| | | A Brett Ratner Film.
Features: DVD, Special Edition
For two cops on vacation, life in the fast land is about to take a turn for the worse! Get ready for a head-on collision with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in the year's funniest action comedy, Rush Hour 2!
"Hilarious! Better than the first!" Bill Diehl, ABC Radio
"...faster and funnier than the first...Chan's acrobatic high jinks play strikingly off of Tucker's wiseass humor..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...takes the first movie's shtick global...a better time than the first one." Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
Crime fighting has never been so hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and assassin Zhang Ziyi, whose beautiful, balletic kick packs a head-ringing wallop. A fish out of water in exotic Hong Kong, Tucker talks his way into reams of trouble, saved time and again by Chan's frantic fighting. Though the two detectives are taken off the bombing case, unpaid debts between Chan and the criminals lead the detectives back to the U.S. and into the middle of an international counterfeiting racket that only Chan and Tucker can expose. Fans of the first RUSH HOUR can't miss this hilarious sequel, and buddy-cop movie aficionados will recognize the dazzling zingers slammed back and forth between Chan and Tucker as the true sign of a winning film.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Trailers |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 1/8/2008 |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 10937 | | UPC: 00794043109379 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Alan King | | Chris Tucker | | Jackie Chan | | Zhang Ziyi | | Andrew Max Cahn, et. al. - Art Director | | Brett Ratner - Director | | Jeff Nathanson - Screenplay | | Mark Helfrich - Editor | | Matthew F. Leonetti - Cinematographer | | Nile Rodgers, et. al. - Original Music By | | Robert K. Lambert - Editor | | Roger Birnbaum - Producer | | Ross LaManna - Based On Characters Created By | | Terence Marsh - Production Designer | | Toby Emmerich - Executive Producer |
| Awards |
Nominee (2002) | | | Image Award, Chris Tucker, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | | | Image Award, Rush Hour 2, Outstanding Motion Picture | |
Winner (2002) | | | MTV Award, Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Best Fight | |
Nominee (2002) | | | MTV Award, Chris Tucker, Best Comedic Performance | | | MTV Award, Chris Tucker, Best Musical Sequence | | | MTV Award, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Best On-Screen Team | | | MTV Award, Ziyi Zhang, Best Villain |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...[The] full orchestra action music works like an energy boost on the ears....Tucker is louder, more aggressive and funnier this time....Zhang, of course, owns the screen..." 07/30/2001 p.17-22New York Times
"...Mr. Chan dances through some uproarious martial-arts battles....Mr. Chan and Mr. Tucker are always fun to watch. Mr. Tucker has an unusual comic talent..." 08/03/2001 p.E11 Entertainment Weekly
"...Chan's got the universal language of physical comedy on his side..." 08/10/2001 p.45-6 Rolling Stone
"...Chan's acrobatic high jinks play strikingly well off of Tucker's wiseass humor..." 08/30/2001 p.131-2 Los Angeles Times
"...Chan is still the most watchable of action stars, a human special effect..." 08/03/2001 p.1 Sight and Sound
"...[Chan] remains a peerless physical performer....Director Brett Ratner keeps us briskly hopping from one action set piece to the next..." 10/01/2001 p.57-8 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Jackie Chan is amazing as usual in the action sequences..." 08/03/2001 p.29 ReelViews 6 of 10
While the rules of the buddy/action comedy are significantly different from those of the romantic comedy, one key ingredient is common to both popular genres: that of chemistry between the leads. Unfortunately, while both motormouthed Chris Tucker and rubber limbed Jackie Chan are energetic and charismatic in their own right, they mix as well as oil and water. Yes, their characters - Hong Kong Detective Inspector Lee and LAPD's Detective James Carter - are supposed to be mismatched. The problem is that the actors seem to be less in synch than their on-screen alter egos. There's more going on between sizzling Roselyn Sanchez and Chan, who only share a handful of scenes, than between Chan and Tucker...Everything about Rush Hour 2 is obligatory, from the action to the tiresome banter, and that makes it just another stale sequel in a summer that has had no shortage of those. - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 7 of 10
...Tucker definitely takes the term "ugly American" to a whole new level. From the minute his character, LAPD detective James L. Carter, arrives in Hong Kong to visit his friend Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), he's a font of offensive observations, telling the Chinese Lee that he'll "bitch-slap his ass back to Bangkok [Thailand]"...In an uncredited cameo, Don Cheadle shows up as the owner of a South-Central L.A. Chinese restaurant who not only speaks fluent Cantonese, but is also trained with the brother of Lee's kung-fu master. And, unlike Replacement Killers, Anna and the King, Romeo Must Die, and Kiss of the Dragon, here the Asian leading man gets the girl. Although it's just a chaste smooch, Jackie's brief lip-lock with the luscious Sanchez is still a step forward. That, and the hilarious outtakes during the end credits (a staple of Chan movies) make Rush Hour 2 an enjoyable alternative in a summer of disappointments. - Tor Thorsen
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