The saying "Three's a Charm" is tossed around often many times. Very rarely can it be applied to a film of any genre. Return of the Jedi for example, is not better than the other two films of the original trilogy, however, it is still a great film. In the case of Rush Hour 3, unfortunatly it is more suffice to say its suffering from the "the Terrible Threes."
Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) are teaming up once again to investigate Triads, a Chinese equivalent of the American Mafia. It brings them to France where a French dancer (Noémie Lenoir) is believed to have the evidence that is connected to the criminals. As a result of this, all three are becoming targets of the Triads.
It should be stated on the record that I did enjoy both Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2. I found both to be great comedy films with a classic straight man and comedic foil for a contempory audience. Another fact that should be pointed out is that Rush Hour 2 made a good amount of its money right after 9/11 (the movie was released on August 3rd 2001), considering the state of America at that time. With Rush Hour 3, its the same gags with Chris Tucker being the stereotypical loudmouth black man, who always says something in a high-pitched yelp. It's as if the writers watched the first two films and copied everything that was good about it, yet something happened on the way to the forum and it turned out the opposite. The film is quite funny in some parts, other parts will are nothing more than a chuckle. But it's Chris Tucker who is responsible for both some of the funny parts and immensely unfunny parts. Chris Tucker becomess more and more of a caricature of himself in this film its almost at times sad to watch. This movie has other stereotypes as well that are particullary not funny. One of them being a Frenchman who is anti-American and believes that all Americans are nothing but war mongers.
If there is another thing disappointing about this movie, its Max von Sydow. He does absolutly nothing to further the story of the film. He seems to be more window dressing than an actual purpose of the film. He's good but something tells me the casting director needed a great actor merely to try to lend this film credibility. It's quite unfortunate he is not used properly.
As it is known, this film is directed by Brett Ratner. Now he can make movies that general audiences will like, but he can't make movies that will stand the test of time. Audiences are going to like this for the simplistic, annoying, and stereotypical characteristics of this film, overlooking that much of the comedy is nothing that is worth laughing much about. It is quite a disappointing film
Final Grade: C+
3 comments:
Rush Hour Three was an awsome movie so stop hating. i also loved 1 and 2 and Chris was hilarious
Stop hating? Rush Hour 3 was not a good movie when compared to the other 2. It could've been great, but alas the humor relied too much yelping from Chris that bordered on a person suffering from Tourette's. Perhaps they will get it right with the 4th movie.
Great work.
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