Why must
producers milk a cow dry until a franchise is worth less than a B-movie?
When movie makers decide to over-drag a movie, it makes you wonder why such a
plague has been allowed to continue, and no one has even bothered to find a
cure. It’s never your place to tell a man what movie he should or shouldn’t
make, but we, the fans, can help matters by actually airing our views about it.
My stand is that
a movie like Rush Hour,
which pulled off an awesome combination of martial arts action and comedy,
should have been laid to rest after the release of Rush Hour 2 in
2001. The truth is, movies like Mad Max, Die Hard, and Lethal
Weapon dragged on for too long until the last installments (Mad Max 3, Die
Hard 5, and Lethal Weapon 4) ended up being mediocre.
Moving forward,
the first Rush Hour was a form of classic. It pulled out all the
stops and made sure you, the viewer, would be laughing all the way to the bank.
The second one was just bull, and watching the errors the actors made during
filming was more interesting than the movie itself.
The worst thing
about this movie, I can remember, is Zhang Jingchu, who portrays Soo-Yung,
Ambassador Solon Han’s daughter. She was the worst thing to be seen on TV, as
she doesn’t even have an idea of what it means to be a convincing actor.
Now, the script
is where the high jump bar lies, and this movie failed to scale it. An
assassination attempt by the Triads on Ambassador Solon Han occurs, and Lee
(Jackie Chan) is present at the shooting. He chases the culprit to the street
until he finally catches up with him, only to discover it’s a childhood friend.
Chris Tucker was
annoying in this flick, and Jackie Chan was just not in form, making both look
like they were forced into the roles we’re seeing them in.
I don’t get it…
After such a bad performance, you’d think the producers would kill the
franchise. But that’s not to be, as talks are circling around that a Rush
Hour 4 could happen soon. I guess cash is now the motivation for
continuing this franchise because, as of now, I’ve lost any interest I may have
had in seeing a new Rush Hour.
My conclusion is this: watch Rush Hour 1 and 2, then stop. This one is nowhere worth viewing.
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