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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime; With: Jackie Chan, Joe Lovano and Chris Tucker
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

RUSH HOUR (PG-13) Chris Tucker, the only performer worth watching in this rubbishy generic action comedy, is a verbal speed freak, spewing entire sentences -- sometimes two at once -- in a single frenzied thought blast. At times, he flirts with turning himself into a scamp minstrel show. Yet even that he does knowingly -- satirically. Tucker's bad-boy cop is paired with a Chinese superagent played by Jackie Chan. The two characters barely even have a relationship; they're a union of demographics -- the urban market meets the slapstick-action market. Chan deserves better, but then, he's had better. Tucker is another story, a dervish of a comic who has practically been baptized in cliches yet who always brings a touch of original madness to them. C-


Posted Oct 02, 1998
 

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