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Rush Hour 3

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Rush Hour 3 reviews
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6.5 User Score:

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Based on 32 critic reviews
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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

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)

What The Critics Said

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70

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.

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67

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.

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63

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.

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

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

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60

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.

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60

Village Voice Chuck Wilson

Chan is still the Gene Kelly of martial arts.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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

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50

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

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

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

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?

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

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

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

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

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

It's the same package with new wrapping.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

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

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

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.

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50

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

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

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38

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.

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38

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.

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38

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.

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38

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Dull, uninspired, and redundant.

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30

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.

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25

Chicago Tribune Scott Schueller

Rush Hour 3 is DOA.

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20

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

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

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10

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.

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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.

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