Rush Hour 3 update, with trailer [Archive]

doe-sun

05-12-2006, 01:28 PM

link (http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14376)
Rush Hour 3 to Start Filming this Fall
Source: New Line Cinema
May 4, 2006

New Line Cinema has officially greenlit Rush Hour 3 with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan signed on to star and Brett Ratner set to direct the latest installment of the popular franchise. New Line Production President Toby Emmerich announced today that the film will start production this fall for a planned 2007 release.

Tucker and Chan will reprise their respective roles as LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee in the film, which will feature the action comedy duo traveling to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads.

"We are thrilled to team up with Chris, Jackie and Brett again to bring another installment of this entertaining franchise to life," says Emmerich. "The first two 'Rush Hour' films have become pop culture classics, and we are confident that the third one will deliver the trademark mix of great action and big laughs that made the previous films so successful."

Rush Hour 3 will be directed by Ratner ("Rush Hour" franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand, Red Dragon) from a screenplay by Rush Hour 2 writer Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal). The film is being produced by Arthur Sarkissian, Roger Birnbaum (Memoirs of a Geisha), Jay Stern and Jonathan Glickman (The Pacifier).

Production is being overseen for New Line by Emmerich and production executives Mark Kaufman and Michael Disco.

The previous films in the "Rush Hour" franchise -- including 1998's Rush Hour and 2001's Rush Hour 2 -- have a combined box office gross of nearly $1 billion worldwide.

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Rush Hour 1 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in LA
Rush Hour 2 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in Hong Kong
Rush Hour 3 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in Europe.

Always shitting on Asian guys, eh Hollywood?

TB4000

05-12-2006, 02:10 PM

Yeah, they finally got it underway by paying tucker 25 million. You'd think going to Paris would entail them fighting Parisian villains, but go figure.

snailpoo

05-12-2006, 02:41 PM

Does this moving entail a scene where Jackie jumps the shark tank with a motorcycle?

tommyhtown

05-12-2006, 03:14 PM

I thought Rush Hour 1 villians were not Asians.

Napoleon Chynamite

05-12-2006, 03:20 PM

Rush Hour 4 will consist of Chan and Tucker traversing into the thick of the Kalahari Desert amid the southern regions of Africa. And of course, the triads will be behind it once again, exploiting those poor bushmen.

kimpossible

05-12-2006, 03:25 PM

Does he get an Asian chick?

Napoleon Chynamite

05-12-2006, 03:31 PM

^ I imagine the population of hot asian chicks in the Kalahari desert are quite low...but that is merely an assumption on my part.

mr. x

05-12-2006, 03:47 PM

wait is there like a big asian mafia thing in Paris? cuz last I checked the French were hating on all the olive immigrants from North Africa/Arab countries. But oh no, it would be racist to fight them...

I'm willing to bet any sucka here a cool million that Jean Reno is gonna be in this

Irezumi Kiss

05-12-2006, 05:43 PM

Does he get an Asian chick?
Who, Tucker or Chan?

I thought they were supposed to come to New York on extended vacation and Chan was supposed to get with Roselyn Sanchez' character, who gave him a kiss at the end of RH2.

Maybe they could find some mystic amulet and ressurrect Zhang Ziyi's character from the dead.

Faithless

05-12-2006, 08:48 PM

Rush hours are slow, I thought.

Can't they come up with a better name like Early Morning Commute along Highway 80 between Davis and Vallejo. Now that would suggest frenetic!

Atealtha

05-12-2006, 08:49 PM

I expect no less from Hollywood.

yoMAMA

05-12-2006, 10:03 PM

is jackie chan finally gonna kiss a girl?

for christ sake....

Powerful T

05-12-2006, 10:21 PM

*spills Ramen on his suit*

TRIADS DID THIS!

s1eve

05-12-2006, 11:46 PM

is jackie chan finally gonna kiss a girl?

for christ sake....

I don't know about you but Jackie kissing a girl will just make me laugh. Where as Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Tony Leung or Daniel Dae Kim in a romantic scene would be more effective.

Faithless

05-13-2006, 12:03 AM

I don't know about you but Jackie kissing a girl will just make me laugh. Where as Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Tony Leung or Daniel Dae Kim in a romantic scene would be more effective.
Bottom line: Would you make a movie like this?

Or is it a sell-out to the indie film world?

s1eve

05-13-2006, 03:18 AM

Bottom line: Would you make a movie like this?

Or is it a sell-out to the indie film world?

Hell no, it's a sequel! I mean, would I want to follow in the footsteps of say... Justin Lin? :biggrin:

Or is it a sell-out to the indie film world?

A sell-out to the indie film world? I'm slightly confused.

Anyway I'm more curious to see who will be cast as the Triads.

Irezumi Kiss

05-13-2006, 07:13 AM

Since the T in "Triads" is captialized, does that mean that the villians will be THE "Triads?" To set them apart from all the other triads around the world who don't have enough moxie to be captialized?

proazn

05-13-2006, 06:40 PM

link (http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14376)

Rush Hour 1 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in LA
Rush Hour 2 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in Hong Kong
Rush Hour 3 = one positive AM clowned by a black guy for two hours, whilst they defeat dozens of Asian criminals in Europe.

Always shitting on Asian guys, eh Hollywood?

The reason why there are alot of asian bad guys is because Jackie Chan prefers to use his Hong Kong stunt men. He owns a group of stunt men who he works out with and practices with constantly. Chan is not comfortable using foreigners in his stunt scenes because these scenes requires alot of skill and chemistry. and it looks like this movie has to be done in a few months. There's no time to bring in bad white guys or the bad black guys to train them to shoot the fighting scenes.

returntosender

05-13-2006, 08:18 PM

is jackie chan finally gonna kiss a girl?

for christ sake....

It's not his fault. The girls keep cracking up when they see his gigantic head moving close.

Did you see the outtakes for The Medallion? Claire Forlani couldn't keep a straight face.

s1eve

05-13-2006, 11:07 PM

It's not his fault. The girls keep cracking up when they see his gigantic head moving close.

I think it was his nose... :tongue:

Napoleon Chynamite

05-13-2006, 11:22 PM

Ironically for all of Chan's reputation of having love-scene free movies, he is reported to have more female admirers worldwide than many other male actors who otherwise be seen as more of a ladies man based on looks, screen presence and the nature of their past roles, etc (e.g. Chow Yun Fat, Jet Li, even people like Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, to name a few Chinese stars but the above applies pretty much on a global level as well). When was the last time a girl committed suicide after she found out that Brad Pitt or Colin Farrell was taken.

AristoteleanMan

05-14-2006, 01:21 AM

^ I don't think Jackey Chan's bigger following of worldwide female admirers is necessarily the same type of admiration as Chow Yun Fat's and Jet Li's. Jackey Chan may be more popular but I don't think women are fawning over him like they would over the other two.

And for fear of getting into another huge argument, I know you're just playing devil's advocate.

AliBabaIncorporated

05-14-2006, 04:55 AM

When was the last time a girl committed suicide after she found out that Brad Pitt or Colin Farrell was taken.
Maybe it just proves they have the ability to attract fans with more emotional maturity than screaming preteen schoolgirls.

Irezumi Kiss

05-14-2006, 06:42 AM

There's no time to bring in bad white guys or the bad black guys to train them to shoot the fighting scenes.
I hear Jeff Speakman and Taimak are looking for work...

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/posters/posterimages/p/perfectweaponthe.jpg

http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/kungfu/lastdragon/LastDragonCover.jpg

Banana

05-14-2006, 11:33 AM

Sho'nuff

Napoleon Chynamite

05-14-2006, 01:31 PM

Maybe it just proves they have the ability to attract fans with more emotional maturity than screaming preteen schoolgirls.

Hey hey, screaming preteen girls count on the heartthrob meter when you're a star. And usually you'd think screaming preteens would be more attracted to an actor based on his looks alone being that they are not mature enough to value wasteful assets like personality or ambition or jaded enough yet to value a fat bank account, so if Jackie can reel them young'uns in despite not being as conventionally goodlooking as other actors then it shows all the more what a pimp he is xD

I hear Jeff Speakman and Taimak are looking for work...

The Last Dragon and Perfect Weapon....2 of the greatest...or worst (take your pick) American martial arts flicks of all time. NIGGA PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE

Filipino_Ako

05-19-2006, 11:32 PM

Whats so racist about this movie again???

lethal

01-29-2007, 11:27 AM

First Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SqqpWbNL8

TB4000

01-29-2007, 12:10 PM

They've been trying to get this thing off the ground for how long? Now they're taking on another triad, huh?

AngryABCGirl

01-29-2007, 04:28 PM

Rush hours are slow, I thought.

Can't they come up with a better name like Early Morning Commute along Highway 80 between Davis and Vallejo. Now that would suggest frenetic!

man that is seriously so fucking hilarious.

kasia

01-29-2007, 05:30 PM

he's had his womanizer days and cheated on his wife. i think he publicly apologized or something. source: my mom and her hong kong magazines.

mr. x

01-29-2007, 09:26 PM

he's had his womanizer days and cheated on his wife. i think he publicly apologized or something. source: my mom and her hong kong magazines.

I think he has an illegit child right? That was weird hearing Jackie Chan as a womanizer, course in the chinese territories I guess it makes sense.

nameless

01-29-2007, 10:49 PM

Yeah, I believe it was with Hsu Qi when she wasn't that famous.

Napoleon Chynamite

01-29-2007, 11:30 PM

I dunno why people are so surprised that Chan is a stud. I may not like any of his new films but he had girls swooning over him left and right all over Asia for whatever reasons back in the day, whether it be his fame or popularity or acting or whatever.

TB4000

05-03-2007, 07:55 AM

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/newline/rushhour3/

They're back. And bad.

yoMAMA

05-04-2007, 09:52 PM

let's organize a protest.

cauz you know, the blackman is making more $ than the yellowman.

younggiftedandblack

05-06-2007, 09:50 PM

let's organize a protest.

cauz you know, the blackman is making more $ than the yellowman.

Actually in the long run Jackie will make more. He got a % of the gross and Hong Kong distribution rights while Tucker just got a flat fee.

TB4000

05-07-2007, 08:22 AM

Say what you want about Tucker, but the dude was a genius in putting himself on a 6 year hiatus until they called him.

SunWuKong

05-07-2007, 09:42 AM

i know his movies are no great works of art and they don't exactly make any great social statements. but i grew up watching the man and like most HKers of my generation, idolised him when we were little kids. i really can't hate on him. i wish he would stop jumping around all the time though because one of these days he's going to break his back and then that'll be it.

mr. x

05-08-2007, 11:57 AM

All I'm saying is there'd better be Parkour in this, I know Jackie probably doesn't wanna get upstaged by some frogs but how can you NOT have parkour in this?

Pookie_gal

08-07-2007, 04:11 PM

Watched the movie y'day and really liked it. It was very funny - I couldn't stop laughing. Ok, it might be a bit stereotypical in places but Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan have this amazing chemistry. :cool:

proazn

08-08-2007, 02:56 PM

I hope Jackie Chan makes fun of Chris Tucker and all black people in this movie. that would make my day.

revenge!!

haplesshobo

08-09-2007, 01:29 AM

There's a scene in the movie where Chris Tucker angrily accuses a woman of being a tranny, and some people have called the director out for what they perceive to be a homophobic bit.

Now, what makes this story really interesting is that the director defends himself by saying that this scene is based on real life as the director got his first blow job from a guy but didn't initially know it was a guy. And, that this type of stuff happens to a lot of people and to his friends all the time...

Moong Joong

08-09-2007, 06:40 AM

I also grew up watching jackie's 80's and 90's movies. Love them.

I lost a little respect for him with the full on hollywood movies.

Then he made the "shanghainese women should marry foreigners to spread chinese culture" comment. arrrgghhh! WHY JACK WHY!?!?

When i saw him on the one year till the beijing olympics celebration holding a little girl in his arms...i was like "yeah are you going to pimp her off to some sex tourists???"

:mad: ich bin so bose!

mr. x

08-11-2007, 01:08 AM

so is there any parkour in it? if not, WASTED POTENTIAL

TB4000

08-11-2007, 07:16 AM

Well, it was pretty much more of the same. You didn't like the last two, you won't like this one. It comes back full circle as Consul Han and his daughter, now grown up are in danger again. Chan gets more insults in on Tucker this time around as they've become more like family almost with Chan as the big brother directing Tucker's goofy character. Cliche bad guys and what not, but for the most part, somewhat entertaining.

mr. x

08-11-2007, 12:09 PM

well I spose we should support RH4 if only because Tucker only gets paychecks every time there's a sequel

Napoleon Chynamite

08-14-2007, 12:05 PM

snow ninja

08-14-2007, 02:01 PM

i like jackie chan but he is one silly mofo and he's a bit old and doesn't look meant for tv.

where's the ripped and chiseled asian dudes that kick ass and get all the women in movies?

i think the movies can be counted on less than one hand.

VV o n g B a

08-14-2007, 02:23 PM

i thought this was godawful. the plot made absolutely no sense and felt like it was strung together just to put ppl onto different paris tourist attractions. the acting was terrible and didn't the ambassador's daughter use to speak w/o an accent or am i remembering wrong?

worst of all were the fight scenes and stunts. maybe this is unfair, but after seeing bourne ultimatum, all the fight scenes in rh3 look waaay too choreographed and have little emotional investment. it's sad that right now i'd rather watch matt in a fight scene than jackie. the intensity of his fight scenes from movies like dm2 just aren't there. not even remotely close.

Napoleon Chynamite

08-14-2007, 07:03 PM

didn't the ambassador's daughter use to speak w/o an accent or am i remembering wrong?

hahahahahaha

yea i forgot about that

the entire film seemed almost like a compilation of all the leftover scrap material that the screenwriters had decided to omit in the previous 2.

TB4000

08-14-2007, 07:22 PM

On the now grown daughter, I did think the timing on the joke where Tucker actually sees what she looks like, assuming she's still a little girl, was pretty good.

JesusIsmyFriend

08-15-2007, 03:59 AM

the ambassador's daughter use to speak w/o an accent or am i remembering wrong?
.

The child actor who played the original Soo Young was Julia Hsu. The Soo Young in Rush Hour 3 is played by Jingchu Zhang. I've read somewhere that Julia Hsu just quit acting all together.

proazn

08-15-2007, 06:07 AM

worst of all were the fight scenes and stunts. maybe this is unfair, but after seeing bourne ultimatum, all the fight scenes in rh3 look waaay too choreographed and have little emotional investment. it's sad that right now i'd rather watch matt in a fight scene than jackie. the intensity of his fight scenes from movies like dm2 just aren't there. not even remotely close.

The fight scenes in the first two Bourne movies sucked so much I had headaches while watching. Seriously. If you were an experienced movie watcher, you would notice how terrible the fight scenes in Bourne were. Whenever the director has to show fight scenes where the camera is constantly moving up/down/left/right violently and whenever you see closeups of elbows, you should know instantly the actors aren't fighter. The fight scenes are taped this way to hide the fighting deficiencies of the actors. basically, u got two chumps faking a fight with each other and you think it's real.

I'm dying to see Rush Hour 3 because it was sold out on the night I went to the theatre. However, I did wish they had cast a hot girl as a co-star like they did with Zhang Ziyi.

Shuriken

08-15-2007, 04:30 PM

Just saw RH3.

Boy, that Chris Tucker is one irritating guy.

I don’t recommend the movie, but I enjoyed it anyway.

kasia

08-16-2007, 08:09 AM

I just saw this a couple nights ago...by far the worst Rush Hour out of the 3 because it's obvious that they're running out of jokes and gags so there is plenty of rehashing and killing time involved for the film to run its total length. I don't think I ever experienced anything beyond a mild chuckle. Ok fine, maybe once or twice. As with many of Chan's Hollywood movies, his martial arts skills are no longer the centerpiece of his projects to me and it's basically just watching him jump around and use props creatively, which he seems to fail at also in RH3. Still, it was all entertaining in a very brainless routine type of way, in that watching Rush Hour 3 was more fun and amusing than say...work.

Also, I'm not sure why, and I don't think it's b/c my cinematic eye has developed or anything, but was the acting especially shitty in this one or what? Especially with Chan's dialogue and also Ambassador Han's daughter, cute as she may be. I literally grimaced as she painfully made her way through her lines with her broken English not so much unlike a Hooked-on-Phonics private lesson. Of course everyone here knows this but she should've just stuck with Mandarin the entire time, especially when talking to Chan.

As far as offensive jokes go, well it's nothing really better or worse than one would expect. It could've been even worse I suppose, I went in there with the lowest expectations and came away somewhat satiated and relieved.

i just watched it last night. this review pretty sums it all up. i heard it was going to be racist, so i felt tense as the movie began. fortunately, there were no outright offensive and unforgivable lines towards asians. some were annoying and dumb (e.g., the confusion between chinese and japanese cultures w/ Tucker constantly mentioning sushi) but nothing that wasn't compensated by similarly ridiculous comments about other groups.

han's daughter could not act. why wasn't someone like maggie q considered by the part? it could have made the movie that much more interesting.

the storyline itself was blah - some of the things could have appeared more clever if they were better flushed out. for example, the 13 leaders. no coverage on any of the leaders and how they carried about the business. and why would a black woman be chosen to carry the names? how did she travel from place to place? this would have been interesting to include. has anyone seen the hong kong movie "the election"? they could have made it more like that. the theme of the movie was to uncover the chinese triads and we saw basically NOTHING about the chinese triads except for the fact that they included a lot of black guys in suits with guns. and were run by some japanese orphan who was raised in china.

relationship between the orphan and jackie chan were not developed. not believable.

i feel like they had a lot to work with and that this could have been a better movie. just a bit of polishing up and more creativity. better directing. why they didn't spend a little more time on it is beyond me.

SunWuKong

08-16-2007, 08:46 AM

i just watched it last night. this review pretty sums it all up. i heard it was going to be racist, so i felt tense as the movie began. fortunately, there were no outright offensive and unforgivable lines towards asians. some were annoying and dumb (e.g., the confusion between chinese and japanese cultures w/ Tucker constantly mentioning sushi) but nothing that wasn't compensated by similarly ridiculous comments about other groups.

han's daughter could not act. why wasn't someone like maggie q considered by the part? it could have made the movie that much more interesting.

the storyline itself was blah - some of the things could have appeared more clever if they were better flushed out. for example, the 13 leaders. no coverage on any of the leaders and how they carried about the business. and why would a black woman be chosen to carry the names? how did she travel from place to place? this would have been interesting to include. has anyone seen the hong kong movie "the election"? they could have made it more like that. the theme of the movie was to uncover the chinese triads and we saw basically NOTHING about the chinese triads except for the fact that they included a lot of black guys in suits with guns. and were run by some japanese orphan who was raised in china.

relationship between the orphan and jackie chan were not developed. not believable.

i feel like they had a lot to work with and that this could have been a better movie. just a bit of polishing up and more creativity. better directing. why they didn't spend a little more time on it is beyond me.

you're talking like you think people go watch Jackie Chan movies for good story and good acting... i don't think this has ever been the case, even in Hong Kong. the guy sticks with one formula and he makes tons of money doing it. and for the most part they are entertaining despite always lacking in good story and good acting.

clichés plots and characters are well to be expected in Jackie Chan movies, i think. but what about the action in Rush Hour 3? it's pretty noticeable that Jackie has toned down quite a bit from even 10 years ago. even the fight scenes where he's in no danger of plunging to certain death wasn't as impressive.

did anybody notice the credits? on IMDB, Youki Kudoh's character is literally named "Dragon Lady". i thought that's pretty funny. and damn, her ears were big in that movie. i kept staring at them when the camera was on her because they stuck out of her face in such an awkward way.

TB4000

08-16-2007, 09:40 AM

kasia

08-16-2007, 03:36 PM

you're talking like you think people go watch Jackie Chan movies for good story and good acting... i don't think this has ever been the case, even in Hong Kong. the guy sticks with one formula and he makes tons of money doing it. and for the most part they are entertaining despite always lacking in good story and good acting.

clichés plots and characters are well to be expected in Jackie Chan movies, i think. but what about the action in Rush Hour 3? it's pretty noticeable that Jackie has toned down quite a bit from even 10 years ago. even the fight scenes where he's in no danger of plunging to certain death wasn't as impressive.

did anybody notice the credits? on IMDB, Youki Kudoh's character is literally named "Dragon Lady". i thought that's pretty funny. and damn, her ears were big in that movie. i kept staring at them when the camera was on her because they stuck out of her face in such an awkward way.

i've watched all of jackie chan's hk movies. and i even watched rumble in the bronx. i actually liked all of them and thought they had decent story lines. i esp liked his movie w/ anita mui (rose, i love you?)? i also liked rush hour 1 & 2.

so given my low standards, i think you'll think rush hour 3 was horrible.

p.s. han's daughter was singing mariah carey in the limo in rush hour 1 with no accent. how did she grow up to be a huge fob?

Napoleon Chynamite

08-16-2007, 06:45 PM

you're talking like you think people go watch Jackie Chan movies for good story and good acting... i don't think this has ever been the case, even in Hong Kong. The guy sticks with one formula and he makes tons of money doing it. and for the most part they are entertaining despite always lacking in good story and good acting.

clichés plots and characters are well to be expected in Jackie Chan movies, i think. but what about the action in Rush Hour 3? it's pretty noticeable that Jackie has toned down quite a bit from even 10 years ago. even the fight scenes where he's in no danger of plunging to certain death wasn't as impressive.

Yea, 'cept like you perhaps inferred, Chan fails to even deliver the goods when it comes to his creative stunts and choreography in this one, so basically Rush Hour 3 seemed at its very very best a semi-decent lowest-common denominator-type of comedy. I personally don't think life-threatening stunts are mandatory at all for action scenes to wow and entertain.

SunWuKong

08-17-2007, 12:01 AM

i've watched all of jackie chan's hk movies. and i even watched rumble in the bronx. i actually liked all of them and thought they had decent story lines. i esp liked his movie w/ anita mui (rose, i love you?)? i also liked rush hour 1 & 2.

so given my low standards, i think you'll think rush hour 3 was horrible.

p.s. han's daughter was singing mariah carey in the limo in rush hour 1 with no accent. how did she grow up to be a huge fob?

actually i already watched it on opening night and thought it was funny. i've said it before i'm sure, but i grew up watching Jackie Chan and i'm probably bias. he was the kungfu idol for kids like me who grew up after the Bruce Lee era. i basically just compare each Jackie Chan movie with his other movies. having said that, there have been a few of his movies that i didn't like as much. and admittedly the action in RH3 is much more toned down. i didn't find Chris Tucker annoying, although if i had to watch another movie with him in it right afterwards, i can see how i would have gotten annoyed.

who knows why Han's daughter got an accent? she's a diplomat's daughter after all, she could have gone back to China after RH1. but Jackie Chan movies are always full of things that don't make sense anyway. like where the hell were they dancing off to at the end? and how come the French taxi driver was speaking English to his French wife? etc etc.

SunWuKong

08-17-2007, 12:07 AM

Yea, 'cept like you perhaps inferred, Chan fails to even deliver the goods when it comes to his creative stunts and choreography in this one, so basically Rush Hour 3 seemed at its very very best a semi-decent lowest-common denominator-type of comedy. I personally don't think life-threatening stunts are mandatory at all for action scenes to wow and entertain.

well, the box office speaks for the movie itself. regardless of what you think of Jackie Chan's movies, like i said, he sticks to one formula and he makes lots of money. RH3 earned 50.2 million when it opened last weekend, beating out Bourne Ultimatum.

inthesky

08-17-2007, 02:09 AM

i just watched it, pretty good entertainment. personally, the racism wasn't there for me and it seemed pretty 2-way. however, it'd be a different tune if jackie wasn't there. there are definitely some plot irregularities and just seems like everything tied up too nicely- more humor, less action than the first two RH's. overall, i'd give it a recommendation.

proazn

08-17-2007, 01:47 PM

Most of the racist/stereotyping scenes were cut out of the final edit. Like the scene from Tucker: "I'm half chinese, from the waist up". - this scene wasn't in the movie but in online trailers.

RH3 earned $50 million, but that's minor compared to RH2. But of course, RH2 had a big female star - Zhang Ziyi. I think Tucker's demand for $20 million had the producers hiring no-name/no-talent actresses.

haplesshobo

08-18-2007, 12:05 AM

but what about the action in Rush Hour 3? it's pretty noticeable that Jackie has toned down quite a bit from even 10 years ago. even the fight scenes where he's in no danger of plunging to certain death wasn't as impressive.

But, how old is Jackie these days? At his age, its still pretty impressive that he's still doing these stunts and hasn't had to cede his action star status to younger guys. Jackie has been really shrewd with the way he managed his career- as he got older and less able to carry out those fights that made him famous, he's teamed up with american comedians so he no longer has to carry the movie himself and can save himself for a couple of fights in each movie.

kitkatbee

08-18-2007, 12:37 AM

I thought it was decent not as good as the other two though.

JesusIsmyFriend

08-18-2007, 07:47 PM

p.s. han's daughter was singing mariah carey in the limo in rush hour 1 with no accent. how did she grow up to be a huge fob?

Post #53, The child actor who played the original Soo Young was Julia Hsu. The Soo Young in Rush Hour 3 is played by Jingchu Zhang. I've read somewhere that Julia Hsu just quit acting all together.

Napoleon Chynamite

08-19-2007, 12:43 PM

well, the box office speaks for the movie itself. regardless of what you think of Jackie Chan's movies, like i said, he sticks to one formula and he makes lots of money. RH3 earned 50.2 million when it opened last weekend, beating out Bourne Ultimatum.

I was a die-hard fan of all his much older material, up until Drunken Master 2. It seemed to go all downhill from there although it took a while for everything to go to shit. It's not that I don't like Jackie Chan movies. It just seems like they all seemed to become more watered-down and corny as time went by, and RH3 encompasses the epitome of this. This was apparent after he started making movies in Hollywood, where I'm sure test audiences couldn't get enough of the funny little Chinaman jumping around and kicking people. Sure, another part of it might be b/c he's getting old and can't jump from building to building onto moving cars anymore, but like I said that was hardly a necessity in the recipe for entertainment even when you look back at his older HK stuff. He was just so much more kick-ass back then.