This is Tucker, a phenomenon in his own right: He has no martial arts prowess but does have one of those manic plastic faces whose various orifices leak splats of noise even as he is improvising against the script. The FBI, the inevitable organization of dreary white men in suits, seeks to cool him out in some backwater, so it dredges up the most incompetent detective on the LAPD to baby-sit him. Chan plays a Hong Kong inspector seconded to Los Angeles when the child of a prominent Chinese diplomat is kidnapped.
CHRIS ROCK AND JACKIE CHAN FILM RUSH HOUR 2 MOVIE
The movie here is routine enough, and no plot summary can do its body pyrotechnics true justice. I have yet to figure out how he can seem to change direction in midair it shouldn't be doable, not without computer morphing, but Chan is such an eel-clown of anti-gravity, he brings it off. He has moves that are so fast and subtle that they seem to deny several of Isaac Newton's more stridently defended policies. But he has that incredible ability to stay in character as he falls off a 40-foot building and breaks his ankle for the 19th time. In his Asian films he won't use stuntmen, and has broken nearly every bone in his body. Best of all it finds in Tucker a partner for him to play off, one who brings out his low-key charms and high-octane stunt work.Ĭhan is himself a miracle, one of the great cinematic moving targets. And the news, for Chanophiles, is good: "Rush Hour" is a sturdily entertaining vehicle, easily the little guy's best American-made film. His lost career has been relocated in "Rush Hour," a buddy picture where he matches and meshes styles with stand-up comic Chris Tucker, a kind of poor man's Chris Rock. Somehow the angelic-faced gymnast with the fantastic moves and the guts of a Green Beret just hasn't connected with American audiences. Jackie Chan, that is, who is arguably the world's most popular movie star except in the United States. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan star in "Rush Hour."
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