The Reel Rejects - RUSH HOUR (1998) IS HILARIOUS!! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:02:04 here. The pinnacle of the action comedy. Let's put a pause on this. Let's see. We're not trying to watch whatever this next movie is. I'm trying to enjoy the awesomeness. That is rush hour. Yeah. Tara, what did you think of it? I loved it. I really, really liked it. I thought it was fun. I think it's really fun when you get to watch a movie that could never be made today. Of course, there's a lot of jokes that you're like oh my god okay like so 90s um but uh for the sake of of laughter and fun it was still like fun like i didn't i didn't feel bad about laughing at some of these like non-PC jokes i just was like okay this is a good time mainly though i think that the number one thing that you come here for this film is for jacky chan and all of his fight choreography i mean he

Starting point is 00:02:53 totally steals the show tucker does he's obviously a great comedian. Great with comedic pacing and tone and like timing. So to have that mix together, for someone to have the idea, you have to be very specific in casting. So I don't know if the person writing it had both of their names in their head when they were writing it or if it was a casting job, but to have Tucker and Chan together. And their chemistry was great. It wasn't like a fish out of water situation. It was like that in the beginning, but then they really come together. And they're almost like two peas in a pod, which is a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:03:35 But when they become two peas in a pod, I didn't find it not believable. It all made sense, the way that they took the progression of the story and the way that you see Jackie Chan move through it with him. Especially like I called it out during the montage where they're teaching each other, like how to do the gun thing, right? And they're kind of like bonding and they're doing it with that song. And then that's kind of the moment

Starting point is 00:04:00 that brings them together right before they go fight together. And I think he realizes, I liked that after Jackie Chan was sent away, I think the thing I liked in the writing was that Tucker took over the story of that he started to really care about the little girl's life.

Starting point is 00:04:18 Whereas before he wouldn't really, he'd just be like, I want to be FBI, right? but Jackie Chan rubbed off on him in that way of having because we hadn't really seen him as like a human we just seen him as an egotistical kind of a guy who's this cop so I like that switch in him and I think that would not have happened without Jackie Chan so that's where a really great character arc you can see it with him

Starting point is 00:04:44 and that that wouldn't have happened without Jackie Chan's presence in this movie which is a great how you show a movie how two people change throughout it and they did and they also saved the girl's lives and I loved it and they become it's like they become buddies at the end and I love that yeah yeah I think this movie was very believable having these two very different guys come together it seems like two guys to have no business in any semblance of the same space uh be able to hold space equally I feel I feel like they both brought different strengths to their buddy comic their buddy cop dynamic and I felt that, you know, because normally you have the straight man and you have the more off the

Starting point is 00:05:27 wall one. But it was an interesting kind of thing where they subverted that a little bit, where you could say that Jackie Chan is the straight man, but he kind of makes up in that by being super earnest and being super badass. Whereas Chris Tucker is very off the cuff and very funny. So they both bring different things and they work off of each other really well to make both aspects of them as individuals work when the other one is not on screen. And having them find a way to work together

Starting point is 00:05:58 surprisingly works really well and you would think that it wouldn't. And yeah, kind of to go off of what you were saying. I don't know if they were the initial kind of dynamic what they pitched with this or they have these two actors in mind. But I couldn't see another

Starting point is 00:06:14 world where it was somebody other than these two. Right. And yeah, they did have a little bit of the fish out of water thing with Jackie Chan coming to LA and for what it seems like that second movie is going to be Chris Tucker going to China which that should be fun

Starting point is 00:06:29 whenever we get to experience that but yeah the mystery was interesting and all the action was really cool and very well shot just getting to see Jackie Chan really own the space that he was in and finding new

Starting point is 00:06:46 creative ways to use his environment and use his feet to take down multiple enemies i have like a i've seen jacky chan movies here and there like i mainly my main experience main kind of exposure to jacky chan isn't even a movie it's the jacky chan adventures an animated show from when i was a kid and if you guys watch that show let's know down the comments below because that shit is classic but yeah i've seen like i've have vague remnants of like tuxedo as a kid never seen these movies um me and terrah watched karate kid and he's great in that you know this is like what probably like close

Starting point is 00:07:20 to 20 years after that fact he's like he still got it man and i understand why he's a star in his own right because he just has that perfect balance of of earnestness while having his own brand of comedy that's not the same brand of comedy as chris tucker because that's like his primary strength in the film but yeah his earnestness and his action are really what kind of make him such a powerful movie star and i wonder i understand why he's stood the test of time having those qualities as a performer Yeah. It's great. I feel like it's the story of a disgraced,

Starting point is 00:07:55 disrespected, chaotic cop meeting a very respected, in-control officer, which would be Jackie Chan, and how the chaos rubs off on the in-controlness and how they find a way to meet in the middle. Totally. It's like chaos and control, meet in the middle. That's this story. And how it progresses.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Like they both need each other to take those. those big risks in saving the girl and then meeting in the middle is how they get the job done, which is a lot of fun. Yeah, and that one scene kind of talked about as it was happening, like them needing each other, learning from one another without a bunch of exposition or dialogue. Yeah. To kind of accompany that with the gun scene and the dancing and the singing. I'm like, yeah, that's all great, you know.

Starting point is 00:08:44 And I think that's the Pinnacle Bowl, makes a classic movie. The way that this is able to balance its comedy and its action equally was super impressive because you don't want it to lean more to one side than the other. You want to be able to ride that line down the middle. It had a nice balance. It did. And I feel like with the exposition, there wasn't a lot of it really at all. I mean, even when I was like, traitor, it's not like they really called it out.

Starting point is 00:09:10 Like they're like, ooh, Gentow and it's him. And all they had to say was like, oh, I remember him from the building, right? And when the girl disables the bomb, we all have it in. our head there's a reason they're showing us her failing at the bomb testing that's probably going to come back if you watch a bunch of movies but if you don't we didn't need to be like oh don't you take care of bombs like get in this van and do it like you know i don't know there might be some other movies that might write more exposition into this but like you don't need it you just need to trust the audience i think they did a good job of trusting us that we would follow along

Starting point is 00:09:41 with the story without all of the the exposition notes and i like that a lot i agree Yeah, it's a simple story and it's fun. And I understand why it's a classic. You know, I would love to see these guys do a bunch more adventures. I know they've been trying to make, I think there's three rush hours thus far. And I know they've been trying for years to make a fourth one. And, you know, if you guys like this and you watch the videos, we'll definitely do more. And hopefully one day get on that journey to rush hour four if they'd ever decide to rush hour for.

Starting point is 00:10:15 But I think Tara has some. I have some trivia. let's read some. The Food Chow is a real restaurant in Chinatown. As of August 2024, there's still sign that states rush hour was shot here. I love that. Didn't know that. That's amazing. According to the director, Brett Ratner, this movie was the first movie to be released in the U.S. featuring Jackie Chan in an English-speaking role without any kind of dubbing. According to Ratner, before this movie, Chan had always had his voice dubbed over in his English-speaking roles because of his uncertainty.

Starting point is 00:10:47 in speaking the language. However, Chan spoke in his real voice for his previous Hollywood films, Battle Creek Brawl, the Cannonball Run, Cannonball 2, the protector for this movie. Ratner claims that to have convinced him to forego the dubbing, as it would lend to the authenticity

Starting point is 00:11:03 of his character, which, yeah, absolutely, I would have hated if it was dubbed. I don't think the movie would have done as well. Jackie Chan said that the scene when his character first meets Chris Tucker's character was very similar to the first time the actors met in real life at the offices of the William Morris Agency. Chan said Tucker was talking so fast that after the meeting ended,

Starting point is 00:11:25 Chan told his manager, I don't understand any of the words coming out of his mouth, a line that was used in the film. I love that. I'll read like two more. Jackie Chan was almost killed filming the scene where he's almost crushed by metal boxes. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:11:42 They slammed together about a quarter of a second after his head was clear. Dude. That is how much that guy puts his life on the line for these stunts. That is wild. Like, that's crazy.

Starting point is 00:11:57 Uh, wow. Chris Tucker improvised much of his dialogue as he normally does in his movies. According to director, Brett Ratner, during the scene at Gromons where Detective Carter bribed Stuckey for information,

Starting point is 00:12:13 there was so much improv between Tucker and John Hawks that they almost did not think they could edit it together as a coherent conversation. They probably were just going back so much. There is still continuity errors in the dialogue for this reason. Oh my God. I freaking, I love that so much. Maybe let's see if I can possibly find like maybe one spoiler. Brett Ratner was a big fan of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies. He felt that American audiences would not be familiar with the jokes in Jackie's other movies and deliberately reuse some of his gags.

Starting point is 00:12:50 For example, the scene where Inspector Lee accidentally grabs Johnson's breast is a reference to Jackie Chan's film, Mr. Nice Guy. So there's some like Easter eggs in them. Body Count 12, 2 by Carter, none by Lee. Because he's the good guy. Yeah, I love that because I think in a lot of his movies, he's always just not, it's not the cart so we're okay um i think in a lot of his movies he doesn't and he he just does

Starting point is 00:13:24 all of his stunts but we don't see him actually kill anybody on screen which i love i think it's fun i love this movie i give a 10 out of 10 it was a blastrooney if there's more great i hope it i hope it stars them still like don't switch it up on me because i will not be a fan no no we don't want that. But anyway, guys, we've had so much fun watching. I hope you guys enjoyed watching with us. Let us know what you think down in the comments, and we'll see you guys in the next one. Looses.

Starting point is 00:13:55 Landon Miller. Landon, my man. Boy. Check this out. Imagine this. John has a kid. Oh, I do. With a Chinese woman.

Starting point is 00:14:09 I did. The kid is Chinese. My Chinese boy. The kid is then kidnapped. And then John hires the two best cops in the world, Greg and Landon Miller. And Landon. Because Landon Miller, though, oh. See, I'm the straight shooter.

Starting point is 00:14:29 I'm the guy with the fight on the brute one. But Landon, he's got corks. He's got, he's got some eccentric idiosyncrasies, one might say, John. He's got some unorthodox ideas. See, like, in interrogation rooms, he's just chipping away at them nuts. People are like, what are these shells building for? Any monologues, get you. You know, he often drives around in a diaper because you lose too much time.

Starting point is 00:15:02 Yes. Having to stop and go somewhere. Yeah. It's the Dwayne Johnson theory. Can't waste time on that. No, yeah, there's too much, there's not enough time in the deck. Landon also has very, very. fascinating dark interrogation methods does yeah sometimes he takes clothespins to

Starting point is 00:15:19 people's nipples oh the diabolical now it ranges some enjoy others they people love others really they they give up information right away yeah he doesn't even have to put the clothespin on but then some turn into lovers that's true that's landing baby you can't deny the miller that's the land in love once landed lands on you good luck getting out from sometimes yeah those ways confused people oh they have a word for that but we don't need to acknowledge what that really means nor yeah because that's dark and that ruins the comedy yeah to talk about the implications of what landin really is doing these people at that point keep it fantastic yeah we keep it fun fanciful and fluffy and we don't want to upset people there so yeah landin you continue to keep assaulting people in order for them to fall in love with you and i I hope he has the strongest bond. A great Merry Christmas. Same.

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The Reel Rejects - RUSH HOUR (1998) IS HILARIOUS!! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching!

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