Rush Hour 2
Short description
Detective James Carter travels to Hong Kong to spend a vacation with his friend, Inspector Lee. Carter looks forward to nightlife and meeting women, but Lee is focused on a case involving a Triad leader suspected of involvement in a bombing at the American embassy that killed two customs agents investigating counterfeit money. The investigation draws the pair into a counterfeiting operation and puts them in repeated danger, with the trail eventually leading back to the United States.
Rush Hour 2 is an action comedy directed by Brett Ratner, the fourth of the thirteen films he has directed in chronological order, following The Family Man and preceding Red Dragon. Jeff Nathanson wrote the screenplay, and Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman and Arthur M. Sarkissian produced. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker return as Lee and Carter, joined by John Lone, Roselyn Sánchez, Zhang Ziyi and Alan King. The film was released in August 2001 and runs 90 minutes.
Made for a budget of 90 million US dollars, the film took 347 million US dollars worldwide, a strong return on its cost. On IMDb it holds 6.7 out of 10 from around 259,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.8 out of 10 from roughly 4,800 votes. A critics' rating of 5.7 out of 10 from 127 reviews places it below the audience scores on both sites.
What's left behind the scenes
- The character of Hu Li, played by Zhang Ziyi, was originally intended to be male.
- The scene in which Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan run naked through the streets of Hong Kong is a real shoot; the film crew did not have the opportunity to block traffic on the street.
- Don Cheadle, who plays Kenny, agreed to star in the film only if he would fight Jackie Chan and speak Chinese.
- Hu Li, translated from one of the Chinese dialects, means 'Fox'.
- When Chris Tucker says that Asians always panic, referencing the Godzilla movie, he shouts: 'Hyaku! Hyaku!', which translates from Japanese as 'Faster! Faster!'
- During the filming of the movie, Zhang Ziyi did not speak English, and Jackie Chan had to act as a translator.
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