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Rush Hour 3

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 32 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 78 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Comedy | Crime | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Ross LaManna (characters)
Jeff Nathanson
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 10, 2007
DVD: December 26, 2007
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): English / Cantonese
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sequences of action violence, sexual content, nudity and language
Starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Vinnie Jones, Hiroyuki Sanada, Noémie Lenoir, Yvan Attal, Sun Ming Ming, and Max von Sydow
LAPD Detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee respectively must travel to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads. (New Line Cinema)
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Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
By no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a jerry-built kick-ass insult machine assembled entirely out of secondhand parts.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Though the movie's a shade shorter than the first two, it feels longer.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
There's precious little that is fresh or new about the movie.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Feels as desperate and static as being trapped in a traffic jam.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
For a series devoted to giving audiences exactly what they want, it'd be pretty damn appropriate.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 78 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Aaron H gave it an8:
Could have been better, but what did you expect from a movie like this one? Jackie provides the stunts, Chris provides the laughs, and everybody else just shows up.
Reece M gave it a2:
the movie was flat out horrible. the humor was virtually a boring copy of the first two. throughout most of the movie Jackie Chan did not even appear to be acting, just going through the motions. i was bored the entire movie, never being sucked in. I regretted going to this movie, and i got in for free.
Michael R gave it a5:
It was a decent movie it wasn't nearly as funny or as entertaining as the first 2.It had some funny moments but its pretty forgettable. I think Jackie and Chris should call it quits on the Rush Hour series.Don't listen to the first 3 reviewers they are clearly high on something.
Gerry D gave it a3:
A cheap money grab. There's action, but the new characters and storylines are just skeletons. There's no real development anywhere. There's just enough to string from one action scene to the next (most of the time). Its like Pirates of the Carribean 3 - throw some garbage out as a sequel to 2 decent movies and enough people will see it to make money.
Logan K. gave it a10:
A highly enjoyable movie for anyone of any age! It's especially great for people who love to cook!
Monica A. gave it a10:
I've been waiting for this blu ray movie for a long time. I tried to rent it many times, but it was always unavailable at the video store (blockbuster only had 2 measly copies of this movie in blu ray in the whole city. I live in Charlotte NC, I also tried renting it from Netflix and blockbuster online to no avail. All I saw in my queue for three weeks was "very long wait"); so my husband decided to take the risk and buy it. The animation is awesome, looks better if you are watching it in true 1080p resolution. The storyline was great. This is a movie everyone should watch. The music is beautiful. I really enjoyed every minute of the movie.
Jessica G. gave it a10:
It seems so sad that some of the the fan written reviews written on this site are below the score of a 10. This movie is so appealing to the eye and has such a wonderful story that I do not understand the horrible reviews the fans have been giving it? Are you all just trying to be different because everyone seems to like the movie and you have some kind of problem with an animated pixar film? Suffice it to say, whomever have scored this movie in the yellow or red are officially morons.
