Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Directed by Brett Ratner
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.
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This technique worked well in his other films, such as The Fifth Element , but in this one it gets annoying.
Of course, the brunt of the comedic burden is carried by Tucker, and while arguments that he is too loud even by his own standards do hold water (even if he doesn't come close to what is heretofore his most shrill and overdone work--his grating performance in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element ), his timing and ease with a wisecrack deliver the goods.
I�ve seen Chris Tucker add some life into a small role (The Fifth Element) and I�ve seen him carry an otherwise terrible movie (Money Talks), but this is honestly the first time he�s ever gotten on my nerves.
Judging by Tucker´s performance here and in "Rush Hour 2," maybe that goes for him, too.
If nothing else, viewers should be thankful that Ratner and screenwriters Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn have resisted the impulse to pack X-Men: The Last Stand with one overblown action sequence after another - which is especially impressive when you consider that the three are collectively responsible for some of the noisiest movies in recent years (ie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, XXX: State of the Union, Rush Hour 2, etc, etc).
Likewise, Rush Hour 2 can be considered a recycled version of Rush Hour, and it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Paraphrasing a funny line from the first Rush Hour movie, while in a Chinese night club Lee says to Carter, "Here, I Michael Jackson, you Toto."
On a vacation away from Los Angeles, the setting for the first "Rush Hour," Detective James Carter (Tucker) is yanked into working the Hong Kong beat with Inspector Lee (Chan).