Line #0 YMMV/RushHour


1	!!Rush Hour (Films)
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3	* YMMV/RushHour1998
4	* YMMV/RushHour2
5	* YMMV/RushHour3
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8	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A brief moment for Carter and Lee in ''Rush Hour 3'' -- during their interrogation of a Triad member, Carter puts a gun up to the Triad's head, and [[YouWouldntShootMe when he dares Carter with "Shoot me,"]] ''he pulls the trigger'', [[DramaticAmmoDepletion only to realize the gun isn't loaded]], leading him to ask Lee for a proper magazine. It's not verified either way if Carter was [[OffingTheMouth genuinely trying to kill their captive]], [[ObfuscatingStupidity or if it was just an act]] as part of an interrogation tactic to call his bluff and show him they mean business.
9	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: All the variations of the [[https://youtu.be/8GjwoJ5C4Cg main theme]] in the movies, as composed by the legendary Music/LaloSchifrin.
10	** The first film gets a special mention due to the soundtrack earning a lot of bangers.
11	*** [[Music/EdwinStarr WAR!]] HUH! YEAH!
12	*** "[[Music/MichaelJackson Another Part of Me]]" plays during Carter's awesome dance after he blows up Clive's C4-equipped car.
13	** "[[Music/MichaelJackson Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough]]" performed by Carter.
14	** While the duet with Lee and Carter singing "The Closer I Get To You" was funny, Lee actually sings the song well. It helps that Creator/JackieChan is also a singer.
15	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Carter. Whether he's a cool and awesome CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, JerkWithAHeartOfGold CowboyCop, or he's an UncleTomFoolery whose shtick becomes more loud and obnoxious in both sequels. Creator/RogerEbert's [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rush-hour-2-2001 unkind review]] of the second movie specifically cited Tucker's performance as ruining the film for him. It should probably be noted that Carter isn't really ''that'' much different from his actor Chris Tucker, mind.
16	* CriticalDissonance: The second film was a big box office hit, but was met with mixed reception by critics (52% on Rotten Tomatoes). Creator/RogerEbert in particular hated the film, giving it only 1 1/2 stars, saying that Chris Tucker was unfunny and dominated every scene, calling out the "accuse the dealer of being racist" scene as particularly cringeworthy.
17	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Enjoyed bigger success in Asia because of Creator/JackieChan.
18	* HarsherInHindsight:
19	** In Canada, the movie aired on TV a few years after its initial release. The next morning after its airing, a little Chinese girl was kidnapped in Toronto. Unlike the movie, [[DownerEnding there was no happy ending]].
20	** In the third movie, Carter poses as a costume designer to enter a women's dressing room and trick them into taking their clothes off. In 2016, Donald Trump came under fire for boasting about using his position to peek in on women who were participating in his beauty pageants.
21	** The costume designer scene, along with Bloopers in ''Rush Hour 3'' featuring Jackie Chan repeating various lines fed to him by Brett Ratner referencing increasingly vulgar pornographic jokes would fall here in 2017, after Ratner was accused of sexual harassment by several women, including one incident where he followed a woman into the women's bathroom without invitation. This caused Creator/WarnerBros to sever ties with him.
22	** Carter's CowboyCop antics look a lot less amusing with how much attention is now being paid towards police brutality in the U.S.
23	* HilariousInHindsight:
24	** In the HilariousOuttakes of ''Rush Hour 2'', Creator/ChrisTucker's phone goes off while shooting a scene, making Jackie chastise both him and the caller. In ''Film/ShanghaiKnights'', we see in its HilariousOuttakes that ''Jackie's'' phone goes off while shooting a scene.
25	** Speaking of, one of the first things Carter does with Lee is show him the footprints, handprints, and signature of Creator/JohnWayne which, as any fan of the ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'' movies will tell you, is “a terrible name for a cowboy!”
26	** Also in the HilariousOuttakes of ''Rush Hour 2'', after the BigBad Ricky Tan falls to his death:
27	--->'''Carter''': Damn! He ain't gonna be in ''Rush Hour 3''!
28	** Creator/ZhangZiyi and Youki Kudoh both play {{Dark Action Girl}}s in the sequels, as both actresses have appeared together in ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha''. [[HarsherInHindsight Ironically]], Kudoh's character being less popular then Ziyi's character in the said film reflects on how the third film (which had featured Kudoh) was less well-received then the first and second films (which the second had featured Ziyi).
29	** Creator/KenLeung and Creator/MarkRolston, who both appeared in the first film, would later be part of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise. Leung played the character of Steven Sing (whose last name is worded similarly to Leung's ''Rush Hour'' character Sang, just with the second letter of "a" replaced with "i") in the [[Film/SawI first 2004 film]], while Rolston would later play Dan Erickson in the [[Film/SawV fifth]] and [[Film/SawVI sixth]] films.
30	** In ''3'' when Carter tells Lee that he can't be black because there's a height requirement. [[Creator/KevinHart Yeah, right]].
31	* MemeticMutation: "DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?!"
32	* MoralEventHorizon: Sang definitely crosses it when he terrifyingly kidnaps Soo Yung, killing her drivers as well.
33	* OneSceneWonder:
34	** The CampGay store attendant in ''Rush Hour 2'' is played by Jeremy Piven.
35	** Also Creator/DonCheadle and his surprisingly close Cantonese and remarkable martial arts display.
36	** Sun Mingming as the FriendlyEnemy GiantMook who manages to CurbStompBattle Carter '''and''' Lee during the dojo scene in ''Rush Hour 3''. The WhosOnFirst nature of his name helps.
37	** The nun in ''3'' who serves as a translator for the interrogation of a French-speaking thug and has to engage in a lot of TactfulTranslation.
38	* RetroactiveRecognition:
39	** Creator/JohnHawkes has a brief role in the first film.
40	** Creator/KenLeung (of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' fame, as well as other Creator/BrettRatner films such as ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'') plays Sang, and even does the film's TitleDrop.
41	** [[Creator/DonCheadle War Machine]] briefly fights Lee in ''Rush Hour 2''.
42	** Creator/RexLinn as an FBI agent in the first film.
43	* {{Sequelitis}}: The third wasn't received that well.
44	* SpiritualSuccessor: To the 1997 film ''Drive'', starring Mark Dacascos, a woefully underrated (and relatively unknown) action film from TheNineties. Brett Ratner even admitted that the only reason ''Rush Hour'' got made without legal complications is that almost no one knows it exists. Fans of ''Rush Hour'' and action films in general should definitely check it out, but ''only'' the Director's Cut. [[ExecutiveMeddling Long story]].
45	* TearJerker: Near the end of ''Rush Hour 3'', Kenji willingly lets himself go from Lee's grip and falls off from the Eiffel Tower to his death in order to let Lee save himself from meeting the same fate, all while Lee emits a BigNo upon seeing Kenji's sacrifice.
46	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The first movie explicitly takes place shortly after the end of British rule in UsefulNotes/HongKong, pretty firmly tying the film to the late 1990s.
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48	!!Rush Hour (TV Series)
49	* CompleteMonster: "Knock, Knock ... House Creeping!": [[{{Sadist}} Thomas "Tommy" Shea]] is a failed actor and secretly a [[AxCrazy violent psychopath]] who became a brutal SerialKiller. Kidnapping, torturing, and killing at least 7 [[WouldHitAGirl young women]]--some only teenagers--at an exclusive hotel in Los Angeles, police attempted to arrest him, at which point Shea opened heavy fire on them and wounded an officer before sadistically killing Captain Cole's lover. Next, to avoid arrest, Shea set his hotel room on fire to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]], gloating about how no one's gonna miss his victims, let alone find them. After 12 years, Shea resurfaces after kidnapping another young woman named Destiny Lamb. However, it's revealed he already killed several other young women in the last five years, burning their remains until only bone was left. When he is found to still be alive, Shea attempts to kill Cole, Lee, Carter, and Destiny when they find her, beating Lee to the ground and attempting to shoot Cole before the latter shoots him.
50	* GrowingTheBeard: The first episode was a poorly condensed version of the original movie's plot, but the other episodes after that have improved.
51	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Considering how another CBS show, "We Are Men", got cancelled after only ''two'' episodes, it's satisfying that the show got to air its last episodes and that the show ended with all subplots resolved, with no cliffhangers.
52	* QuestionableCasting: Many people don't like Jon Foo as Lee, mainly due to his accent for the character. Also, many people miss Tucker and Chan. On the plus side, people like how more competent Carter is.
53	* {{Squick}}: A thug gets impaled by a firepoker in one episode.

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