RUSH HOUR (1998) ** Similar, but infinitely inferior, to Shanghai Surprise. Jackie Chan is, typecast me out, a Chinaman protector of the ruling class (cop here, Samurai there). He has to go to the wild west (contemporary L.A. here) to save the princess (diplomat's daughter here). Unfortunately that's about where it all ends. Chris Tucker is supposed to be a lethal mixture of bad, funny, and irritating, but the latter characteristic is the only one he manages with any regularity at all, and one that he maintains uninterrupted without apparent difficulty. He leaves you wondering how good this film could have been with Chris Rock; with a young, or old, Richard Pryor. Chan beats up everyone with everything imaginable, and in an elegant oriental manner suggesting nothing so much as those gentle plays with the women in white face paint. Enough culture!
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