Rush Hour 3

Washington Post Desson Thomson

At the risk of eternal damnation on the Internet, I admit to laughing at -- even feeling momentarily touched by -- Rush Hour 3.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Ratner, who has been accurately dubbed a "fauxteur," does an OK job keeping the action swirling, especially in the finale atop the Eiffel Tower.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Rush Hour 3 reminds us that Tucker is an utterly strange entertainment phenomenon: He exists only in the world of these movies.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

By no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Crass, stupid and crudely made. It's also, in places, weirdly brilliant, a picture that plays to the largest possible audience with mechanical efficiency but also, here and there, betrays glimmers of self-deprecating cleverness, as if it were striving, perhaps even unconsciously, to transcend its own dumbness.

Village Voice Chuck Wilson

Chan is still the Gene Kelly of martial arts.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's a jerry-built kick-ass insult machine assembled entirely out of secondhand parts.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Though the movie's a shade shorter than the first two, it feels longer.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

In its third time out of the gate, Rush Hour 3, reuniting Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, hits the ground stalling.

Variety Robert Koehler

The latest picture to feature one of the movies’ oddest crime-fighting tandems nevertheless stays true to the franchise formula of East-West fusion action, broad cultural comedy and international intrigue, this time largely in Paris.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Once you realize it's only going to be so good, you settle back and enjoy that modest degree of goodness, which is at least not badness, and besides, if you're watching Rush Hour 3, you obviously didn't have anything better to do, anyway.

TV Guide Ken Fox

Strangest of all, Roman Polanski shows up to torture our heroes with a Paris phone book, then subject them to a full-cavity search. A gratuitous nod to "Chinatown"? Who knows? Who cares?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

The best scenes belong to Tucker and director Brett Ratner keys in to his timing, whether it's a Chinese twist on "Who's on First" or a seduction scene in which Tucker blurts out every impulse.

Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker have been through a lot together. To be exact, "Rush Hour" "Rush Hour 2" and now Rush Hour 3. Are they tired? Perhaps not, but their antics and action sequences certainly are.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

There's precious little that is fresh or new about the movie.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Feels as desperate and static as being trapped in a traffic jam.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

It's actually surprising that Chan is as engaging as he is. He's a canny performer in a canned-goods movie.

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

It works primarily because of the chemistry between Chan and Tucker, which is at its combustible best this time out.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

It's the same package with new wrapping.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

For a series devoted to giving audiences exactly what they want, it'd be pretty damn appropriate.

Time Richard Corliss

The first Rush Hour was a pretty good movie, the second one pretty lame. The threequel is somewhere in between: nothing special but with a high amiability quotient. The two stars know they click; it's no crime for them to extend and exploit that good vibe one more time.

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

Chan 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.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

This 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.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

Miami Herald Peter Debruge

If "Casino Royale" and "The Bourne Ultimatum" represent the new breed of 21st century action, then Rush Hour 3 is Stone Age stuff. The movie aims for irreverent, but delivers irrelevant instead. Let's hope the Rush Hour series stalls here.

New York Post Kyle Smith

"Rush Hour" was acceptable. It was to "Rush Hour 2" what McDonald's is to White Castle. "Rush Hour 2" is to Rush Hour 3 what White Castle is to cat food.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Chan still sounds silly talkin' jive, the action sequences are peppy if not exactly memorable, and the gags have been sitting out long enough to make penicillin.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Dull, uninspired, and redundant.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The junky, clunky, grimly unfunny follow-up to the marginally better “Rush Hour 2” and the significantly finer “Rush Hour,” isn’t the worst movie of the summer. But it’s an enervating bummer nonetheless, largely because it shows so little respect for its two likable stars and its audience.

Chicago Tribune Scott Schueller

Rush Hour 3 is DOA.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It just signals a series that's plainly out of gas.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

The biggest loser in all of this is Chan, whose legacy over here won’t be his 20+ years as a martial arts pioneer, but rather his playing straight man to the likes of Tucker and Owen Wilson.