The third installment is so cartoonishly stupid it makes the original look like a classic.
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08/14/07
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Rush Hour 3 (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:6
Rotten:22
Average Rating:4.4/10
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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 10, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $140,080,850
Synopsis: In director Brett Ratner's RUSH HOUR 3, African-American cop James Carter (Chris Tucker) once again reunites with Chinese inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) to both taunt and battle bad guys. Whereas the... [More]
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh
Director: Brett Ratner
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Reviews for Rush Hour 3
Top CriticThis movie makes a fine replacement for the previous two installments.
08/11/07
Top CriticThere's no doubt that Rush Hour 3 is anything but a mess. And yet there were moments when I found myself laughing giddily at the inanity of it all, and other moments when the picture was so beautiful to look at that I almost forgot its faults.
08/10/07
Top CriticThe final, and anti-climactic, 'threequel' of the summer has nothing new to say. A staleness pervades the film, despite all efforts to inject freshness and excitement into a tired story.
08/10/07
Top CriticRush Hour 3 is a blockbuster sequel filmed with the enthusiasm of jury duty and as barren of novelty as a burned-out souvenir stand.
08/10/07
Top CriticAlthough the formula seems a tad tired, it's still more entertaining than most sequels to a sequel.
08/10/07
Top CriticThis may be the best-looking film in the series; certainly, the Paris setting, with a climactic battle among the girders of the Eiffel Tower, keeps the visuals interesting. Better you buy a postcard.
08/10/07
Top CriticAfter Max von Sydow played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal, he was condemned to hell: a prominent role in Rush Hour 3.
08/10/07
Top CriticAlthough it has been six years since Rush Hour 2 came out, almost everything about Rush Hour 3 has a familiar inevitability about it.
08/10/07
Top CriticIt seems fairly likely that this is a case of returning once more with a bucket before the well runs dry.
08/10/07
Top CriticThe junky, clunky, grimly unfunny Rush Hour 3 isn't the worst movie of the summer. But it's an enervating bummer nonetheless.
08/09/07
Top CriticDirector Brett Ratner, screenwriter Jeff Nathanson and stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker appear to be trying to save the planet one gag at a time by recycling as much material as humanly possible.
08/09/07
Top CriticJackie Chan and Chris Tucker have been through a lot together... Are they tired? Perhaps not, but their antics and action sequences certainly are.
08/09/07
Top CriticThe division of labor is the same as in the first two films: Jackie kicks ass; Chris kicks sass. Ratner's challenge is giving the stars enough comedy byplay to keep audiences awake between the big action scenes, and RH 3 gets it done.
08/09/07
Top CriticBy no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures.
08/09/07
Top CriticChan shows he still has the chops during a showdown at the Eiffel Tower, but you'd think the movie's reported budget of $140 million might have bought Tucker at least one side-splitting gag.
08/09/07
Top CriticRush Hour 3 is everything a sequel shouldn't be: wasteful, unwanted, crass, inept and just plain awful to watch.
08/09/07
Top CriticBrett Ratner, the great refusnik of all the A-list, big-budget action film directors, sticks steadfastly to formula.
08/09/07
Top CriticThe scripting is terrible, the direction lacks energy and the fights -- this movie's entire reason for being -- are filmed in Jumblevison.
08/09/07
Top CriticInstead of introducing a new protagonist (e.g. Chris Rock in Lethal Weapon IV) or a fresh plot to reconnect with the audience, Rush Hour 3 bludgeons us with the same old shtick.
08/09/07
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