Rush Hour 3 (Two-Disc Platinum Series)

Each Rush Hour built on the one before it and actually got better as they progressed. Basically there was more jokes and more action in each film. This time Lee (Jackie Chan) and Carter (Chris Tucker) are facing off against the Chinese Triads which takes them to Paris, France. I think it’s the funniest of the three.The emphasis on the jokes is shown throughout. For instance, Lee and Carter go to a Kung Fu school and Carter gets in a fight with the tallest man in the world, a very large Chinese fellow and then the master shows up and they do a play on the who’s on first routine from Abbott and Costello. Another time Lee and Carter capture a French Chinese gangster and they get into an insult match using a nun as a French-English translator.The movie also attempts to close the circle on the entire series. Thus at the start Lee is back with the Chinese Ambassador Solon Han (Tzi ma). Lee and Carter are also reunited with the ambassador’s daughter Soo Yung (Zhang Jingchu). They obviously knew this was going to be the last in the series so they brought back familiar faces for some nostalgia.Overall it is a lot of fun and the best of all the Rush Hour movies. The jokes are better and so is the action.C

Bought all parts of this movie. That tells you how much I enjoyed it.

gotta love the rush hour movies

The bloopers in the end always make me laugh

One of the greatest classics of all time this is a great movie something that I can watch over and over without getting bored great movie love it

i love the chris tucker and jackie chan comedic duo

Good laughs

You Gotta love Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan's Dynamic in this movie

I enjoyed the first two Rush Hour films, but I didn't enjoy this. A lot of the magic from the previous films had gone for me and this third film had lost most of the series' spark. Jackie Chan was also starting to look his age by now too. The stunts and action scenes also seemed "recycled" and there was more CGI than in the two previous films, which ruined it for me. I also didn't think that the film was quite as hilarious as the previous two. If you enjoyed the other films in the series, then by all means watch this as well. Just don't expect too much. I think the series and Jackie Chan have now had their day. Two stars from me.

Recently I decided to watch Rush Hour after a number of years of not seeing it and so I decided it was time to see all of the films in the trilogy...after what was a disappointing 2nd film in the series I went in to Rush Hour 3 with low expectations and took the fact there have been no more Rush Hour films since as a sign of how bad this film must have been but thankfully this is actually a really good offering.The film once again stars Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan and is full of excellent action and comedy throughout.This film is well worth checking out.

If you're looking at this, you're probably a big fan of the series - Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, cops just trying to solve crimes often get involved in comical shenanigans to help someone, and this 3rd instalment is no different; they have to find the leader of the Triads before a crime wave engulfs the world, Lee isn't that chuffed about Carter wanting to tag on, but when it comes to the crunch, they really need each other.This is your usual fare from Tucker and Chan, high octane action, stupid jokes and at times rather confrontational. I didn't really like Yvan Attal in this at all, he should stick to films like Le Serpent, where he can be taken seriously, instead of spouting off silly stereotypes in his taxi and acting like a fool. Noémie Lenoir was good in this and shows signs of being a good actress.This is a mediocre film that really didn't deserve such a high bitrate conversion to Blu-Ray, but at least it was done properly, the image is stunning and bright, the colours suit the palate, and the sound is deafening with it's 7.1 mix. This is truly a decent release!You do get commentaries on the movie though, which is handy, otherwise the rest of the extras are on disk 2, which contains the making of, deleted scenes and out-takes. This is just as good as the 2 disk DVD edition, which in a way is good, but really they could have done with the HD treatment.Pretty good release.

So, is there anything good to say about Rush Hour 3? Not much, but there's less bad to say about it than Rush Hour 2, which is something to be grateful for at least. For starters, Brett Ratner has remembered that Jackie Chan's in the movie too and gives him something to do this time instead of pretty much reducing him to reaction shots to Chris Tucker's endless witless improvisation. Unfortunately not much of it is done very well, with rushed action scenes and - unforgivably - some pretty obvious CGi and stunt doubling which makes it pretty clear that after three films he still doesn't get what the whole point of putting Jackie Chan in a movie is. Still, Chan has at least one good stunt with a flag before it develops into too much of a spinoff of one used in A View to a Kill (and on the same Eiffel Tower location).There's both less and more of the newly Supersized Tucker this time round: fewer of his unimaginatively improvised rants make the cut this time, but there's a lot more of him in an auditioning for Big Mamma's House 3 way. The comedy isn't exactly well executed, varying from a bad version of Yu's On First that suffers from lousy comic timing from both Tucker and the film's editor, Tucker pulling a gun on Yvan Attal's French cabbie because he - entirely reasonably - doesn't want to drive Tucker (not because he's black but because he's a loud and obnoxious American) to an anal exam by Roman Polanski's French police inspector with a Clouseau `tache. Just to show he's not playing favorites this time, Ratner ensures that the action scenes are just as typically lazily staged as if to prove that the surprisingly good ones in X-Men 3 were a one-off that probably owed more to a well storyboarded second unit than him finally learning how to shoot action. No surprises in what passes for a plot but is really just an excuse for the two stars to strut their stuff - when you've got an ex-Bond villain in the cast there aren't many shocks who the baddie turns out to be, though Chan turning out to have a Japanese brother in the triads must have caused a few raised eyebrows in Hong Kong. Yet while it's a long way from the surprisingly enjoyable first entry in the series, it's still watchable if you're in a particularly undemanding mood, and Chan has certainly done much worse for American studios.The film was a notoriously troubled production, with Ratner’s reportedly lax work ethic seeing him spending so much time on his mobile phone rather than shooting the film that studio chief Robert Shaye tried to have his signal jammed to get him to do some work, with no success, and taking the rare step of publicly criticising him in the press before the movie even opened. Wildly overbudget and overschedule the picture had to very expensively move from Paris (a bureaucratic nightmare to shoot in even if you are being professional about it) back to Los Angeles, ending up costing more than four times as much as the original, losing money on its theatrical release and killing the franchise. Absolutely none of which is covered in the multitude of special features, which go the usual puff piece route of everybody was wonderful and we all had a great time without a care in the world. If you don't mind that omission, there's a decent extras package on the 2-disc set include a lengthy self-congratulatory video diary from director Ratner, deleted and extended scenes, trailers, featurettes and an amusing Star Wars-themed special effects gag hidden as an Easter Egg.

This was a fun film but I felt some of the gags from the last film had been reworked into this one, for some reason Rush Hour 2 is the more memorable to me.