective, James Carter (Chris Tucker), to accompany him. The FBI's intention is for Carter to keep Lee as far away from the case as possible, but he doesn't know that. Until, when Carter finds out the real intention of his assignment in the case, he decides to help Lee to finally find the kidnapped girl.

Knowing how to explore the best qualities of comedians was a big hit in the inspired script by Ross LaManna and Jim Kouf. Jackie plays Lee, a trusted inspector for the newly appointed Chinese diplomat consul in the U.S. When the official representative's daughter is kidnapped in Los Angeles, Lee is called in to personally assist in investigations against the FBI's will. Jackie's arrival in America also marks his first role in the English language, a necessary factor to accompany the incessant chatter of Agent Carter, his partner in the feature. Tucker's character is a big-time member of the Los Angeles police department who is called to the case, but with the sole purpose of distracting and removing the unwanted Chinese inspector from the investigation. The ungrateful assignment touches Carter's pride, who then decides to solve the kidnapping alone, only with Lee in tow.

Carter's surprise at discovering Inspector Lee's skills is similar to that of the large world audience, who until then had been unaware of Jackie Chan's work, since the reach of Asian cinema was not as great as that of Hollywood. The Chinese choreograph and perform their own fight scenes without any stunt, even in the most dangerous parts. Above that, his differential is still in the charisma of the shy smile and the awkwardness that appears both in the performance and in the style of the fights, when using any improvised object against the enemies and preferring hand to hand combat to the use of weapons. Such characteristics make Jackie's persona look like that of an ordinary man, favoring the identification of the audience and justifying his position as one of the most successful artists in cinema. The director Brett Ratner does an excellent job, both in the comics and in the action. While the "Rush Hour" action revolves around Chan with scenes involving creative and extremely well-choreographed struggles, the comic center stays with Tucker, who fits joke after joke with his hysterical way of the well-meaning idiot who doesn't know how to stay quiet. As a spectator, it is difficult to differentiate when the expressive actor's memorable phrases appear from the script or are offhand, but the result is always hilarious. The chatterer lines up references to names, dances and pop culture songs and still has space to stage a reference to "The Seven Samurai", when he doesn't see where a coup like the drunken samurai from Kurosawa came from. Allusions to Asian cinema are also present in the setting up of the prologue in Hong Kong, in the instrumental composition of the score and, of course, in the plot and gags imported from previous films by Jackie Chan himself.

The feature is different from others in the genre for being able to create its own style through a very interesting mix, which even gave rise to others similar, changing only the time and setting, such as "Hit or Run", also starring Jackie Chan shortly afterwards. In addition to the opposites that complement each other very well, the insertion of jokes and situations related to cultural differences gains space, as it could not be otherwise. While Detective Carter makes fun of the American way of living compared to Orientals, of blacks "Never touch a black man's radio", and of the periphery in general, Detective Lee shows a typical Chinese food for Carter to eat.

The great chemistry between the characters of Jackie and Chris, both in the dialogues and in the action scenes, brings to "Rush Hour" a sweet and fun essence that sets it apart from other titles that combine comedy and martial arts. Brand of Chan's films, the display of recording errors (bloopers) during the credits, to end the film experience with a positive beat, here it wouldn't even be necessary due to the more than pleasant final result. The interesting thing is that years later, Chan stated in an interview that, when he did this first part of the franchise, he just wanted to test the North American film market and that he did not have high expectations: "When we finished filming, I felt very disappointed, because it wasn't a movie I liked and I didn't want the action scenes involved. I felt that the action style was very Americanized, and I didn't understand American humor," said the actor in a blog on his website.

Rush Hour was Chan's first film to reach $ 100 million at the box office, reaching $ 141 million., Making the film a box office success and received positive reviews from critics. The film has great action scenes even though there are some unnecessary ones that only serve to fill space in the duration of the film, such as the scenes in which Lee tries to get rid of Carter soon after being received at the airport, proof that the script is too simplified and moreover, it fails to have a cartoon villain and a climax that does not excite. But despite these flawed points in the script, the film works because of the rapport between the Tucker/Chan duo, the humor and the excellent choreographed action sequences. It is an extremely fun and exciting film that is always worth revisiting.

This is the start of rush hour, and is very funny, have alot of jokes and a good script. So yes, is a classic already.

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

One of my all time favorite movies. The dynamic duo of Chan and Tucker is timeless, you can watch over and over and still laugh. The LA laid back vibe of James Carter paired with the by the book badass ninja of Lee makes for an awesome experience. The most quotable movie of all time, "it's not you all, it's y'all"

Well, let's just be honest here and say that the 1998 movie "Rush Hour" is definitely a classic action comedy of East meets West.

Writers Ross LaManna and Jim Kouf managed to put together a story that incorporated elements of action and comedy in a very entertaining manner. And it was a story that was as entertaining as it was enjoyable as director Brett Ratner brought the story to the screen.

Initially, back when the movie was first released, I was a bit skeptical about pitching Jackie Chan opposite of Chris Tucker, but the duo actually worked out well together, as they are quite the opposite of one another and the chemistry between the two just was marvelous on the screen. Whereas Chris Tucker brings the more classic comedy to the movie, in the likes of Eddie Murphy in "Beverly Hills Cop", Jackie Chan brought his usual impressive action feats and stunts while managing to put in his usual charm and comedy elements as well.

"Rush Hour" definitely has an interesting cast ensemble. Aside from Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, the movie also has the likes of Tom Wilkinson, Chris Penn and Tzi Ma on the cast list.

Not only is the storyline and plot entertaining and fun, but the dialogue was also good, especially the banter between Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

This is a fast-paced and entertaining action comedy for sure, and it is one that manages to endure the passing of time. I have watched the movie numerous times since it was initially released back in 1998, and it actually still holds up here late in 2020.

If you are not familiar with the "Rush Hour" movies, then I can more than warmly and highly recommend that you sit down and strap yourself in as you embark on a fast paced action ride in the company of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.

My rating of "Rush Hour" is a seven out of ten stars. This movie provides good and solid entertainment.

This film has aged very well and I can even argue it to be Jackie Chan's best role. Chan is probably at his peak in this one. And Chris Tucker! Where the heck is he? We need a million and one films with Chris Tucker in them! How can Tucker not be all over the place by now?

A classic. funny and entertaining with good and creative fighting (about 7 viewings)

Hugely disappointing waste of Jackie Chan's talents, this film should be avoided like the plague. Being an enormous Jackie Chan fan I had very high hopes for this. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. Chris Tucker is the most irritating man on the planet bar none and unfortunately Jackie is reduced to the role of amusing little foreign man which is unforgiveable. The stunts and action sequences are forgettable, coming as secondary to the dreadful interaction between the two main stars.

I feel quite gutted that Jackie Chan's bit Western break has come to this and it is sad that most people will be introduced to his vast talents with this truly awful film.