Rush Hour (film)
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 Rush Hour (UK) DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Brett Ratner |
| Produced by | Roger Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman Arthur M. Sarkissian |
| Written by | Ross LaManna Jim Kouf |
| Starring | Jackie Chan Chris Tucker Ken Leung Tom Wilkinson Chris Penn Elizabeth Pena Tzi Ma Julia Hsu |
| Distributed by | -USA- New Line Cinema -Non-USA- Various Distributors |
| Release date(s) | September 18, 1998 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Language | English Cantonese |
| Budget | $35,000,000 US (est.) |
| Followed by | Rush Hour 2 |
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Rush Hour is a 1998 martial arts/buddy cop film starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The film was generally successful, becoming the 7th top grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $140 million dollars at the box-office.
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[edit] Plot
Chan plays Chief Inspector Lee, who has been sent to America from Hong Kong to investigate the kidnapping of Chinese consul Han's daughter, Soo Yung. However, the FBI (who are working on the case themselves) do not want an outsider like Lee to interfere with their investigation so they palm him off with LAPD detective, James Carter (played by Chris Tucker), a fast talking and comically arrogant police officer. The two men do not in any case get along. But when Lee and Carter find out that they're being used, they set out to try and solve the case themselves.
[edit] Production
Director Brett Ratner had commented that the movie is both a comedy and an action movie; "You have to walk very fine line in deciding the tone."[1]
[edit] Reception
Rush Hour opened at #1 at the North American box-office with a weekend gross of $33 million in September 1998. Rush Hour grossed over $244 million worldwide.[2]
While it gained positive reviews from critics, some people criticized the movie for being a rip-off of Lethal Weapon while some noted that Jackie Chan's performance was nowhere as lively as his previous roles (in Hong Kong movies, Chan enjoyed total creative freedom and was typically given limited creativity in Hollywood productions) and that his stunts were no longer death-defying or impressive. Many critics praised Chris Tucker for his comical acts in the film and how he and Chan formed an effective comic duo.[3]
A sequel Rush Hour 2, was made in 2001. A third movie, Rush Hour 3, is currently in production.[4] Tucker will receive $25 million for the third film and Chan will gain the distribution rights to the movie in Asia. The movie is set to be released on August 10, 2007.
[edit] Cast
- Jackie Chan as Chief Inspector Lee
- Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter
- Tom Wilkinson as Griffin
- Ken Leung as Sang
- Tzi Ma as Consul Han
- Julia Hsu as Soo Yung
- Elizabeth Peña as Detective Johnson
- Chris Penn as Clive Cod
- Michael Chow as the Dinner Guest
- Rex Linn as Special Agent Whitney
- Mark Rolston as Special Agent Warren Russ
- Wayne A. King as the Cigaweed Man
- Manny Perry as the Bartender
- Clifton Powell as Luke
- Kai Lennick & Larry Sullivan, Jr. as the Cops at Diner
- Yan Lin as the Consul's Secretary
- George Cheung as Soo Yung's Driver
- Roger Fan as Soo Yung's Bodyguard
- John Hawkes as Stucky
- Jean Lebell as the Taxi Driver
- Ai Man as the Foo Chow Hostess
- Lydia Look as the Foo Chow Waitress
- Mike Ashley as the Male Flight Attendant
- Aiza Tai as the Flight Attendant # 2
- Arlene Tai as the Flight Attendant # 3
- Latranto Fleming as Cigaweed's Son
- Adam Hennen as Sang's Body Guard
[edit] Trivia
- There is a famous scene where Chan and Tucker grab each other's hands and swing to kick their friends' opponents; it is the same move used by Michael Winslow and Brian Tochi in Police Academy 3: Back In Training. This move is also used in Rush Hour's sequel, Rush Hour 2.
- Chris Tucker instructs Jackie's character to look at the Grauman's Chinese Theater footprint of John Wayne, Inspector Lee responds by saying "Chon Wang?” In the movie Shanghai Noon, his character is named "Chon Wang", as homage to this scene.
- Near the beginning, when Chris Tucker causes the car explosion, he starts to dance to the Michael Jackson song "Another Part of Me" played in his Disneyland exclusive movie Captain EO.
- Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan became such good friends over the course of the movie that they planned to try out for Amazing Race Celebrity Edition, but the show did not fall through.[citation needed]
- The gun used by Chris Tucker's character is a modification of a standard Beretta 92 pistol.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Yeoman, Robert. OnFilm Interviews. Kodak.com. Retrieved on June 26, 2006.
- ^ Rush Hour. boxofficemojo.com (September 18th, 1998). Retrieved on June 25, 2006.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (September 18th, 1998). Rush Hour. rogerebert.com. Retrieved on June 25, 2006.
- ^ Chan Says Tucker Holding Up Rush Hour 3. The Associated Press (July 10th, 2005). Retrieved on June 25, 2006.
[edit] External links
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