Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Best movie of this year hands down!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

As this sequel starts LAPD Detective James Carter is in Hong Kong visiting his friend Chief Inspector Lee, of the Hong Kong Police. There plans are interrupted when Lee gets a call informing him of a bombing at the US Consulate General; which killed two agents investigating smuggling. He soon establishes a link to Ricky Tan, a Triad leader who had previously served in the RHKP as the partner of Lee's father… who he murdered. Lee confronts Tan on his yacht; it looks as though he is about to ask for protection when he is shot by Hu Li, a beautiful female assassin who worked for him. Carter notices a LA based billionaire hotelier on the yacht so assumes he must be behind whatever Tan had been smuggling. Lee and Carter head to LA, where events lead them to Isabella Molina, a secret service agent they'd first met in Hong Kong; she tells them that she is looking for printing plates for making 'superdollars'; near perfect forged hundred dollar bills. Further events lead them to Las Vegas where they must confront the smugglers.After the success of the first Rush Hour movie a sequel was fairly inevitable. Often sequels are a bit disappointing but thankfully this one was as much fun as the first. The Hong Kong setting for the first half of the film provided plenty of good excuses for amusing incidents as Carter misunderstands the culture or fails in his attempts to speak Chinese. The story is solid enough with a good twist towards the end. As well as lots of laughs there is plenty of impressive action; this is all impressively choreographed. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker have a good chemistry as Lee and Tucker; each bringing something different to the film. Zhang Ziyi really impresses as Hi Li; she may not say much but she is great in the action scenes. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of the original film and I look forward to watching 'Rush Hour 3'… I hope it is as good as the first two.

*Spoiler/plot- Rush Hour 2, 2001. Reunited n Hong Kong, this cop duo expects a vacation but get an international case. They're tracking a slippery female assassin and mysterious Triade mobster importing counterfeit American $100 bills to Las Vegas.*Special Stars- Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Alan King, Roselyn Sanchez, Harris Yulin.*Theme- Teamwork and good communication among friends solve problems.*Trivia/location/goofs- Film sequel, watch for extremely funny 'behind the scenes' outtakes shown during the lengthy end credits. DVD is full of great additional material.*Emotion- This is one of the FEW sequel that breaks the customary "sequels are always bad" curse. An enjoyable to watch, fun, action packed well balanced film.*Based On- Rush Hour 1 exposition and plot.

No rush hour was extremely boring but 2 just sets the bar for a waste of a film once again the 2 fools produce no fun just silly jokes and real Borden its a mess i don't appreciate any positivity on this. I ts like any other sequel the same stuff but just more tripe 2 cops on the case whatever. Whatever martial art films no martial Aryn t films are rubbish. And the 3 red is rubbish even worse don't know why these films huh so don't watch its not worth it. are popular Beverie the people who like these are just as bad huh.people justing me whatevetvwhatevervwhatever whattevervwhateverbimbored with reviees borred with everything uwith there stupidity to films i hayer this bi hate it just listen to the truth

Rush Hour 2 is nowhere as good as Rush Hour 1 but you have to give them A for effort, as they did try to make you love it. Chan and Tucker have a way of keeping you glued as their combination is mouth watering, but after I was done watching this film… I enjoyed seeing the errors than I did seeing the film itself.Is not that Rush Hour 2 didn't have it's funny parts, because it did, it is just that from the set go you will know that the makers are trying so hard to make something out of nothing. At the end they achieved it all, they got us to go see the movie, got us to remember the movie for some also near death experience that makes you wonder just like in Rush Hour 1 and they somehow manage to create a story regardless of how weak it looked or sounded. Brett Ratner was called back to direct this film that was done 3 years after the first, so the choice is yours, do you think he did a good job? The movie plot stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker who respectively reprise their roles as Inspector Lee and Detective Carter. Now this time our duo starts their journey in Hong Kong and then found themselves back on American soil and in Vegas where they are all rolled up together with the secret service to bring down a counterfeit scam involving the Triads.The production cost for the movie is much higher than that of Rush Hour 1 mostly due to the success of the previous film Chris Tucker demanded a 20 million salary to reprise his role, at the end the movie was worth his pay at the box office. Rush Hour 1 cost $33 million and made $244 million, while this movie cost $90 million and took home $347 million from the box office and made massive cash in the home video sale.After the huge success of this movie, the production studio called the duo back for another Rush Hour run, although it took them six years to get the crew back together again so the movie was released in 2007.As I said this movie is nowhere as good as its predecessor, a lot of work and casting went into this one, but the final result didn't show that it cost 3 times more than the first but I will still say it is a fine movie to see.www.lagsreviews.com