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Rush Hour 3 (2007) -- After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
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Rush Hour 3 (2007) -- Interview: Chris Tucker "On working on Rush Hour Three"
Rush Hour 3 (2007) -- After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.

Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Brett Ratner
Writers (WGA):
Jeff Nathanson (written by)
Ross LaManna (characters)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 August 2007 (USA) more
Tagline:
This summer they're kicking it in Paris bigger time then ever more
Plot:
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
7 nominations more
User Comments:
A Nutshell Review: Rush Hour 3 more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Chris Tucker ... Carter

Jackie Chan ... Lee

Max von Sydow ... Reynard
Hiroyuki Sanada ... Kenji

Yvan Attal ... George
Youki Kudoh ... Dragon Lady
Noémie Lenoir ... Genevieve (as Noemie Lenoir)
Jingchu Zhang ... Soo Yung (as Zhang Jingchu)

Tzi Ma ... Ambassador Han

Dana Ivey ... Sister Agnes
Henry O ... Master Yu (as Henry O.)
Mia Tyler ... Marsha
Michael Chow ... Chinese Foreign Minister
David Niven Jr. ... British Foreign Minister

Oanh Nguyen ... Mi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A Hora do Rush 3 (Brazil) [pt]
Alexisfairoi detective 3 (Greece) [el]
Bitirim Ikili 3 (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Ful gas 3 (Slovenia) [sl]
Godziny szczytu 3 (Poland) [pl]
Heure limite 3 (Canada: French title) [fr]
Rush Hour 3 (Argentina) [es]
Rush hour: missione Parigi (Italy) [it]
Tipptund 3 (Estonia) [et]
Una pareja explosiva (Mexico) [es]
Una pareja explosiva 3 (Mexico) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sequences of action violence, sexual content, nudity and language.
Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA | Germany
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the scenes where Lee is speaking to Kenji, Jackie Chan actually speaks in Japanese. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the car chase scene the back window of the taxi breaks and shatters everywhere, but in the next shot it is not broken. more
Quotes:
[Carter has just defeated a group of Triads by himself]
Detective James Carter: Everybody was Kung fu fighting! That man was fast as lightning!
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Movie Connections:
References Rush Hour 2 (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Kung Fu Fighting more

FAQ

Is there going to be a Rush Hour 4?
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69 out of 116 people found the following comment useful:-
A Nutshell Review: Rush Hour 3, 9 August 2007
6/10
Author: DICK STEEL from Singapore

Should movies make money, then the Hollywood rule of thumb is to make another, and another, until the franchise runs out of steam. The original Rush Hour was a Jackie Chan vehicle of sorts to break into Hollywood, and it made a lot of money with the mis-pairing opposite Chris Tucker in a buddy cop movie formula filled with action and comedy. Rush Hour 2 was made 3 years later and made even more money, but it took 6 years for the second sequel to be made, and 9 years for the entire trilogy to be done (pray tell, will there be another sequel?)

Is the franchise tired? Probably, yet probably not. Face it, it's Jackie Chan, and most of his films (with the exception of missteps such as Around the World in 80 Days) make Hollywood studios smile. You can rely on him to deliver the goods in any action comedy, but age unfortunately has caught up with him, not to mention as well the safer-than-safe minimal risks that studios in the West tend to take with its stars. The action sequences in Rush Hour 3 look a bit tired, tame, and very uninspiring, and what Jackie Chan can probably still do, has been whittled down to sequences that are just a pale shadow of what could have been.

Which leaves us with the comedy, thankfully still having its moments especially for those punchlines which deliver. Tucker again gets most of the snarky lines, and a target for those politically incorrect jokes, while dishing some of his own. If there's any hint of rudimentary character development after these years, is that his James Carter, besides having been relegated to traffic duties, managed to "half-chinese" himself, and no longer is that helpless cop who without his gun, can't kick a ball for nuts.

The plot is no rocket science, and in fact, the previous two movies just had something which could coast along from scene to scene, providing a platform either to get our heroes Lee (Chan) and his brother-from-another-mother James (Tucker) into fisticuffs, or provide something for laughs. The first had a kidnapping of a Chinese Consul's daughter which the duo had to investigate in the US, while the second brought them to Hong Kong on the trail of a counterfeiting scam. The third pits the detectives against Triads, and brings us full circle with the return of that little girl in the original movie, who's now all grown up, played by Chinese starlet Zhang Jingchu.

Zhang Jingchu follows in the footsteps of fellow compatriot Zhang Ziyi who starred in the previous sequel. But unlike Ziyi, Jingchu's role is sans martial arts, despite her character being a kungfu instructor. It's unfortunately a purely flower vase role, though she looks more fleshed and healthier than her druggy role in Protégé. Yvan Attal's supporting role as a French cab driver is actually more of a scene stealer - listen out for those jibes at America, though it's a little of a cop out how that eventually plays out. Some of the more totally insane moments involve those deliberate lost in translation moments, which are the more enjoyable moments in this movie.

Rush Hour 3 is similar in structure with its predecessors, and it does seem a tad familiar at times in the way the story gets developed, with only a change in locale, now set in Paris. It's basically an attempt to reunite the two stars in order to make another dent in the box office, so though they're back, this movie can't be taken all too seriously. It plays out like a cartoon for adults, though the local distributor decided to edit portions of the French revue scene to obta in a rating that everyone can go to.

If anything, stay behind for the outtakes, which triumphs over the main offering, hands down.

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