Jackie Chan knows exactly what happened with rush hour 3

While Hong Kong’s action films by Jackie Chan were huge abroad, it was only in the mid -90s when he really started to attract the attention of the American public. It is easy to see why his magnetic presence resumed if his stuntman’s work was (and is always) impressive jaw. The popularity of the Chan couple with the rising power of Chris Tucker and you have the “Rush Hour” franchise, a trilogy of Globe Spanning action comedies which revitalized Buddy’s comedy for a new generation.

The chief inspector of Hong Kong, Lee (Jackie Chan), would come up against the detective of Lapd with a noisy mouth James Carter (Chris Tucker) while they found themselves in all kinds of explosive hijinks. A large part of the humor of back and forth from the pair commenting on their various cultural shocks, which certainly places these films during the period when they were made. Even with many occasional racist and sexist jokes that feel annoying according to contemporary standards, there is always a condition for these films because of the chemistry of the natural screen of Chan and Tucker.

Although the critical reception was mixed on the films “Hour Rush” at best, they were above all a success with the American public. Chan complicated feelings about the whole case, because they were not exactly the kind of films he wanted to continue to make, but they continued to earn money in the Western markets. “Rush Hour 3” from 2007, however, saw the series hitting a wall from which it has never really recovered. He received the worst criticism from the franchise with a note of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is ironic given the first film inadvertently led to the creation of the site. There were many factors that contributed to the failure of the Capper trilogy, and Chan has a fairly good idea of ​​what they were.

In an interview loaded with puppies with “Buzzfeed”, Chan was asked how he would classify the films “Hour Rush”. The superstar of martial arts did not give an exact order, but the way in which he spoke of the aftermath said almost everything. I will give you a clue. Chan did not have many beautiful things to say about the Three-Budgeted Threequel (via Variety):

“You know what, the first: little money, shortly. We pulled it like:” Come on, come on, go! “The second: a lot of money, a lot of time.

To give a little context to Chan’s statements, the first “rush hour” was made with a modest budget of $ 35 million, while the monetary resources of its consequences increased exponentially with each episode. “Rush Hour 2” has almost tripled its budget with a price of $ 90 million “, followed by” Rush Hour 3 “jumping in the stratosphere with more than $ 140 million” with which to play. It is an amazing sum of money for 2007 and an average successful sidewalk in the exaggerated budgetary landscape today. The first two films were considered successful because they at least recovered their money. “Rush Hour 3”, however, did not even recover half of their investment with its crude 258 million dollars at the box office. I am sure that a large part of inflation had to see with the pay days, because Tucker received $ 25 million, while Chan collected $ 15 million (Via Variety).

Receiving a higher budget for a series of a successful film is not uncommon, but Chan has the right idea when it comes to spending too much money. Have fewer resources at your disposal often leads to finding creative solutions to bypass what the film do to have. Budget inflation generally leads to a reflection and therefore, creates more problems than they were counting. If “Rush Hour 3” cost as much as the second film, it would probably have been considered a monetary success, at the very least. The problems of this third film, however, go beyond how much it costs.

After “Rush Hour 2” took the pair in Lee’s home law at Hong Kong, “Rush Hour 3” transports them to Paris to find a collective of Chinese gangsters involved in a high -level assassination. With six years since the last film, one might think that they would take the time to make it even better, but the film is such a boring mess with a lot of most lazy and insipid jokes in the franchise. As a person who is mainly lukewarm on the “Rush Hour” franchise, but respects the Chan / Tucker twinning, even me, I could feel that their collaboration already worked on smoke and that the magic had almost disappeared.

I avoided talking about Brett Ratner, despite himself, announcing the three films “Hour Rush” because he has become a toxic figure in the cinema community. At best, he is a mediocre filmmaker behind such Memorable hits As “Tour de Tour” and “Hercules” and, at worst, a man with many disturbing sexual assault allegations who have put pressure against him. He certainly puts a cloud on the “Pointe” films.

In addition to being led by an industry flumant, “Rush Hour 3” also presents Roman Polanski in a deeply uncomfortable cameo as a French police officer who moleste Lee and Carter when they arrived in Paris. It is a really cursed film by and through it is not even funny enough to keep the double factor from Flémé.

After the critical disappointments and at the box office of the third film, the “Rush Hour” franchise was largely stagnated, with the only developments that came out of recent memory is the terrible short-lived television series CBS in 2015 and a rumor that “Rush Hour 4” which seems unlikely to occur. It is probably for the best to leave Rattner behind, as well as a franchise that has never been better than the first surprise film.