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Rush Hour 2

Movie: A

Sound: A

Picture: A

Reviewed By: David

New Line Home Entertainment and Director Brett Ratner team up to bring you the very funny "Rush Hour 2".

Last time they nearly destroyed L.A., now they're about to break China! Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker reprise their roles as mismatched detectives in this smash-hit follow-up that's even "faster and funnier than the first!" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)

Reunited in Hong Kong, the two cops look forward to a much-needed vacation. But their plans go up in smoke when a bomb explodes in the American Embassy. Suddenly, they're tracking a group of slippery suspects, including a beautiful assassin (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Zhang Ziyi) and a mysterious mobster (John Lone, The Last Emperor). With their irresistible mix of head spinning action and gut-busting comedy, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan prove they're the team to beat in this can't miss movie that delivers the entertainment rush of the year!

The American embassy gets bombed. Carter and Lee once again go behind their superiors' backs to go undercover. It appears Chinese triad gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) a former working partner of Lee's father who was also a cop is involved in a counterfeiting ring, which a Secret Service agent Sterling (Harris Yulin) is trying to crack. His henchwoman, Hu Li (Zhang Ziyi) does all his dirty work for him and American billionaire Steven Reign (Alan King) who's also in on the deed. Reign's trophy girlfriend Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sanchez) turns out to be an undercover agent as well, although no one knows whose side she is really on. All this takes place in 90 minutes of laugh your tail off and verbal action.

In another early showdown set in a massage parlor the mismatched bud's take on an endless procession of baddies employed by Ricky Tan (John Lone) the head of the Fu Cang Long Triad. The sequence sets up the general rather obvious structure of "Rush Hour 2," whose dynamics are roughly equivalent to those of horror. The money shots in this case are a variety of witty, smartly choreographed kung fu sequences. In between those big set pieces including a tussle in a karaoke bar and an explosive throwdown inside a Las Vegas casino funded by a corrupt millionaire (Alan King).

Chan's Hong Kong films are hardly narrative driven but they are martial arts showpieces examples of which are a race up a building's bamboo facade and a massage parlor brawl are diluted here to accommodate Tucker. And Chan throws a few verbal punches as well, telling Tucker in his best malaprop style that, in Hong Kong, "I am Michael Jackson, and you are Toto."

All in all "Rush Hour 2" is a pretty good movie and if you need a good "pick me upper" watch this movie as you will laugh until it hurts.

Enjoy

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Edition Details:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
• Commentary by Brett Ratner
• Deleted Footage & Outtakes with Optional Director Commentary
• "Making Magic Out of Mire: A Look at Brett Ratner"
• Evolution of a Scene: Analysis of Selected Scenes
• Fashion of "Rush Hour 2"
• Visual Effects Deconstruction
• Jackie Chan's Hong Kong Introduction
• Culture Clash: West Meets East
• Language Barrier
• Attaining International Stardom
• Kung Fu Choreography
• Early Brett Ratner student film "Lady Luck"
• Fact Track: Trivia Subtitle with Direct Access to Additional Features
• DVD-ROM: Script-to-Screen
• Widescreen anamorphic format