''Rush Hour'' is a 1998 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by

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and written by Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna from a story by LaManna. It stars

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and Chris Tucker as mismatched police officers who are assigned to rescue a Chinese diplomat's abducted daughter. Tom Wilkinson,

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and Elizabeth Peña play supporting roles. Released on September 18, 1998, the film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $245 million worldwide. Its box office commercial success led to two sequels: '' Rush Hour 2'' (2001) and ''

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'' (2007).

Plot

On the last day of British rule of Hong Kong on June 30, 1997, Detective Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force leads a raid at the wharf, hoping to arrest the unidentified, anonymous crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang, Juntao's right-hand man, who escapes in a boat. Lee recovers numerous Chinese cultural treasures stolen by Juntao, which he presents as a farewell victory gift to his departing superiors, Chinese consul Solon Han and British police commander Thomas Griffin. Two months later after Han takes up his new diplomatic post in Los Angeles, Han's daughter Soo Yung is kidnapped by Sang while on her way to school. Han calls Lee to assist in the case, but the

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, fearing that Lee's involvement could cause an international incident, pawns him off on the

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. Detective James Carter, a talented but obnoxious LAPD officer who is disliked by the rest of his precinct for his self-aggrandizing attitude, is tricked into "babysitting" Lee as punishment for botching a sting operation under the guise of an arms deal. When Carter finds out, he decides to solve the case. Carter takes Lee on a sightseeing tour, keeping him away from the embassy while contacting informants about the kidnapping. Lee gets into trouble at a bar when Carter tells him to follow his lead, resulting in Lee calling a black bartender the

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, unaware it is offensive. Several black patrons attack Lee as a result, forcing him to defeat them. Carter tries to prevent Lee from leaving him but Lee makes his own way to the Chinese Consulate, where Han and the FBI await news about his daughter. While arguing with Special Agent in Charge Warren Russ, Carter unwittingly negotiates with Sang, arranging a $50 million ransom drop. The FBI traces the call to a warehouse, where a team of agents are killed by

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. Spotting Sang nearby, Lee and Carter give chase but he escapes, dropping the detonator. Carter's colleague, LAPD bomb expert Tania Johnson, traces it to Clive Cobb, the man arrested by Carter in the earlier botched sting operation. Lee presses Clive into revealing his business relationship with Juntao, whom he met at the Foo Chow restaurant in

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. Clive is initially unwilling to speak to the duo but Lee shows him a picture of Soo Yung, causing him to relent. Lee then begins to earn Carter's trust. Carter goes to the restaurant alone and sees a surveillance video of Juntao carrying Soo Yung into a van. Lee arrives and saves Carter from Juntao's syndicate, but they are taken off the case as the FBI blames them for the botched ransom drop, with Lee sent back to Hong Kong. However, Carter refuses to give up and appeals to Johnson for assistance to sneak on board Lee's plane, where he persuades the Hong Kong detective to help stop Juntao together. Griffin later involves himself in the case, revealing more about the HKPF's past with Juntao's syndicate, and implores Han to pay the ransom to avoid further bloodshed. At the opening of a Chinese art exhibition at the

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, overseen by Han and Griffin, the now $70 million ransom is delivered, and Carter, Lee, and Johnson enter disguised as guests. Carter orders the guests to evacuate for safety, angering the FBI, but Lee catches Griffin accepting a remote for the detonator from Sang. Lee and Johnson realize Griffin is Juntao when Carter recognizes him from the Chinatown surveillance tape. Griffin threatens to detonate a bomb vest attached to Soo Yung and demands that the ransom be paid in full, as compensation for the priceless Chinese artifacts which Lee recovered in his raid. Juntao's men start a shootout with the FBI while Carter sneaks out, locates Soo Yung in the van, and drives it into the building within range of Griffin, preventing him from setting off the vest. Johnson gets the vest off Soo Yung, while Griffin heads to the roof with the bag of money. Lee takes the vest and pursues Griffin. Sang tries to deceive Carter and pulls a gun on him but Carter manages to shoot Sang first and saves Russ. Lee has a brief altercation with Griffin that culminates in both dangling from the rafters. Griffin, holding on to the vest, falls to his death when its straps are torn, but when Lee falls, Carter catches him with a large flag. Han and Soo Yung are reunited and Han sends Carter and Lee on vacation to Hong Kong as a reward. Before Carter leaves, agents Russ and Whitney offer him a position in the FBI, which he mockingly refuses, proudly stating he is LAPD. Carter boards the plane with Lee, who annoyingly starts singing Edwin Starr's " War" off-key. A desperate Carter yells for a stewardess, demanding that she give him another seat.

Cast

as Chief Inspector Lee, a top Hong Kong cop skilled in martial arts who comes to Los Angeles to help his friend find his kidnapped daughter. * Chris Tucker as Detective James Carter, a fast-talking street-smart LAPD Detective originally assigned by the FBI to babysit Lee and keep him out of their investigation. * Tom Wilkinson as Thomas Griffin/Juntao, a British diplomat and colleague of Han's who is secretly a top crime lord in Hong Kong. * Tzi Ma as Consul Solon Han, Soo Yung's father and a Hong Kong diplomat who has just moved to Los Angeles. * Ken Leung as Sang, Juntao's second in command. * Elizabeth Peña as Detective Tania Johnson, an aspiring bomb squad technician in the LAPD who helps Carter rescue Soo-Yung. * Mark Rolston as

Special Agent Warren Russ *

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as FBI Agent Dan Whitney, Russ's partner *

as Clive Cod, a small time arms dealer who was arrested by Carter in a botched sting operation. * Philip Baker Hall as Captain Bill Diel, Carter's supervisor. He gives Carter the FBI assignment as punishment for a botched undercover sting operation. * Julia Hsu as Soo-Yung Han, Consul Han's daughter who is kidnapped by a criminal organization. She is also a martial arts student of Lee's. Other cast members include John Hawkes as Carter's informant "Stucky", Clifton Powell as Carter's cousin Luke, Barry Shabaka Henley as prison guard Bobby, Roger Fan and George Cheung as Soo-Yung's bodyguards, Gene LeBell as a taxi driver, and Frances Fong (in her final film role) as a socialite. Jackie Chan Stunt Team members

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, Nicky Li Chung-chi, Chan Man-ching and Andy Cheng appear as Juntao's henchmen.

Production

''Rush Hour'' began as a spec script written in 1995 by screenwriter Ross LaManna. The screenplay was sold by LaManna's

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agent Alan Gasmer to Hollywood Pictures, a division of

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, with Arthur Sarkissian attached as producer. After attaching director

and developing the project for more than a year with producers including Sarkissian,

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and Roger Birnbaum, Disney Studios chief

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put the project into turnaround, citing concerns about the $34 million budget, and

's appeal to American audiences. Several studios were interested in acquiring the project.

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was confident in Ratner, having done '' Money Talks'' with him, so they made a hard commitment to a budget and start date for ''Rush Hour''.

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, Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock,

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, Dave Chappelle, and

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were considered for the role of Detective James Carter. Murphy turned down the role to do ''

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'' instead while Snipes turned down the role in favor of ''

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'', which was also for New Line Cinema. Chan wanted Lawrence for the role, but he turned it down due to a low offer. After the success of '' Rumble in the Bronx'', Ratner wanted to put Chan in a buddy-cop movie, not as a co-star or sidekick but on equal footing with an American star. Ratner flew to

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where Chan was filming and pitched the film. A few days later Chan agreed to star and not long after flew to Los Angeles and met Chris Tucker, the latter actor who ended up taking the role as Detective James Carter. Ratner credited Tucker with getting his first feature film '' Money Talks'' and thought Tucker and Chan would make a great team. Filming began on November 30, 1997. Shooting took place mainly in locations around the

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, including the

, Grauman's Chinese Theater,

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, Ennis House, and

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. The opening sequence was shot in

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Reception

Box office

''Rush Hour'' opened at No. 1 in September 1998 at the North American box office, with a weekend gross of $33 million. It surpassed ''

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'' to have the highest September opening weekend and ''

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'' to have the biggest opening weekend for a

film. The film would hold latter record until the following June when '' Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' took it. ''Rush Hour'' would continue to hold the September record for three more years until it was surpassed by '' Sweet Home Alabama'' in 2002. Overall, it would top the box office for two weeks before getting displaced by ''

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''. ''Rush Hour'' grossed $141.2 million in the US and Canada, and $104.1 million internationally for a total worldwide gross of 245.3 million.

Critical response

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, a

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, ''Rush Hour'' holds an approval rating of 62% based on 77 reviews and an average score of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "While it won't win any awards for originality, the combustible chemistry between its stars means ''Rush Hour'' hits just as hard on either side of the action-comedy divide." On

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, the film received a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

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praised both Jackie Chan, for his entertaining action sequences without the use of

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s, and Chris Tucker, for his comical acts in the film, and how they formed an effective comedic duo. Joe Leydon of '' Variety'' called it "a frankly formulaic but raucously entertaining action comedy". Leydon is critical of the editing, saying that it "works against Chan by breaking up the flow of his frenzied physicality." Charles Taylor of Salon.com is critical of Hollywood misusing Jackie Chan: "Chan is a one-of-a-kind performer: Bruce Lee crossed with Donald O'Connor in the "Make 'em Laugh" number from ''

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''. Hollywood needs to stop treating him as if he were one of those fondue sets given as wedding gifts in the '70s: a foreign novelty shoved in a closet due to absolute cluelessness about what to do with it." Michael O'Sullivan of ''

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'' calls the film a "misbegotten marriage of sweet and sour" and says, "The problem is it can't make up its mind and, unlike

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, the sharply contrasting flavors of these ingredients only leave a bad taste in the customer's mouth." O'Sullivan says Tucker is miscast, the script "perfunctory and sloppy", and the direction "limp, lethargic". Owen Gleiberman of ''

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'' gave the film a grade "C−" and was critical of the buddy comedy, saying, "The two characters barely even have a relationship; they're a union of demographics—the "urban" market meets the slapstick-action market." Chan has expressed dissatisfaction with the film: "I didn’t like the movie. I still don’t like the movie." Chan continued: "I don’t like the way I speak English, and I don’t know what Chris Tucker is saying". Although he respects the box-office success of ''Rush Hour'', Chan said he preferred the films he made in his native Hong Kong because they delivered more fight scenes: "If you see my Hong Kong movies, you know what happens: Bam bam bam, always Jackie Chan-style, me, 10 minutes of fighting."

Cultural influence

''Rush Hour'' was the catalyst for the creation of the review-aggregation website

. Senh Duong, the website's founder and a Jackie Chan fan, was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chan's

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as they were being released in the United States. In anticipation of ''Rush Hour'', Chan's first major Hollywood crossover, he coded the website in two weeks and the site went live shortly before the film's release.

Sequels

A sequel, '' Rush Hour 2'', which was primarily set in Hong Kong, was released in 2001. A third film, ''

'', which was primarily set in Paris, was released on August 10, 2007. Tucker earned $25 million for his role in the third film and Chan received the film's distribution rights in Asia. In 2007, before the release of ''Rush Hour 3'', Ratner was optimistic about making a fourth film and potentially having it set in Moscow. In 2017, Chan agreed to a potential script for ''Rush Hour 4'' after years of turning down scripts.

Music

Edwin Starr's "

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" was used as the ending theme for the film. The film's soundtrack features the hit single " Can I Get A..." by

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and Amil, as well as tracks by Flesh-n-Bone,

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, Charli Baltimore and Montell Jordan. The official soundtrack album was certified platinum on January 21, 1999.

Awards

* 1999

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s ** Winner: Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film ( Elizabeth Peña) * 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards ** Winner: BMI Film Music Award (

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) * 1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards ** Winner: Favorite Duo- Action/Adventure (

and Chris Tucker) ** Nomination: Favorite Supporting Actress- Action/Adventure ( Elizabeth Peña) * 1999 Bogey Awards (Germany) ** Winner: Bogey Awards in Silver * 1999 Golden Screen (Germany) ** Winner: Golden Screen * 1999

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s ** Nomination: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television (

) * 1999

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s ** Nomination: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture ( Chris Tucker) * 1999

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(United States) ** Nomination: Favorite Movie Actor (Blimp Award) ( Chris Tucker) * 1999

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** Winner: Best On-Screen Duo (

and Chris Tucker) ** Nomination: Best Comedic Performance ( Chris Tucker) ** Nomination: Best Fight (

and Chris Tucker) (For the fight against the Chinese gang) ** Nomination: Best Movie Song (

) (For Can I Get A...)

Home media

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UMD

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References

External links

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