Rush Hour 2 (2001)

If you're looking for an action-comedy packed movie, well this is one of those movies. Jackie Chan and Chris tucker making one of the greatest and funniest combinations with seemingly brotherly relationship has made the movie a world wide success being the sequel to the movie Rush Hour. Brett Ratner beautifully makes up the symmetry for both the movies and presents before us, an excellent piece of movie, whose every ounce is filled with hilariousness. Lee and Carter are off on vacation to Hong Kong where the former suddenly gets to know that the antagonist, Ricky Tan is involved in a suspicious bombing of American Embassy. But knowing Carter, who always wanted a mu shu even if there's a catastrophe, tricks him into a bar disguising the issue to him as a big party and that's where starts the "revolution". Lee and Carter are on to catch Ricky Tan and are always on the loosing side, sometimes getting stripped butt naked but also sometimes getting to enjoy the pleasures of Chinese massage. The Kinetic energy of Lee and the dynamic mouth of Carter, which can also thank Benjamin , always gets you off the chair , both for laughing and for a wide opened mouth to the stunts of Jackie. All the way through the movie you can see why one can't separate the comedy in Jackie's heroics and Tucker's blasters while they seriously chase Tan. This movie is a complete ripper of stomachs and an ever green classic without an 'F'.

*Spoiler/plot- Rush Hour 2, 2001. Reunited n Hong Kong, this cop duo expects a vacation but get an international case. They're tracking a slippery female assassin and mysterious Triade mobster importing counterfeit American $100 bills to Las Vegas.*Special Stars- Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Alan King, Roselyn Sanchez, Harris Yulin.*Theme- Teamwork and good communication among friends solve problems.*Trivia/location/goofs- Film sequel, watch for extremely funny 'behind the scenes' outtakes shown during the lengthy end credits. DVD is full of great additional material.*Emotion- This is one of the FEW sequel that breaks the customary "sequels are always bad" curse. An enjoyable to watch, fun, action packed well balanced film.*Based On- Rush Hour 1 exposition and plot.

If you loved the first Rush Hour, you will love this one as well. This is an action pack movie with Jackie Chan's amazing stunt work and Chris Tucker's amazing comedic presence. This is a very very funny and entertaining movie. Movie also stars Roselyn Sanchez, and the gorgeous Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon fame as a crazed assassin. Zhang is great in this movie and some of the action scenes are amazing as well as funny. The story doesn't matter because basically it's this - Carter talks funny to somebody while Lee is distracted, it then all kicks off and Lee does lots of fancy moves, it then moves to a different location and the pattern repeats again. Essentially that's it - but it doesn't matter, it worked the first time and it works again here. The story is better than the first film's, although the twists don't work as well as they think they do.The main improvement since the first movie is that there's more fighting action. In RH Jackie Chan's fighting was toned down to make room for Tucker's comedy. In RH2 Chan is allowed to have much more action and the addition of Zhang Ziyi ups the ante all the more. Tucker still gets to do his big-mouthed comedy and have plenty of banter between him and Chan, be sexual with girls and fight. It's not breaking new ground but it's quite fun. Chan and Tucker are very good, mainly because they're having fun and comfortable with each other. Lone adds class and menace as Ricky Tan and Sanchez adds spice as the beautiful Isabella. The best addition is Zhang Ziyi - she doesn't have any character but she can certainly move! The cast also has very funny cameos from Don Cheadle and Jeremy Piven - adding laughs and class. The only problem with the film is that it is so very formulaic and is just a simple crowd pleaser. Some of the banter is a few steps off racism and much of Tucker's ogling is borderline sexism. However, it's all so very polished that you don't notice.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

Rush Hour 2 is nowhere as good as Rush Hour 1 but you have to give them A for effort, as they did try to make you love it. Chan and Tucker have a way of keeping you glued as their combination is mouth watering, but after I was done watching this film… I enjoyed seeing the errors than I did seeing the film itself.Is not that Rush Hour 2 didn't have it's funny parts, because it did, it is just that from the set go you will know that the makers are trying so hard to make something out of nothing. At the end they achieved it all, they got us to go see the movie, got us to remember the movie for some also near death experience that makes you wonder just like in Rush Hour 1 and they somehow manage to create a story regardless of how weak it looked or sounded. Brett Ratner was called back to direct this film that was done 3 years after the first, so the choice is yours, do you think he did a good job? The movie plot stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Detective Carter. Now this time our duo starts their journey in Hong Kong and then found themselves back on American soil and in Vegas where they are all rolled up together with the secret service to bring down a counterfeit scam involving the Triads.The production cost for the movie is much higher than that of Rush Hour 1 mostly due to the success of the previous film Chris Tucker demanded a 20 million salary to reprise his role, at the end the movie was worth his pay at the box office. Rush Hour 1 cost $33 million and made $244 million, while this movie cost $90 million and took home $347 million from the box office and made massive cash in the home video sale.After the huge success of this movie, the production studio called the duo back for another Rush Hour run, although it took them six years to get the crew back together again so the movie was released in 2007.As I said this movie is nowhere as good as its predecessor, a lot of work and casting went into this one, but the final result didn't show that it cost 3 times more than the first but I will still say it is a fine movie to see.www.lagsreviews.com