Unfortunately this is also downplayed in the end where she is kidnapped, bringing back her Damsel in Distress status.

Also Soo Yung who Took a Level in Badass in the third film.Downplayed with Isabella in the second film because she doesn't have much chance as Hu Li shot her in the shoulder.LAPD Officer Tania Johnson in the first film.Justified as the film is set in Paris, where the sewers really are like that. Absurdly Spacious Sewer: In the third film.In 2015, Chan said to media that production for Rush Hour 4 is in progress. However nine years since the last release, it was soon announced that the series will be rebooted into a TV series with a new cast. The franchise was thought finished after the third movie especially since Tucker has moved away from urban comedies and Chan had appeared in less and less Hollywood films. Of the three, this is the least well-received. Their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day. Lee also has personal struggles with a Chinese-Japanese criminal mastermind named Kenji ( Hiroyuki Sanada), who is also Lee's long-lost blood brother. After Ambassador Han is almost assassinated, they need to protect Genevieve (Noémie Lenoir), a French woman who has a list of the Triads' leaders. Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action in Paris. Like the first movie, she was trying to get them out of her way, but Lee and Carter again find the right chain of evidence that takes them to Las Vegas and the perfect money-laundering location. Lee and Carter attempt to bust them but are unsuccesful.īut following some hunches, Lee and Carter fly back to Los Angeles, where they meet meet Secret Service Agent Isabella Molina ( Roselyn Sánchez) who directs them on how to find the counterfeiters. Lee sees Ricky Tan (John Lone), the leader of a group of counterfeiters, and a woman named Hu Li ( Zhang Ziyi) in a nightclub. Lee and Carter are in Hong Kong on vacation. The combination of motor-mouthed Tucker with Chan's gravity defying stunts proved to be a winning combination, in no small part due to Chan's movies being mostly comedies anyway. box office ($269 million when adjusted for 2019 inflation). The first movie was a major success and became the 7th top-grossing film of 1998, with a gross of over $141 million at the U.S. The FBI requests help from the LAPD to 'babysit' Lee - who gladly use the opportunity to get rid of Detective James Carter (Tucker).

Lee flies in from Hong Kong to assist the FBI. Six months later, Juntao abducts Consul Han's daughter Soo Yung (Julia Hsu) in Los Angeles. On the last night of British rulership in Hong Kong, Detective Inspector Lee (Chan), a close friend of Consul Han (Tzi Ma), confiscates stolen artifacts from Crime Lord Juntao.

The film incorporates elements of martial arts, and the buddy cop Sub-Genre. The series centers on a pair of police detectives - one a Chinese police inspector, the other an LAPD detective - as they go on a series of misadventures often involving corrupt crime figures. Somewhere in Hollywood, a group of executives and Brett Ratner decided that Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker should make a movie together.

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