Movie Review for Rush Hour 3

Summary: LAPD detective James Carter and Chinese Chief Inspector Lee travel to Paris to battle a wing of the Chinese organized crime family, the Triads.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Rebecca Murray of About.com (7/0)
            A completely forgettable popcorn flick...

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is the movie equivalent of a paint-by-numbers picture. No matter how much co...

By Tim Brayton of Antagony & Ecstasy (7/0)
            Proves that $25 million does not buy a good, or even bearable performance.

By Dan Jardine of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            Jackie Chan is stellar, Chris Tucker is lame and the film is, while proficiently produced, about ...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            Director Brett Ratner gives and he takes away. After destroying one trilogy last year with X-Men:...

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            There's a fine line between the frenetic fun to be found in returning to a familiar roller-coaste...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Michael Sragow of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
            The only thing that's up-to-date about Rush Hour 3 is the way that 53-year-old Jackie Chan shows ...

By Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/0)
            This cloying, fractured slop of uninspired swill is content to swim among summer's worst.

By Paul Arendt of BBC (7/0)
            Two hours of non-stop, ear-shattering, humourless shrieking. It's simply unbearable. You soon fin...

By Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com (7/0)
            Lots of pics of Chris and Jackie

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (7/0)
            ...we get refried scenes.

By Fred Topel of Can Magazine (7/0)
            I've long since accepted that these are not going to be the outrageous Jackie Chan vehicles I lov...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Neil Smith of Channel 4 Film (7/0)
            An embarrassingly flat-footed caper.

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
            ...enjoy that modest degree of goodness...

By Scott Schueller of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Instead of introducing a new protagonist (e.g. Chris Rock in Lethal Weapon IV) or a fresh plot to...

By Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            Ratner, who has been accurately dubbed a 'fauxteur', does an OK job keeping the action swirling, ...

By Steven D. Greydanus of Christianity Today (7/0)
            A half-hour of brilliance, preceded by an hour of dreck… a roughly comparable dreck-to-bril...

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            It's blatantly obvious in every frame of the film that Chan just can't cut it anymore.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            Is the magic gone, or can Tucker and Chan do it again?

By Erik Davis of Cinematical (7/0)
            As it is now, it's just a messy plate of leftovers fancied up to include the number three in the ...

By Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
            "Rush Hour 3" represents a final hour that has already passed.

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Jeff Nathanson and director Brett Ratner's biggest crime is their inability to combine comedy and...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            Humor is as obvious as the fact that Brett Ratner and screenwriter Jeff Nathanson watched every s...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (7/0)
            A total dud, as well as perhaps the worst sequel to appear in this up-and-down summer movie seaso...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Christopher Tookey of Daily Mail [UK] (7/0)
            The curse of the terrible 'threequels' continues with Rush Hour 3. Infecting this third movie is ...

By N.V. Cooper of E! Online (7/0)
            Sure, the jokes are crude and the plot is goofy, but Chan and Tucker have such a delightful rappo...

By David Foucher of EDGE Boston (7/0)
            Please, please don't make a fourth.

By Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 isn't going to encourage intelligence anytime soon, but if you have a soft spot for s...

By Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            To describe it as lazy hackwork would be an insult to the phrase "lazy hackwork."

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
            Scripter Jeff Nathanson, either out of laziness or feeling confined by the previous sagas, is all...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Nick De Semlyen of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            Like Lethal Weapon, this franchise has become lazier and less thrilling with each instalment. Hop...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            The eager yet lazy Rush Hour 3 often made me think of one of those mediocre Beverly Hills Cop seq...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            I'm not gonna lie to you: A lot of the movie is straight-up stupid.

By Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International (7/0)
            By far the worst film in the series, and marks career low points for just about everyone involved...

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            The biggest loser in all of this is Chan, whose legacy over here won't be his 20 years as a mart...

By Blake French of filmcritic.com (4/3)
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                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Chris Cabin of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            a manic hobgob of shoot-outs, double-crosses, and absurd one-note jokes

By Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
            A dated, stale, anti-American comedy. I hope they all make enough money never to make another Rus...

By Brett Buckalew of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            Roman Polanski has a confounding two-scene cameo as a customs official who gives Carter and Lee a...

By Richard Horgan of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            It all adds up to New Line willingly paying a very hefty price to get to their own back-end parad...

By Nigel Andrews of Financial Times (7/0)
            None but the mad will want to see Rush Hour 3.

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
            Can you understand the words that are comin' outta my mouth? This is racist, bullying garbage.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            The material here makes one wonder how low you have to set the bar before it becomes irrelevant.

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (7/0)
            If you've seen one Rush Hour, you've seen them all.

By Jeffrey Lyles of Gazette (MD) (7/0)
            proves once again to be the perfect marriage of intense action and side-splitting comedy. The boy...

By Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (7/0)
            Sends the endlessly bickering couple to Paris, where the great director Roman Polanski gives them...

By Peter Bradshaw of Guardian [UK] (7/0)
            They're back! That lovable duo, back to kick some ass and ogle some babes! Yes - it's Max Von Syd...

By Michael Rechtshaffen of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
            Hits the ground stalling.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
            Boy, has this franchise ever run out of gas.

By Todd Gilchrist of IGN Movies (7/0)
            A movie that not only depends on but demands you don't think in order to enjoy it.

By Anthony Quinn of Independent (7/0)
            Only the prospect of the outtakes and Chan's flubbed chopsocky stunts kept me going to the end, a...

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            Gives you lots more of the same shtick [but] repetition isn't necessarily bad, so long as the mov...

By Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 has the tone of an obligation grudgingly fulfilled after the cheques have been dutifu...

By Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (7/0)
            The most innovative scenes involve stunts, for which I'm sure Chan (who is always involved in act...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Chuck Wilson of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
            After all these years and all the complex fight scenes [Chan's] been in, the basics are plenty sa...

By Prairie Miller of Long Island Press (7/0)
            Yet another man versus motor vehicle smash 'em up.

By Kevin Crust of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            The action buddy-comedy franchise feels worn out...

By Kevin Crust of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Director Brett Ratner, screenwriter Jeff Nathanson and stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker appear ...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            Just more redundant, cookie-cutter formula.

By Pete Hammond of Maxim (7/0)
            It may have taken six years to get Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker back together but the chemistry i...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Matt Pais of Metromix.com (7/0)
            Tucker must not need to be funny since the loudmouth can take his $25 million payday and laugh al...

By Mack Bates of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            Whether it's a hit or not, Rush Hour 3 has just enough story to justify reaching the screen. But ...

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (7/0)
            It lacks the relative freshness of the first installment, but it's noticeably better than the sec...

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (7/0)
            ...the results are pretty much the same old familiar ruckus {but] the pedestrian storyline is som...

By Jeffrey K. Howard of Movie Guys with Jeff & Dave (7/0)
            Wild, funny and over-the-top action!

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            There is nothing new, nothing engaging, nothing to indicate that anyone is here for any reason ot...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Mark Ramsey of MovieJuice! (7/0)
             I never get tired of seeing Jackie accidentally bruise whatever is left of his genitals. 'I've g...

By Michael Dequina of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
            Like the cinematic equivalent of an old, reliable piece of furniture: although it predictably bri...

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (7/0)
            After Max von Sydow played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal, he was condemned to hell: a prom...

By Kyle Smith of New York Post (7/0)
            Welcome to the capital of stupid, where director Brett Ratner is the mayor.

By Manohla Dargis of New York Times (7/0)
            ...junky, clunky, grimly unfunny...

By Kam Williams of NewsBlaze (7/0)
            The best buddy-cop comedy since Rush Hour 2.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Kam Williams of NewsBlaze (7/0)
            Chris Tucker

By Alonso Duralde of Newsweek (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 isn’t quite painful enough to kill off a film legend, but I suspect it would give Jea...

By Philip French of Observer [UK] (7/0)
            Crude, knockabout stuff.

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            A soggy, sorry mess. In a summer that's seen a lot of terrible sequels with 3 in the title, [this...

By Nathan Rabin of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is an awfully spare title for such a big-money enterprise, but an appropriate subtitl...

By Cole Haddon of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
            Whatever magic between Chan and Tucker that [Ratner] was able to inadvertently capture the first ...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Fiore Mastracci of Outtakes With Fiore (7/0)
            It reflects not only the tension between the main characters, but the tension between the stars a...

By Carrie Rickey of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
            By no means is it a great movie, but it is great slapstick fun, one of summer's guilty pleasures.

By Bill Gibron of PopMatters (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is junk - witless, uncomplicated, consisting of disposable vignettes of vaudeville li...

By Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (7/0)
            It makes a case against "war" and in favor of buddies, across languages and expectations. That do...

By Aaron Hillis of Premiere Magazine (7/0)
            Chan still sounds silly talkin' jive, the action sequences are peppy if not exactly memorable, an...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            Some things aren't worth doing twice, let alone three times.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            The Rush Hour series comes to a close (hopefully) with this inert and entirely needless installme...

By Pam Grady of Reel.com (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is just sad, but what is sadder still is the certainty that there will be a Rush Hour...

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            Six years after the second installment...it would seem that there is little to warrant Rush Hour ...

By Betty Jo Tucker of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Most of the time while watching 'Rush Hour 3,' I couldn't help longing for another one of those h...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            Dull, uninspired, and redundant...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            It's hard to think of a sadder commentary about Hollywood's sequel fetish than the existence of R...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Carla Meyer of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
            A sense of fatigue accompanies Rush Hour 3. Timing is part of it, since it's the last of so many ...

By Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com (7/0)
            There's no doubt that Rush Hour 3 is anything but a mess. And yet there were moments when I found...

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
            Ratner tries to lampoon the violence in his movies, as if it gets him off the hook for serving up...

By Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News (7/0)
            Expect Chan and Tucker to bust it up with a steady array of bad guys, just as they've done before...

By David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is a traffic jam of clichés that doesn't achieve gridlock mainly because the stars, J...

By Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Although the formula seems a tad tired, it's still more entertaining than most sequels to a seque...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Audiences who come for the combination of action and humor won't be disappointed...

By Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers.com (7/0)
            You've got to hand it to Brett Ratner. He knows how to make a formula comedy breeze by in an effi...

By Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (7/0)
            I’m not a huge fan of the first two Rush Hour films, but this third sequel is just sad considerin...

By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            After a six-year hiatus, the Rush Hour brand has lost its drive.

By Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (7/0)
            For those who still enjoy the formula, Rush Hour 3 will suit fine; but here's a vote for letting ...

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            Pretty agonising, from the misogynist display of female flesh to a truly horrific musical number ...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            A sluggish repeat of its predecessors that remains mistakenly convinced that miscommunication bet...

By Angela Baldassarre of Sympatico.ca (7/0)
            The East-West fusion action has been exhausted, the broad comedy is tired and the dynamic between...

By Stuart McGurk of thelondonpaper (7/0)
            Look, it’s so dumb, I could easily give this one star – but I’m giving it two. It was entertainin...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            More of the same, only better.

By Derek Malcolm of This is London (7/0)
            The absurd plot has plenty of bang-bang but very little blood.

By Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine (7/0)
            The division of labor is the same as in the first two films: Jackie kicks ass; Chris kicks sass. ...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By David Fear of Time Out (7/0)
            Nothing can justify the stale gags or Chris Tucker’s shrieking minstrel show, and not even a Lalo...

By Cliff Doerksen of Time Out New York (7/0)
            The cinematic equivalent of a third-generation photocopy of a doodle barely worth a glance in the...

By James Christopher of Times [UK] (7/0)
            Amazingly enough Rush Hour 3 is as instantly forgettable as Rush Hour 1 and 2.

By Tony Medley of Tolucan Times (7/0)
            ...epitomizes the vapidity of the American film-making industry.

By Peter Howell of Toronto Star (7/0)
            Rush Hour 3 is a blockbuster sequel filmed with the enthusiasm of jury duty and as barren of nove...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (4/3)
            A lazy rehash of the first two installments.

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
            Three years later in the sequel, Tucker and Chan had found their groove, even if the movie did no...

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (7/0)
            ...this franchise has worn thin.

By Robert Koehler of Variety (7/0)
            Helmer Ratner knows the Rush Hour routine by heart, and production values, even with several new ...

By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            Disappointing threequel that lacks the spark of the previous two films and resorts to grafting dr...

By Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
            It could be 10 times better if Chris Tucker would shut up.

By Joanne Kaufman of Wall Street Journal (7/0)
            Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker have been through a lot together... Are they tired? Perhaps not, but...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            At the risk of eternal damnation on the Internet, I admit to laughing at -- even feeling momentar...

By Susan Granger of www.susangranger.com (7/0)
            This once-amusing East-West globe-trotting franchise has become formulaic but that probably won't...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Less Abbott & Costello than Cheney & Rove; how else to explain the 'humor' in a movie that gleefu...

By Christy Lemire of Associated Press (6/1) No reference
            Director Brett Ratner, who built a career on this buddy cop franchise, has cobbled together a laz...

By Wade Major of Boxoffice Magazine (6/1) No reference
            Nine years after the first Rush Hour and a whopping six years after Rush Hour 2, the buddy chemis...

By Andrea Gronvall of Chicago Reader (6/1) No reference
            Chan shows he still has the chops during a showdown at the Eiffel Tower, but you'd think the movi...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Scott Schueller of Chicago Tribune (3/4) No reference
            ...bludgeons us with the same old shtick.

By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (6/1) No reference
            The film features the same noxious mix of racial humor, sexual innuendo and violent slapstick as ...

By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (6/1) No reference
            This entry does everything that made the first two mildly diverting buddy cop comedies inexplicab...

By Peter Debruge of Miami Herald (6/1) No reference
            The movie aims for irreverent, but delivers irrelevant instead. Let's hope the Rush Hour series s...

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (6/1) No reference
            The scripting is terrible, the direction lacks energy and the fights -- this movie's entire reaso...

By Michael Elliott of Movie Parables (6/1) No reference
            Have you ever noticed that the more rush hour goes on, the slower things get?

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Manohla Dargis of New York Times (6/1) No reference
            The junky, clunky, grimly unfunny Rush Hour 3 isn't the worst movie of the summer. But it's an en...

By Lisa Rose of Newark Star-Ledger (6/1) No reference
            A pointless sequel in a franchise that's been underwhelming from the start.

By Gene Seymour of Newsday (6/1) No reference
            A whirring, soulless pop product for those who don't expect much more from a movie beyond cheap l...

By M.E. Russell of Oregonian (6/1) No reference
            Rush Hour 3 is an exercise in critic-proofing: If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort o...

By Mike Ward of Richmond.com (6/1) No reference
            Despite its derivative desperation and a ridiculous chain of serendipitous turns that are necessa...

By Brian Tallerico of UGO (6/1) No reference
            There's a bizarre lack of anything to care about beyond the dynamic duo at the center of the film...

                         Reviews of Rush Hour 3
By Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (6/1) Not Reachable
            The howls of audience members around me proved there's still an audience for the third installmen...

By Mary F. Pols of Contra Costa Times (5/2) Not Reachable
            If Chan has toned down the stunts, Tucker has pumped up the volume on his comic duties to the poi...

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