Worst of 2024 (So Far)
Somehow we’re already halfway through the year. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest disappointments from the first-half of 2024.
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Rush Hour
Rush Hour 3
- Title: Rush Hour 3
- IMDb: link
To date the last of the Rush Hour films, Rush Hour 3 is the weakest (by far). Every aspect of the film feels tired, pulling lesser versions of villains from both the first two films, and throwing Lee (Jackie Chan) and Carter (Chris Tucker) together ending up in Paris. We get the the abduction of Soo Yung (Jingchu Zhang) like in the first film, the evil philanthropist (Max Von Sydow) in plain sight like the first film, a villain (Hiroyuki Sanada) tied to Lee’s past like in the second film, and bigger stunts, goofy sequences (including Carter’s groanworthy fight sequence in a dojo and the molestation by French cops) and exotic locales in an attempt to hide the script’s many, many problems.
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Rush Hour 2
- Title: Rush Hour 2
- IMDb: link
Released three-years after the first film, Rush Hour 2 gives us Lee (Jackie Chan) and the vacationing Carter (Chris Tucker) in Hong Kong to open the film before the pair return to Los Angeles and ultimately end up in Las Vegas tackling a case connected to the Chinese Triad and the former partner (John Lone) of Lee’s father who framed him for his own crimes and murdered him.
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Rush Hour
- Title: Rush Hour
- IMDb: link
The late 90s and early 2000s were the time for Hollywood to pair up Jackie Chan with a more comedic American co-star. Rush Hour gave us Chan as Chief Inspector Lee who is brought to the United States by Ambassador Han (Tzi Ma) after his daughter (Julia Hsu) is kidnapped. The FBI, not wanting Lee to get in the way, enlist mouthy LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) to babysit Lee and keep him out of the investigation. That doesn’t go well with neither happy about their limited role in the investigation.
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