The Reel Rejects - RUSH HOUR 3 (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: December 28, 2024

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We love you, we love you, love you. All right, let's get into it in three, two, one, let's go. Okay, we did it. Yep. You guys, we just watched Rush Hour 3. If you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, make sure you give us five big old stars because we're here and we're ready to talk about Rush Hour 3. Tara, what did you think of Rush Hour 3? I think because Rush Hour 2 was so very, very, very good.

This one was a bit of a letdown. There's some problems, I think, with the script, some conveniences that I thought were just like a little too obvious. What I think probably happened most likely with Brett Ratner and I think it was just said Jeff Nathanson was the writer is that they had so much success after two that they wrote three very rapidly and we're just like let's get it out. We have a budget. Let's just do it and didn't just we're like it's fine. We already have fans. People love it. It doesn't matter. Because you know when you can you can get a little sloppy when you like ride on like fame and like something being good. And that's what I think possibly happened here. I did like the stunts. I think the best ones were on the Eiffel Tower. I thought that was really cool and exciting to watch. The other ones, I know that they did some callbacks to like the chair stuff.

And they used stuff in their environment, like the table flip. But we didn't really get to see any fights full out, like you were saying, where we're pulled out to where we can really see them fight. through it. And I feel like that's what made two really enjoyable. We got to see all of the action. This one we're using more close-ups and cut-toes, which is fine if that's like your style. It's just they hadn't they hadn't really set that up as as their style in one and two. But anyhow, I liked the switch, the sort of like bait and switch, even though I kind of saw it coming when you mentioned, oh, is the Shee Young going to be that girl's father or it, sorry, Jackie Chan's

brother's father. And then I thought, oh, it's going to be the white guy at the embassy. He's going to have something to do with it. But whatever, we watch a bunch of movies. But I do think that was like it was a good switch if I had not seen that, I guess, coming, that that was a fun twist. The fun and also having the list on the back of her head, I thought was a cool, a cool twist. that she was the actual list, I thought was fun.

And I guess my other critique is just Chris Tucker. He just was so into like women so much. Of course, listen, we realize we were watching this movie and anybody watching it now, you would not be able to make this movie. It is not PC enough. It's just not right for the world. People would be offended, right?

We're not watching it to be like, oh, we should be offended. obviously you've seen us watch movies where we're like we get it this is not a movie we can make today but even for this movie made at this time it was like when he was like and a bra and the girl's like 16 i think and then him getting all of the women like naked i'm like okay all right like ha ha funny for comedy kind of they just really push the barrier with him and women with Chris Tucker's character specifically that I was like, I don't know why we're pushing this so hard. I would prefer to see him and Jackie Chan's relationship more and them joke around less than

Chris Tucker being so obsessed with women or them being like, oh, here's what we should do. I'm like, I'd rather see Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan's character hang out rather than see like the women aspect of it. But that's just me. I'm not saying you should take the women out of it. They're all gorgeous and great. I get that. Just maybe not as much and maybe focused more on the main characters. Yeah, this movie was mid.

But I think that it's disappointing because I really, really love the first two movies. And I think it struggles because it doesn't focus on with the thing that made the other two so good. It's the fact that, one, these two have such a strong relationship. But not only in the sense that they kind of worked it well together, but the fact that they are different and go, they're both capable of their jobs, but very different kind of ways. And I feel like we didn't utilize that enough. And also some of the writing choices were a little weird and the editing and the pacing. It's weird because this movie is the same length as two, but I felt like it felt like it felt longer. It felt way longer. I was like, how does this hour and a half movie feel like so long? It felt way longer. it felt like it ended like a few different times or it should have ended a few different times and the reasoning for him now being a street cop or a traffic cop was kind of just felt like off to me

and some of the beats just did not work like him seeing you're not my brother anymore I'm like that it just did not hit it didn't feel heartbreaking and we've had like the thing where like they separate before in the past before in the second one like Lee thought he died for a second in China and then they came back and like that worked fine That was great.

Yeah, that was a good moment. It was a good moment. And again, just the action was, some of it was good. You know, like the stuff on the Eiffel Tower was cool and like kind of the fight we saw earlier where they worked together with the guns. That stuff was fun. But I feel like just largely the contrast in what makes them each work individually as police officers and where they come together, that's where they work the strongest. I don't know. It just wasn't hitting the same for me.

something about it had that thing where franchises like see like oh this one thing's working let's just turn that one thing up to 11 with with Chris Tucker in the comedy and I felt like this movie didn't have that sense of balance because in the other movie the other two you had Jackie Chan brought the heart and he brought the action Chris Tucker brought the hilarity and the two of them together is what makes this thing work really well but it felt like we had a lot more comedy with Chris Tucker and a lot less heart with Jackie Chan and even the hard they did had kind of felt like an afterthought just for them to set it up in the finale and it just wasn't it didn't hit in the way that I think they intended it for it to hit and that's really unfortunate because they're adding all this lore in the finale in the third act like okay they introduced the fact that he has a brother and like oh it's actually his adopted brother actually I'm also adopted so I'm like where is this coming from it's like why are we now adding this this into it and it doesn't feel like it It played a big part into informing his character.

It's just something that the movie had for the sake of having a main antagonist. Because we had the lady with the knives and who was super capable. And then we had his brother. And then we see Chris Tucker, who is classically the buffoon character, but he takes out four guys by himself, which didn't seem believable to me. even though we did see him do pretty well in rush hour two in the one bath house scene which was which is great still the best scene of this entire franchise in my opinion um yeah something about it was just which is why they wrote in the writing that he had been practicing kung fu for two years like they add those things in there but like again it's normally like you were saying he's used for comedic relief is what we'd call it right he's the comedic relief and this one it's like overhanded with the comedy because they just thought assuming everybody loves

Chris Tucker and they may come here to these movies for this but the balance wasn't there that's not why people people are coming for the like the really nice balance between the two and I wonder if I have a feeling that this wasn't the original idea for rush hour three I feel like they wanted to make the New York movie because that's what they led up to in rush hour too but i don't know maybe with like scheduling conflicts or like maybe there's some sort of like writing strike going on at the time i don't know but it this felt like not hamfisted that's not the right word but it didn't it didn't feel like organically in line with the other two for some reason for me even though it did have things that were in the other two

like um the ambassador like the daughter you know like the stuff with the triad but it just felt some of the plot felt a little more convoluted and just the elements didn't mesh as well as I would have hoped for which is which is sad because but I will say that I didn't hate the movie I still had fun with it I still laughed during the movie I thought some of the action was fun I think they still worked together as a as a buddy cop duo I would watch another one if they were to make another one eventually yeah but I would want them to to kind of clean up the script a little bit more you know we can still have chris tucker be kind of you know um infatuated with women but maybe let's just like take a different approach to that you know maybe like

make it a little lesser maybe he's like older doesn't have the the same game that he used to and you know i don't know i like the idea of like the i'm too old for the shit kind of version of rush hour because what this the last one came on 2007 and now i have to imagine they if they were to start production on a rush hour we wouldn't get that at least until like 20 26 right which is like you know 20 years after the last one so I'm curious to see what that would be but yeah as as for this one it just um yeah it did not work as well and I'm sad you know it does but it doesn't take away from the experience I had from the other two because we both watch one and two and absolutely love them two to me is still one of the best action comedies of all time um but yeah I'm curious to know why it

didn't pan out the way that we thought it would. Maybe kind of what you were playing on with the DP and the editor. Because even this one has a lot more green screen in it too. And it would like noticeably so. Yeah. I mean, the green screen is probably more of a location versus maybe Brett's decisions. But I was thinking that, you know, directors rely on DPs. DPs can get pitches of what they think like, hey, can I try this?

This will look cool. Sometimes the director is not always. in charge of a bunch of shots. They just say, hey, like a master, a mid or a close-up, maybe from over here and the DP might pitch something, which is why I was thinking, I don't know, maybe he did a lot of mid and close-up shots, didn't get any masters. I doubt it, which is what made my brain go to the next thing saying it's an editor's choice. And if Brett is not in there the whole time, or maybe even if he is, normally, you know,

you get a kind of a rough take. Director has to come in and approve certain things. and maybe he just still liked what he saw. And again, if this is 2007, I'm starting to think like, when did Born Identity come out? Because the editing in that movie, those are very cool movies,

but it's like, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. What time? I haven't seen those. Okay. This is no spoilers. It's just, it's close up. And you know how the action is very quick. And you're sort of like,

I don't really know exactly what's going on here. it's cool. I wonder if they were inspired to kind of like switch it up because they're like, oh, we've already done this. Maybe let's get more advanced for being in 2007 in the possible action films that were coming out weren't doing like a lot of masters where you could see the full stunts. But those movies also don't have freaking Jackie Chan who can do all of it in one take. So show it to us.

Other than that, I'm still a big fan of the Friends. If they made another one, I would watch it. Still, still a good time. Love them both together. Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Okay, guys. Do you enjoy watching Rush Hour with us in the entire trilogy?

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