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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Rush Hour 2  Release Date - August 3, 2001 Nationwide  Distributor - New Line Cinema  Duration - 90 Mins  Type - Action/Adventure and Comedy.  Writer : Jeff Nathanson.  Producer : Arthur Sarkissian, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman and Jay Stern.  Director : Brett Ratner.  Starring : Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi and Roselyn Sanchez.  Synopsis In this sequel to the 1998 smash hit, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up once again as a pair of detectives fighting crime in Hong Kong--and later in the film, in Los Angeles. Combining high-action fighting sequences with quick comic icebreakers, director Brett Ratner delivers crowd-pleasing, fast-moving adventure.  Critic Reviews In the "Rush Hour" series, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are to law enforcement what Laurel and Hardy were to piano moving. Their police "investigations," conducted with only the loosest sort of plot and character logic, are but a pretext to get this bickering odd couple into comic situations featuring babes, pratfalls and action stunts. Audiences worldwide couldn't get enough of the Hong Kong action star and American actor-comedian in the 1998 blockbuster, "Rush Hour." That film grossed about $250 million around the globe. Anticipate a similar rush on the boxoffice for "Rush Hour 2" as the two resume their antics almost as if they were still making the same movie. Returning director Brett Ratner and a new writer, Jeff Nathanson, have upped the ante in mock racial antagonism between the two stars. You have to have highly likable actors to get away with lines such as Tucker's "you (Chinese) all look alike" during a fight or Chan's threat to Tucker to "bitch slap you back to Africa." Reversing the fish-out-of-water formula from the previous film, Tucker's LAPD Detective Carter is the tourist with a Chinese-English dictionary in Hong Kong, while Chan's Inspector Lee must show him the sights. These consist mostly of a massage parlor and luxury parties in a karaoke bar and on a yacht in Victoria Harbor. Tired tourist jokes get interspersed with a rogue police investigation into high-grade counterfeit dollar bills that takes the two cops from Hong Kong to Los Angeles and Vegas without either one having any true jurisdiction. Tucker again plays an impulsive, motor-mouth smart guy whose stream-of-consciousness dialogue contains jokes about women, Asians and his partner that border on the awful, but this, apparently, is their charm. (When an unbilled Don Cheadle speaking Chinese in a scene with Chan refers to Tucker as 7-Eleven because "his mouth never closes," you feel like high-fiving the person sitting next to you.) For virtually the first time in his career, Chan must play a low-key second fiddle to his hyper American co-star. And since he must partner with Tucker for fight scenes, his action choreography is toned down and lacks its usual comic flair. Compared to Jet Li's athletic fights in "Kiss of the Dragon," these stunts looks geriatric. The filmmaker has surrounded the duo with a stellar cast of veteran actors, most of whom have too little to do. John Lone is certainly a riveting presence as a wily triad leader playing all the angles. Why can't the film industry find more and better roles for this fine, underutilized actor? Ziyi Zhang, as a feisty henchwoman speaking in subtitled dialogue, plays a pallid spinoff of her "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" character. Alan King is thoroughly wasted as a billionaire hotel/casino owner, a role that makes no use of his comic abilities. Roselyn Sanchez provides eye candy as a possibly corrupt U.S. Secret Service agent, while Harris Yulin and Saul Rubinek barely register. Ratner's production team puts the locations to sleek though unimaginative use. And once again, the outtakes shown at the end credit roll are funnier and more involving than the stuff that made it into the final cut. A bit where Tucker's cell phone goes off in the middle of a scene with Chan is positively classic.   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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