I am sorry folks, but after waiting over 6 years for the sequel to Rush Hour 2, I found this film to be disappointing. I was underwhelmed by The stale gags that were very entertaining in Rush Hour 1&2 but were just stale in this one. Jackie Chan was actually Cris Tucker's sidekick here. I would have liked a different plot that after such a time lag might have stood alone without the references to bits and pieces of the first 2 movies.
The film opens with Chris Tucker directing traffic in a street cop uniform only to pick up a couple of girls. Once again we see the Triad as a weak plot theme that brings us back to the Chinese ambassador and his now teen aged daughter with their lives in danger that the good Inspector Lee has to protect again.

The friendly banter is not as funny between Chan and Tucker and although Jackie Chan can still do his own stunts, but he is obviously not as young as he was when he was still doing his karate action stuff so the action sequences are more shoot em up and swinging from flying flags off the side of the Eifel Tower with a long lost "brother" from his past who we never heard about. The Max Von Snydow character as the villain is underutilized as the French ambassador. And there is no plot tie up of loose ends.

If you like the Rush Hour films, the film is watchable not as entertaining as the previous films. Paying full price for it would be frustrating. I think Rush Hour 4 would be superfluous.

This is a far cry from the first successful opus, and further the previous success of Eddy Murphy. The story is bland, ultra-conventional and impossible to believe. The sub-zero degree of culture is achieved by the laudatory comments of the French popular papers "Journal du Dimanche" and "Parisien" that qualify this disaster, the back of the jacket of the DVD, "hilarious" and very funny".

Furthermore, if this kind of American cinema had some finesse, he would have been able to make fun of French with intelligence. The criticism of France through the Atlanticist recurring themes of cowardice - our banned sacrifice in Iraq is still difficult to be understood the hawks bushists is vulgar and stupid.

No-sense screenplay, actors alongside the game, total lack of humour, caricature of the American subculture: 0

I love this movie. It is the best Rush Hour movie made. It is so funny. My husband and I could not wait for it to be released on DVD. The ending is suprising also. You could find it cheaper somewhere else, but worth it.

...tedious and not fun. I liked the first 2. This one was just seriously boring. It seems they lost their chemistry. The novelty wore off pretty much in the second one. Chris Tucker's character is just as annoying as before, although, he was bearable in the first two. This one was a whole new level of annoyance. Jackie Chan seemed tired. He really should quit making these movies. Don't get me wrong, I like Jackie Chan. I think he is extremely talented and really brings alot to action movies. But, when paired with someone who doesn't support him on screen, he loses that appeal.

My suggestion is to pass on this one and remember the Rush Hours for what they were. New, entertaining.

That's about all I have to say about this piece of garbage. Oh, one more thing: Chris Tucker is awful; he is so lucky that the Rush Hour movies exist, since he does nothing else.

Of the 3 Rush Hours, this was quite a dissapointment. 75 percent of it was extremly slow. Just didnt care about any of the characters after the first 15 minutes. Didnt even care about Lee or Carter after awhile. Rush Hour 1 and 2 were much more enjoyable. They had laughs and fun. This one didnt. the last 15 min were probably the best part. Especially because it was ending! Pass on this one everyone

Lots of action, fun and comedy. I love to watch this one over and over.

The action this time takes Lee (Chan) and Carter (Tucker) to France, where there's something about a list of the leaders of the Triads.... oh, you don't care about that--the plot's only there to give a reason for the jokes and the stunts.

Truly, the plot's a bit confusing. A diplomat who gets shot just as he was going to reveal the leaders of the Triads; a list of names tattooed on a woman's head; various factions after Lee and Carter and the woman and each other.

The action and jokes are pretty much what you'd expect if you've seen the first 2 movies. One of the bad guys, however, is Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada) Lee's "brother" (they'd grown up together), and that provides a nice bit of emotional conflict.

The other thing that distinguishes this movie from the first two is the Paris setting, with a cool action sequence on the Eiffel Tower, but mostly with the sneering Parisian cab driver George (Yvan Attal), who provides even more laughs and ends up making a surprising ally. The addition of his character to the Tucker/Chan duo kept it fresh, not unlike an old married couple with a new audience for their stories. I also really enjoyed his rather skewed view of America--it's not actually all that exaggerated.

It wasn't quite as good as the first two, but it was a fun way to spend an evening--we always enjoy Jackie Chan, even in his cheesiest movies (or maybe that's especially), and as my son's English teacher is wont to say, "Chris Tucker is a funny man."

3.5 stars. I'm afraid I was prepared not to like this movie. I heard so much of how much of a disappointment it was. And it is...but there is still a little charm left with this comedic duo. But please let the series end here. I can't even recap the plot because, but it truly doesn't make any sense. Everything is a matter of convenience. They always walk to the right place and there is always some minor character telling them where they need to go next. The climatic ending looking like a combination of the first two movies and well, the plot is just bad. Actually, the script is bad. But I did laugh quite a bit. Go figure.

I thought RH3 would be a fun romp, but not up to par as far as laughs and action with the first two RHs. But from the hilarious opening scene where Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) is wailing a Prince song while directing LA traffic, I was happily proven wrong. Paris has never looked more beautiful as the setting for the plot, which involves a secret list of Triad leaders and a beautiful cabaret dancer named Genevieve.

I must comment that I was stunned by the comment someone made about age catching up with Jackie Chan. He looks in top form to me, and I would like to see that reviewer do one-tenth of the acrobatics when he is JC's age.

Again, lots of laughs, lots of action, fantastic setting - highly recommended.

Rush Hour 1 & 2 and enjoy them. Needed 3 to round out the series. I found it not as good as 1 or 2, which is why I gave it 4 stars. I really like Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker together.

I find it a bit strange that people are giving this movie a poor rating because the script or plot was weak, well,, to be honest both Rush Hour 1 and 2, were not exactly stellar suspenseful plots or scripts!

Its a basic martial arts, buddy action comedy flick. that's it, and in that aspect, Rush Hour 3 delivers the goods. Granted, its not exactly oscar material, but then again it follows as a decent trilogy to the first 2. I would say the movie was a bit of a letdown more by the support actors apart from these two and the need to film it in Paris.

My favorite is the interrogation of the french triad member by these two in the prescence of the nun.

Chris Tucker - "Yes Sister, his stinkin hairy beads..!" Hilarious!

This review is from: Rush Hour 3 (Widescreen and Full-Screen)

I really enjoyed Rush Hour 1 and 2. I thought the chemistry between the soft-spoken, but very acrobatic Jackie Chan and the motor-mouth Chris Tucker was very good for the first two films. The first Rush Hour worked well because we saw the culture change Jackie Chan experienced going to the United States and the second Rush Hour was humorous because we saw Chris Tucker experience the culture change in China. For the third and final act (hopefully final), both characters go to France, Europe to experience a new culture for both of them. However since Rush Hour 3 (2007) came nearly six years after Rush Hour 2 (2001) and Rush Hour 1 (1998), it seems the chemistry between Chan and Tucker dried up. I heard rumors that in real life the actors didn't like each other off screen. Hard to believe if there was hatred between them when it looked fun while they were both singing and dancing to the "War" song in part one. If the rumors of their hatred for each other are true, than the efforts in part three can be justified.

Other than the fantastic stunt scene on the Eiffel Tower, Rush Hour 3 looked like a "rushed" effort done only to simply complete a trilogy that perhaps should have never been completed. It seems nowadays all movies that have a part two MUST have a part three so that a trilogy DVD set can be sold in the future. Other than humor that is practically non-existent in part three and no memorable antagonist or villain to counter Chan & Tucker not much worked well. I really wanted to enjoy part three despite the bad theatrical reviews it initially got since I bought the Rush Hour 3 DVD during the Christmas holidays (when the DVD was first available) in order for my wife and I to watch something new on a quite evening alone. I think the film would have worked better if it got a better protagonist or villain to counter Chan & Tucker. By the way I really liked Ziyi Zhang from part two in which she played a great villain (or femme fatale). Perhaps part three could have used another major actor to play the main villain such as Jason Statham (who could have fitted in some sort of Frenchman role) or Jet Li (not that Jackie Chan would have a fighting chance against Statham or Li). In the end I think the producers of Rush Hour 3 truly fumbled with this effort. I think the wait was too long, laughs were few, action ordinary and the effort rushed. 5 stars for part one & two, but only 2 stars for part three.

I have always been a great Jackie Chan fan, and I liked the first two installments, but the third is a bridge too far. Plotwise it seemes to be a revised version of the first, which really lets you know beforehand when what is going to happen. Not a great trait. The action is of roughly the same caliber as its predecessors, although somehow a bit lacking. The jokes are funny enough though, but can't carry the film on their own.

I think this film is a good example of the worse side of this hollywood obsession with sequels these days. Some times it just was not meant to be. 2,5 stars.

It's been so, so long since I've watched the other two movies.

To be honest, i remember nothing of the first movie which many think was the best.

Of Part 2 I remember the little asian girl singing Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" in the car. She was JAMMIN'! haha...
And the ending had a casino fight with a few thugs and I remember one of them, probably Chris, fighting this chick who was very good at fighting.
They both were!
But like I said it's been a LONG time so other parts are hazy or non-existent!!

But this movie...it starts off with Tucker directing traffic (he's a police officer this time) and he's singing "Do Me" by an old-school singer, that I can't remember.

It's not Stephanie Mills but it's one who came out around her time, I would think!

The fight scenes were OK, the comedy was OK and the rest had a been there done that feel.

It was underwhelming for sure and I didn't quite get through the whole movie.

I got really tired and I turned it off because it was leaving a lot to be desired.

Shoot me down for not watching the whole thing but that's just how it went down.

Before I leave you though, I must say that this movie was actually pretty racist also. Not towards blacks, but from blacks in a sense. Whoever wrote the script, gave Chris a few lines of "funny" Asian jokes such as the china man and other racist, predictable fodder that was to an extent funny, but not funny enough to be worth saying.
He also has a line where he says to his partner in crime that he knows all he does eat is rice and such.

2.7 stars.

End note: Give me a bad rating if you want but all we have to do is look at the overall score. It reflects my opinion rather well. Don't get me wrong though. It wasn't a total bummer. There were funny parts. It's just that in between all that you were waiting for something...
And the racist lines were rather rampant.

People expect too much from movies really.Rush hour 3 was a ride,a fun ride.As good as the previous 2.It was funny,contained lots of hilarious action sequences.Plus i loved the exotic setting.Damn people,please!!! Oh the cabaret scene was golden!!PEACE!

This is an excellent movie and I woudld recommand it to anyone.As always Amazon were brillant in their delivery.
I have used Amazon before and am always happy with the service.

from all the negative things i had heard about this movie,i expected it
to be awful.thankfully,that wasn't the case.this movie is actually not
bad.i didn't find it as funny as either the first or second one,but
there were still some pretty funny moments.Jackie Chan gets to loosen
up and show a bit of his silly side.Chris Tucker is funny,as usual.
again there's lots of action of course.the fights are pretty good.Chris
Tucker displays some good martial arts moves in this one.and Jackie
Chan has his usual great movies,although he seems a bit restrained in
this one.there is one mild scene of female nudity,but very brief and
nothing tasteless.i didn't quite like it as much as the previous two
movies,but i still enjoyed it.for me,Rush Hour 3 is a 3.5/5

Worth watching entertaining. Language too rough at times/overdone. Dont let the kids hear it too much swaering that looses its effect.

I own all three Rush Hour films and I have to say that on this one, it is definitely 3rd in the order! That being said, it isn't bad for a third. Certainly better than, say Spider-Man 3! At least this one the story line is consistent and doesn't have multiple angles going on.

I won't give anything away but I will say the first 30 minutes (give or take) have the funniest stuff in the film! After that it slows down with a few funny moments but doesn't really pick up on the action until the Eiffel Tower scene.

Overall, not a bad movie but I wouldn't pay $19.95 for it. I'd get it either used or at a reduced price. As for how it does against the first two, it is definitely three! Still an entertaining romp if you don't have anything for about 2 hours.

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rush hour 3 made me crack a smile, and at times even laugh out loud like i haven't in a while. comedy is a trip when done right, and in this case it was okay. somethings a little overdone, and others heard to many times, but it did have some freshness that made it a nice one. jackie chan and chris tucker, brilliant duo. i think they're pretty bad azz, you know. they just don't seem to get old for me. chan does the fighting, and tucker does the talking, great pair. these guys are once again brought together to solve a crime, kick some behind, and at times make a fool of themselves. and it works. they head off to paris in search of a bad guy, and they happen to come across the crazy triads, and bump into the french police, who seem to get a little finger happy. again, they're on a mission, risking there tails all the while, and uncovering piece by piece who's behind this whole mess. proving once again, that this mighty twosome still has the power to make me laugh, and trip me out. they can keep them coming. the acting was tight, the fighting was pretty smooth, and overall it went down well.

I like comedy. I enjoyed the first Rush Hour, and also the second. However, I was completely "let down" by the third. Chris Tucker has begun to totally emote (over act) and has lost his ability to be funny. Tucker's attempts in this 3rd venture tend to be completely aimed at crass sex inuendo. Jackie Chan seems weary of Tucker's attention grabbing and for all his fighting skills, hardly ever win's his fights. At this rate, if there is a Rush Hour 4, it should probably go direct to TV, skipping the theatres.

The Duo is back and at it again in France. This movie is a must ser

This film is nowhere near as entertaining as the first two in the series.

The weakest link in the first two films was always Chris Tucker, who is just embarrassing. It seems like he is trying to be a low-budget Eddie Murphy, and fails.

Fortunately in Rush Hour 3 he is older and a bit less hyper. Age perhaps is also showing in Jackie Chan, who is always fun to watch, but his stunts are less impressive this time around.

The problem here is either in the writing or the directing. The film just seems to be a series of (not very funny) comedy sketches strung together, with the actors just doing through the motions. Max von Sydow delivers his usual quality, but the resolution of his character is just a repeat from the first film and not a surprise.

The most original element seems to be the fighting on the Eiffel Tower.

The absolute high point is the collection of bloopers at the end.

This buddy cop duo of Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan is among the best ever made. I really enjoyed Rush Hour in particular, and Rush Hour 2 was good fun as well. However, this time around, it seems as if the plot of the movie is completely pointless.
Whereas in the first two films the story provided good fodder for letting these two provide hilarious comedy and cool action stunts, now they're left to basically fend for themselves because even the plot itself isn't taken seriously. The return of Soo-Yun (who grew up really quickly in just a few years, from being a little girl to being a teacher!) helps a little, but not enough. This time, the comedic formula doesn't stick very often and the action scenes are also disappointing.
It's just too silly for its own good, that's my issue with it. Even if the film completely recycled stuff that worked in the first two films, I would have been cool with that. But this time, even the execution is off, to the point where the film isn't even that interesting. For curious Rush Hour fans who haven't seen it yet, you may still want to rent it at the local video rental place if you have nothing better to do on a Monday night, but don't cancel dinner reservations to see it.

The Rush Hour series has managed something incredible! Take a once extremely funny comedic actor and the most insane dare devil martial arts actors in the history of cinema and place them in the most watered down boring unexciting snore inducing generic product and you have something that when people get angry and defend it for you mocking it, you are in utter jaw dropping migraine fury that such lame tastes exist. I can't even understand how the mall mega puke-O-plex crowd, however their damaged misguided minds work, would even enjoy this or any other Rush Hour movie. They're so boring, the comedy doesn't register, the action is nothing special, just well, there's far better ways to waste your time. Its a movie, it takes up time and space, but far too bland to be bothered with. I only write this review cause I am looking up better Jackie Chan movies on Amazon and I cannot understand in anyway why Rush Hour had two sequels or any fans. If you absolutely have no idea what makes a good Jackie Chan movie then I will lend you one clue: none of them are made in Hollywood!

I like the Rush Hour 3 platinum Series because it had a lot of outakes and behind the scenes that you did not see on the regular dvd.It was worth the money i really love Rush Hour 3..Jackie Chan is the Best

More of the same, just a whole lot better. If you're looking for the meaning of life go elsewhere, however if you want to be pleasantly entertained and perhaps laugh out loud from time to time this is the movie for you. In my opinion this is the best of the 3. Excellent writing and even better acting.

This is the best comedy movie I have ever seen ! It was amazing! There was never a moment when I was not cracking up laughing! It was hilarious, and Chris Tucker is the funniest dude ever! GET THIS MOVIE!! It is amazing!! I hope that there is a Rush Hour 4!

First, I agree with the critics who say there's an element of nastiness in this film. Racism, for example. I'm kinda surprised Chris Tucker let himself be cast this way. He starts out as a traffic cop instead of a detective, against Chan's now being an ambassador's bodyguard. Throughout most of the film, it seems he's the one who makes most of the blunders, and Chan is the one who does most of the bailing out and serious work.

Second, I think the film crosses the line into indecency. It should be R-rated, not PG-13.

This may as well be the last Rush Hour film. I enjoyed 1 and 2, but after seeing this, I'll probably not buy any more, unless I have reason to think there's been a big improvement.

Fans of the Rush Hour series may (will likely) enjoy this one, but for the most part this is just more of the same action and plot that was in the first two Rush Hour movies.

All too predictable, all too easy to figure out who the good guys are (and who they aren't) long before the movie even really gets going, like the earlier Rush Hour movies the fun for this movie is in watching Jackie Chan's excellent action sequences and in snickering a bit at Chris Tucker's attempts to copy those or toss in a funny line here and there.

I have to ask the studio if they really felt it was necessary to waste a second disc on this, and have to wonder about the idea that Blu-ray has so much room per disc and yet this movie was released on two discs and not one? I suppose it was just a choice by the studio, but I know that Blu-ray discs can easily hold much more content than just the movie, or just the movie and a commentary track and original theatrical trailer.

There are a good many extras available with this release, but those extras aren't on the disc with the movie. In some ways that could be considered a good thing as you might be tempted to watch the movie again instead of simply putting the extras disc in the player and not having to worry about it. It just seems a bit strange that the extras do come on another disc rather than having a single disc with movies, extras and everything on it.

Further confusion comes from the fact that the main feature itself only runs approximately 90 minutes. (In many ways that can be considered a good thing about this movie). At that relatively short length, one would expect there was plenty of left over space on the main disc to have included a lot of the content that was instead put on the second disc. I suppose the trade off would have been that a bunch of content that is on the second disc might have been left out entirely in the name of saving the plastic used for make the second disc. If that was truly the case, then in the words of Emily Latela, "never mind."

Is it worth the purchase? If you can find it discounted go for it. If not, try Unbox and watch it that way (and leave room in your cabinet for sets that are better than this middle of the road quality movie).

This movie is not to good but not to bad and is kinda funny. But if you like Jackie Chan and Cris Tucker you'll like this movie.

This movie wasn't all that. Jackie himself says he "didn't like" the movie. So there you go. Anyways here are some reasons it wasn't as good as rush hour 2...

1 not any great fight scenes... the best parts of it are verbal comedy when chris and jackie are questioning the asian who only speaks french
and when chris makes the cab driver sing the american anthem.
2. no story. there was no story . so the black girl has the names of the triad leaders tatooed on her bald head.. so what?? how many chinese people have the same damn name? it could be anyone.
3. jackie looks damn tired throughout the whole movie. I was reading his diaries on his website . he slept like at irregular hours throughout filming and that showed on screen
4 . chris doesn't look cool anymore. he's a fat face now. not the cool slim guy.
5. where's zhang zi yi when you need her. We are settled with a girl who looks nothing like soo yung and can't speak english who plays soo yung. And youki kudoh. Damn you spent 140 million and all you can get is her to play the female villain? sorry youki, but you're old. next time get some hot chick from asia.

I got it quickly from amazon and put it in my ps3 and laughed my way through the movie. There is so much action plus the jokes within it. You'll love this movie if you buy it. I had already seen the movie, but I still laughed the second time after seeing it! Everyone should definitely buy it.